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Tonga marked the World Red Cross Day 2012 on May 8 under a theme "Youth on the Move", and recruited 80 new volunteers to carry out its humanitarian work of assisting people who are most vulnerable.

A USD 1.7 million dollar project to conserve island biodiversity in the Cook Islands, Nauru, Tonga and Tuvalu was launched at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in Apia, Samoa.

Seventeen men were arrested over the weekend in relation to a range of robberies in Nuku‘alofa, including a violent robbery at the Tau'olunga Komipiuta in Fasi mo e Afi, but police are calling on the community to step up their neighbourhood watch with an effective response to help in the fight against crime.

Tonga's King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau'u left Tonga on Saturday May 5 to attend special events in London, to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

After years of living with candle-light, two families in the Sopu area of Nuku‘alofa, were overjoyed to receive the first electric lights in their homes, after a Tongan grandmother Siutiti Halatoa (51) who trained in solar engineering in India last year, installed the first solar panels under a community led project, this morning May 8.

Justice Robert Shuster has his final day on the bench today, May 7 after being a judge of the Supreme Court of Tonga during the past four years, and have presided over 800 cases.

Rev. Dr Tevita Havea was elected as the chairman of the National Retirement Benefits Scheme and Dr Sione Leimoni Taufu'i as its Chief Executive Officer, at the first meeting of the board of directors on May 2 at the office of the National Reserve Bank.

Japan, as a development partner on an equal footing, has been working together with PICs in their nation building. "Kizuna," or the bond of friendship between Japan and PICs is deeply rooted in the fact that we share the same Pacific Ocean and the common spirits of islanders nurtured by this great Ocean.

World Press Freedom Day (today, May 3) is our opportunity to raise the flag in the fight to advance media freedom. We call on States, professional media and non-governmental organisations everywhere to join forces with the United Nations to promote online and offline freedom of expression in accordance with internationally accepted principles. This is a pillar of individual rights, a foundation for healthy societies and a force for social transformation.