Fiji's prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced on Tuesday that his country will dump the Union Flag (better known as the Union Jack by most people) from its national flag, the Telegraph reports.

The South Pacific nation of Fiji has launched a competition for a new national flag. The current flag, adopted in 1970 following independence from Britain, is blue with the Union Jack in the left ...

SUVA, Fiji, Feb. 3 (UPI) --Fiji will get a new flag without colonial emblems, such as the Union Jack, and more symbolic of the country, its Prime Minister announced Tuesday. The current flag is light ...

FIJI could become the 51st former member of the British Empire to change its flag and still keep its Commonwealth membership. Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama said his country planned to remove ...

Fiji's Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama announced Tuesday that the country will hold a competition to redesign its national flag. The move is an effort to remove symbols of Fiji's colonial past, ...

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There have been moves to change the Fijian national flag, seen here burnt at a recent protest.(Getty Images: Simon Watts) A key link to a country's history and heritage, or a dated symbol of past ...