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Following severe floods that have devastated parts of Fiji this week, ADB has expressed deepest sympathy for the people of Fiji who have lost family and friends in the disaster.

Kuo fakanofo 'a e kau memipa Komisiona ki he Komisoni Konisitutone mo Fili Fale Alea 'o Tonga 'i he 'aho 5 Sanuali 2009, pea na'e fuofua fakataha ai pe 'a e kau Komisiona 'i he 'aho 7 'o Sanuali 2009. Na'e Sea 'i he fakataha ni 'a e Tu'i Fakamaau ko Gordon Ward. Ko e kau memipa 'o e Komisoni ko 'Eiki 'Alipate Tu'ivanuavou Vaea, Dr. Sitiveni Halapua, Dr. 'Ana Taufe'ulungaki, pea mo Sione Tu'itavake Fonua.

ALAC stands for Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre. It is a new project set up by Transparency Vanuatu. ALAC provides legal advice and assistance to victims and witnesses of corruption. It helps citizens, from the unemployed to entrepreneurs, from public servants to business people, to pursue corruption-related complaints, encouraging them to come forward. ALAC observes strict client confidentiality.

There is urgent need for a national Freedom of Information Act quickly, says Transparency International Fiji chairperson, Suliana Siwatibau.

Claims about "national security" allow the military to be secretive and cover up unethical behaviour or simple incompetence, says a political scientist at the Australian National University, Peter Larmour.

The Government of Australia will provide funds totaling T$1,606,234.00, for nineteen (19) projects in Tongatapu, seventeen (17) in Ha'apai and four (4) in Vava'u as outlined in the Attachment.

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has just released its 2008 Pacific Island population estimates, with updated demographic indicators and trends for the period 2008-2030.

The US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice, has agreed to a request from Tonga's Prime Minister, Dr. Feleti V. Sevele, for applications by Tongan citizens for Non-Immigrant Visas to the United States to be lodged and processed in Nuku'alofa, during a bilateral meeting in Washington DC on May 13.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza has been confronting Taiwanese fishing boats in international waters between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia.