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Monday 18 June 2012 6:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Recognising a health crisis that is reducing the life expectancy of both men and women in Tonga, the Ministry of Health has partnered with the Ministry of Sports and Tonga's Netball Association in a new programme that aims to encourage healthier and more active lifestyles for people of all ages.
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Monday 18 June 2012 2:49pm
Neiafu, Vava'u : Heavy swells and uncertainties over fuel has kept search vessels in port today, but a search for two missing sailors in Vava'u is expected to resume tomorrow, Tuesday. Photos by Bonny Stansel. Premium content -
Monday 18 June 2012 11:57am
Australia. : I am the partner of one of the missing sailors. I want anyone concerned with the search to know that the cost of fuel for the search must not be an impediment to the search continuing. I will raise the money to pay, I pledge that sincerely. I want my beloved to come home. I am beside myself with grief and fear of losing him. - Sue Love Premium content -
Monday 18 June 2012 6:30am
Salt Lake City, Utah : Late Island's coastline is rugged for landing by large boats, but a dinghy could find a suitable landing place on the northern shorelines. I was stranded on Late Island for a week with two Vava'u strangers as guides when I was 18 years old. - Sione Ake-mei-hakau Mokofisi. -
Monday 18 June 2012 12:45am
Neiafu, Vava'u : While a search for two missing yachtsmen has stalled in Vava'u, Tonga, today, Sunday, searchers still held out a glimmer of hope that the men may have reached the rugged coastline of the uninhabited Late Island where their yacht "Navillus" was reportedly "shredded" after becoming grounded on Thursday night.2 comments Premium content -
Saturday 16 June 2012 5:06pm
Neiafu, Vava'u : Debris with the name of a missing yacht was found in Tongan waters this morning according to marine-radio reports coming from boats searching waters around Late, a small isolated volcanic island, south west of Vava'u, Tonga. Premium content -
Saturday 16 June 2012 4:21pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A homicide investigation is underway in Nuku'alofa after the body of a 44-year-old shopkeeper was found in his premises in the CBD on Friday evening. Premium content -
Friday 15 June 2012 8:16pm
Port Vila, Vanuatu : The European Union is committed to conclude comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements EPAs with the Pacific region, said the President of the European Union Council and Danish Minister for Development Cooperation, Christian Friis Bach. By Linny Folau in Port Vila. Premium content -
Friday 15 June 2012 5:32pm
Port Vila, Vanuatu : The current 37th Session of the ACP-EU Joint Council of Ministers Meeting from June 14-15, is discussing issues that will define relations of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group and the European Union for the future. By Linny Folau in Port Vila. Premium content -
Friday 15 June 2012 4:09pm
Canberra, Australia : Australia is the largest single ultimate destination for Chinese direct investment, and though Australia is a relatively small economy, it is likely to remain one of China's largest foreign investment destinations for a while to come. At the same time, the scale and pace of growth in Chinese direct investment has led to populist reactions that have challenged the open investment regime in Australia and, in particular, raised policy questions about whether investments by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) need to be treated differently from private investment. By Peter Drysdale, Australia National University. Premium content -
Friday 15 June 2012 3:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Immigration New Zealand in Nuku'alofa is alerting the public to a scam in Auckland that is selling "visas" for New Zealand. Premium content -
Friday 15 June 2012 11:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A project to reduce the cost of sending remittances from New Zealand and Australia to Tonga and seven other Pacific islands is succeeding, Kim Hailwood and Jonathan Capal of Developing Markets Associates Ltd, said in Tonga on Wednesday, June 13. Premium content -
Thursday 14 June 2012 5:17pm
Port Vila, Vanuatu : The African, Caribbean and Pacific Group has responded in solidarity to the concern and frustration voiced by its Pacific member states over an apparent lack of commitment from the European Union to conclude comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements. By Linny Folau in Port Vila. Premium content -
Thursday 14 June 2012 5:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The signing of a lease agreement for the University of the South Pacific to lease 14 acres of Tonga government land on Saturday, June 9, marked the beginning of an expansion of the operation of the USP in Tonga.1 comment Premium content -
Wednesday 13 June 2012 12:20pm
Port Vila, Vanuatu : The Pacific States of ACP strongly voiced frustrations over an apparent lack of commitment by the European Union to conclude comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreements for a free trade area with the Pacific region, during the 95th Session of the ACP Council of Ministers Meeting on June 12. By Linny Folau in Port Vila. Premium content -
Tuesday 12 June 2012 5:05pm
Port Vila, Vanuatu : The 95th Session of the ACP Council of Ministers Meeting was opened on June 11, with an emphasis to reinvent ACP as a group to ensure a more solid relationship with the European Union and become a world player under a changing global landscape. Premium content -
Tuesday 12 June 2012 3:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tongan graduates from the University of the South Pacific celebrated their graduation in Tonga for the first time on Saturday June 9. Premium content -
Monday 11 June 2012 10:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Under 20 National Rugby Team left this morning, June 11 to participate in the IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy tournament to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Premium content -
Monday 11 June 2012 3:53pm
Port Vila, Vanuatu : More than 300 officials from the European Union and the Group of African, Caribbean and Pacific States will convene this week in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu for one of the most important meetings of the year between the two groups. Premium content -
Sunday 10 June 2012 11:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two triathletes from the Friendly Islands Triathlon (FIT), 'Alo Fe'iloakitau and Kantaro Oishi will be competing in the 2012 Baramon King Goto Nagasaki International Triathlon at Goto City, Fukue Island, Nagasaki, Japan on June 17. Premium content
