Tonga formally called on all Pacific nations to join a block of governments seeking a negotiating mandate to develop a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty on 12 May 2023, at the Fifth Pacific Regional Energy and Transport Ministers' Meeting in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
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Monday 22 May 2023
Port Vila, Vanuatu
Monday 22 May 2023
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Prime Minister Hon. Hu'akavameiliku joined Pacific Islands Leaders in historic back to back meetings with India and the United States on 22 May, in Papua New Guinea.
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Thursday 18 May 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
More effective, consistent government investments in the health, education, and wellbeing of Pacific people will ultimately deliver sustained economic and social benefits to the region, a new World Bank report into public spending in the Pacific has found. “If the report’s suggested reforms are implemented, Pacific countries could deliver government revenues and budget savings equivalent to between three and 43 percent of GDP. These resources could represent a unique chance for increasing education, healthcare, and other necessary public investments across the region – which would mean more opportunities and better outcomes for Pacific people,” said Stephen Ndegwa, World Bank Country Director for Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands.
Monday 8 May 2023
Sydney, Australia
The Australian and New Zealand governments have renewed their commitment to the World Bank’s work in the Pacific through an agreement to strengthen cooperation in the region over the next eight years.
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Friday 5 May 2023
Nadi, Fiji
Senior electoral officials, including Tonga's, attended the region's administrators network in Nadi from 2-4 May, the first time they have met since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Thursday 4 May 2023
Wellington, New Zealand
Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu of Tongan descent from the University of Otago won the 2022 NZ Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize - the first time for a Pacific scientist to receive the award.
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Friday 28 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Pacific Community’s (SPC) Polynesia Regional Office opened on 27 April in Nuku'alofa to serve as a hub to enhance support for Polynesian member countries.
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Wednesday 26 April 2023
Bangkok, Thailand
Multilateral cooperation and solidarity in global trade is needed more than ever as the world navigates a “polycrisis” of climate change, pandemic, economic slowdown, inflation, food insecurity, and depletion of the oceans' resources, the World Trade Organisation Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala told an outreach for Southeast Asian and Pacific journalists yesterday.
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Friday 21 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongan students met the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, Hon. Carmel Sepuloni and her delegation, during a program to create climate change awareness, held at the Falemasiva Hall, Tailulu College, Tongatapu. This was after a NZ$30 million partnership to boost and accelerate climate action across the Pacific, was announced yesterday, 20 April.
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Thursday 20 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
New Zealand reconnecting and strengthening ties with Tonga, while acknowledging the need to be united as a Pacific region in response to the many challenges we face was raised by the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Carmel Sepuloni, during a joint press conference with Prime Minister, Hon. Hu'akavameiliku on 20 April.
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Wednesday 19 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Carmel Sepuloni arrived in Tonga this evening, 19 April on the last leg of a Pacific Mission, that first visited Solomon Islands and Fiji.
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Wednesday 19 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
As Japan's PALM Ambassador, HE Mr. Takata Toshihisa visited Tonga on 17-18 April in preparation for the Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (PALM10) in Japan in 2024.
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Tuesday 18 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Young entrepreneur, Arthur Cocker of Defiant Robotics, showcased his first robot today in a demonstration for Tonga Power Limited and other parties interested in the bot fully manufactured in Tonga using 3D printing technology. This one is designed to clean solar panels.
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Tuesday 18 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Visiting Tonga yesterday, a team from Japan held an information session at the Tanoa Dateline Hotel, about a project that will provide job opportunities in Japan for Tongan youth that are seeking stable employment.
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Sunday 16 April 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The 2022 eruption of a submarine volcano in Tonga was more powerful than the largest U.S. nuclear explosion, according to a new study. A 15-megaton volcanic explosion from Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai generated a mega-tsunami with waves up to 85 meters (279 feet) high one minute after the explosion of "Blast 5", and hitting Tonga's coastlines up to 45-meters high (148 feet) at Tofua Island and waves up to 17 meters (56 feet) on Tongatapu. A new simulation in the study led by scientists at the University of Miami and the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation also suggests that the eruption location relative to urban centers saved Tonga from a worse outcome.
Wednesday 12 April 2023
Honolulu, Hawaii
HRH Princess Angelika, was welcomed on her arrival at the Brigham Young University–Hawaii campus on Tuesday, 4 April 2023, where she intends to conduct research in the Joseph F. Smith Library's Pacific Islands Research Room.
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Wednesday 22 March 2023
Auckland, New Zealand
Pacific Education Ministers are meeting for the first time in Auckland from 20-22 March to share knowledge and good practices, identify areas of action and explore innovative approaches that member countries can adopt to develop education systems in the region.
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Tuesday 21 March 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Parliamentary representatives from Tonga, Fiji, Tuvalu and Niue gathered in Nuku'alofa this morning for the opening of a three days seminar to examine the core elements of democratic governance, understand their roles and to build their capacity as parliamentarians.
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Monday 20 March 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Government of Tonga contributed $100,000 towards the Government of Vanuatu’s response to the aftermath of Severe Tropical Cyclone Judy and Kevin.
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Tuesday 14 March 2023
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Lauan chief, Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, returned to Fiji last week. The former senior officer of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces had spent almost 12-years in exile in Tonga. After fleeing Fiji, he was controversially "rescued at sea" by the Royal Tongan Navy in 2011.
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