Fiji's opposition wants Chinese visa free access suspended Featured
23 August, 2017. The opposition in Fiji has called for the suspension of visa free entry for China's nationals following the deportation of 77 fraud suspects to China this month.
Seventy-seven people, accused of running an online scam targeting people in China, were rounded up and flown from Nadi on the fourth of August.
Chinese nationals staying for less than 30 days don't need visas under a scheme brought in just over two years ago.
But SODELPA's defence spokesperson Mosese Bulitavu said the people of Fiji are in the dark about how the policy's monitored.
"Businesses which have been set up in Fiji, we don't know the real background and the background of people coming in and going out, whether they are involved with hard drugs, whether it's money laundering or whether they are agents of human trafficking. These are bigger and broader issues that will affect Fiji's national security."
Mr Bulitavu said the government should to review the programme.
He said the public needed to know whether the policy had contributed to a rise in crime, an increase in organised crime, a rise in property prices and "other social ills."
"Past Governments have always declined Chinese Government's requests for a visa-free agreement with Fiji not only because of the well known threats of Chinese criminal elements finding their way into our country and using Fiji to expand their operations to other parts of the Pacific Region but principally because any such agreement with China, with over a billion people, would be heavily biased or lopsided against Fiji with a population of just over 800,000 people," said Mr Bulitavu.
-RNZI
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fakahela ena ia he'ikai pe ke toe ta'ofi e ha'u ta'evisa ia 'a e kau siaina ki Tonga ni he ko e fo'i mounu ia 'a e kautama ke kei faitokonia ai pe 'e Siaina hono fakapa'anga 'enau ngaahi kole 'oku fai. Mahalo na'a angalelei ai 'a Siaina 'o fakapa'anga 'a e paaka 'i Popua lol
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Kuo a'u a Fisi ki ai pea koena kuo nau 'ilo hono ngaahi nunu'a. Tu'u atu e palemia Tonga ia 'o fa'ifa'itaki kia Bainimarama he fakangofua e hu ta'evisa mai 'ae kau siaina, pea ko ena kuo kamata ke 'asi hono ngaahi nanunga - fu'u tokolahi e hu noa'ia mai 'ae matakali,, 'ikai ke lava 'o monitor 'enau ngaahi ngaue 'oku fai heni, lahi 'enau 'asi 'o ngaue he ngaahi falekoloa siaina kae fakamaloloo'i e kau ngaue Tonga, ka 'oku 'ikai foki ke nau 'I heni 'iha visa ngaue, pea ko 'etau fou atu eni he hala 'oku lolotonga 'iai a Fisi. Mahalo 'e tokosi'i e toko 77 faihia ia 'I Fisi 'iha f'u kau faihia 'I Tonga ni. Pea tuku foki e fa'ifa'itaki ia kia Bainimarama he 'e tu'utamaki ai hotau fonua.
Ko ena kuo tala 'ehe Palemia Ha'amoa te nau fa'u e lao ke malu'i'aki e fanga ki'i falekoloa iiki (retail shops) ke kei ma'u pe 'ehe kakai totonu 'o Ha'amoa. Ako mei Ha'amoa PM Pohiva 'o malu'i e ngaahi pisinisi Tonga mei hono fa'ao fakamalohi 'ehe kau siaina. -
'Oku ha'i foki kitautolu ia ki he ngaahi konivesio mo e aleapau fakavaha'apule'anga, pea ko e ta'ota'ofi e hu mai ha matakali kehe ki hono fonua, ko e tafa'aki ia o e LAO, ke maalohi aupito. 'Oku taumu'a kehekehe pe foki e 'alu ia ha taha ki ha fonua, ka ko e konga ke fai kiai e sio, talu enau i Fisi mo hono fakalele enau ngaahi ngaue ta'efakalao, Oku fefe ngaahi Lao a Fisi? Nae ikai ke malava ai kene malu'i kinautolu? Fefe fau e malava lelei ke operate enau ngaahi ngaue 'i Fisi ta'e fai ha hu'uhu'u mo ha fakatotolo ki he ngaahi ngaue kehe, tukukehe ange kapau ne totongi'i pe ka ofisiale ia kenau hangahanga kehe.
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Kataki mu'a Etita 'o fakatonga'i e fo'i article mahu'inga koeni, ke fakamaama si'otau kainga ki he ngaahi uhinga lelei oku totonu ai ke ta'ota'ofi 'aki 'a e mahua noa'ia mai e matakali mei muli hange ko e ha'u ta'e visa koeni mei Siaina, he oku ne 'omi 'a e ngaahi palopolema te ne uesia lahi etau nofo. Oku ou tui oku lolotonga hoko pee 'i Tonga ni, kaa na'a tau toki hahaka hake kuo tomui, o hange ko e lau 'a e tohi koeni, ka mahua mai e lau miliona mei Siaina 'o overtake hotau ki'i tokolahi ko e tahakilu tupu pee, koe haa nai e me'a 'e hoko. Ko e ha'u ta'evisa ko e halaloto'api mo'oni, huu maiai mo e kau faihia, faito'o kona tapu, tamate mo e toitoi'anga e kakai faikovi. Maloo kuo kamata ke 'aa mai 'a Fisi ki he ngaahi palopolema koeni 'o e free visa entry.