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Some time ago I did a test to see how many cars in Nuku'alofa actually do use their direction indicators properly. While traveling through town, every time I saw a car making a turn I watched whether it had its left or right flashing light properly on, both front and rear. The results were terrible. - Firitia Velt

This kind of tragedy should never have happened, with all due respect to the Tongan Govt., they should really get to the bottom of who is responsible, and please Matangitonga, can you organise a campaigns for the people of Tonga demanding a full independent commission to call in all party involved and create transparency showing the world that this tragic incident of M/V Ashika where 90+ Tongans were dead, should have an answer to and closure, and have constructive suggestions on how to correct the system so that it would not repeat itself again in Tonga. - M. T. Tuaileva

Operation Ashika this afternoon released 37 names, on the first confirmed list of passengers and crew missing following the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika on August 5, 2009.

A grieving father, Rev. Sione Taufa (63), was thankful today after he was allowed to see his daughter Vaefetu'u Mahe (22), whose body was the second and last to be recovered after the tragic sinking of the MV Princess Ashika on August 5.

On behalf of the Tonga Red Cross Society, Westpac Bank of Tonga, ANZ Bank, MBf Bank and the Tonga Development Bank are accepting donations from the public to assist those affected by this terrible tragedy.

An underwater search team has this morning, August 12, located what appears to be the sunken vessel Princess Ashika, lying upright in 110 metres of water, at the position indicated by the emergency beacon and final radio call, 11 nautical miles south southwest of Nomuka in the Ha'apai Group.

The members of the Association of Bank's in Tonga recognise that businesses and individuals may be finding it difficult to manage their finances in what are very challenging economic times.

The gravity of the disaster of the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika and the huge loss of life is deeply mourned by all of us in Tonga and beyond, and especially by all families who lost loved ones.

Tonga police have identified the female body recovered from the sea, as 22-year-old wife and mother, Vaefetu'u Mahe (nee Taufa) of Vava'u, whose husband and child are among the 93 still missing after the sinking of MV Princess Ashika on August 5.