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Scientitsts announced today the discovery of reef structures they believe doubles the size of the Southern Atlantic Ocean's largest and richest reef system, the Abrolhos Bank, off the southern coast of Brazil's Bahia state. The newly discovered area is also far more abundant in marine life than the previously known Abrolhos reef system, one of the world's most unique and important reefs.

By the end of 2008, the Asia-Pacific region will be home to 171 million broadband subscribers, an increase of 31.5 percent over last year's 129.7 million, according to a new report released Wednesday. By Eileen Yu

In response to a request to the Government of India to extent its grant assistance to the community of the island of Hunga in Vava'u, to upgrade the island's small boat jetty, the First Secretary from the Indian High Commission in Suva undertook a joint site visit with the Hon. Governor of Vava'u, Sonatane Tu'akinamolahi Tupou to Hunga on Wednesday 2nd July 2008, to substantiate the proposal to implement the jetty upgrade immediately after the access road upgrade.

A three-day sexual minority group workshop on MSM (men who have sex with men), Transgender and HIV facilitated by the Pacific Islands AIDS Foundation ended on June 25 in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

The Fiji Media Council says it is unacceptable that a delegation from Australian Broadcasting Corporation was refused visas for the country.

Giant Microsoft Corp will not name its next operating system "Windows Fiji", the company said.

More than ten years after adoption of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, there is a dangerous stalemate on enforcement, according to a new report released today by Transparency International TI.

Following the publication last Thursday of a report by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) that is heavily critical of the World Bank's own publication "Doing Business," the ITUC has urged the Bank to definitively remove the topic of labour standards from the mandate of "Doing Business," the Bank's headline annual publication. (Editior's Note: Tonga won the latest World Bank Reformer of Year Award 2007. The selection was based on a survey conducted by the World Bank and published in its "Doing Business" report of 178 economies and ranking them for the quality of the services that they offer.)

A sustainable, dynamic, equitable, accountable and well-informed fishing industry, is the vision of a Strategic Development Plan for Economic Growth (SDPEG) that was recently developed for the Tonga Export Fisheries Association (TEFA).