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A multi-million dollar project to restore Ha’apai’s electricity network, after it was wrecked by Tropical Cyclone Ian in early 2014, was completed recently. Tonga Power Ltd reported that Cyclone Ian left 971 customers without electricity, and damaged 90% of the network lines, 65% of transformers, and a generator. The rebuilding project provided equal opportunity for women and men in the workforce.

Tonga is looking to lift labour standards by becoming the 187th member of the International Labour Organization (ILO) this year, effective from 24 February 2016.

Tonga’s 'Aloma Johansson is one of several women on the new Oceania Rugby Board, one of six regional associations of World Rugby and representing 16 Member Unions to promote the growth of rugby in the region.

We are all accountable every time every time a woman or girl is a target of violence - and raising awareness is important to ensure equal protection under the law and equitable access to justice, stated a briefing for local journalists on Thursday, 3 March in Nuku’alofa.

More than half a million pa’anga was committed by the Government of Japan to fund the upgrade of school classrooms at Vaololoa and Veitonga, as well as a water supply system for Navutoka, in Tongatapu on Thursday, 3 March.

Tonga is leading the way in business leadership training for women. Fifteen professional women in Tonga completed a "Women's Business Leadership Program" conducted by the Asian Development Bank, and were presented with certificates on Wednesday, 2 March at Davina House.

The Tonga Development Bank plans to launch new commercial services this month, including foreign exchange and internet banking, as part of a three year expansion programme that began in 2014.

Pita Nikolas Taufatofua is the first Tongan to qualify for the Rio Olympic in August after he won a gold medal in the Taekwondo Oceania Olympic Qualification Tournament in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Saturday, 27 February.

On 29 February, Tongatapu produced all of Tonga’s 2016 Leap Year babies, with the arrivals of four boys and five girls, known as "leaplings" because they will have their real birthday only every four years. Photos by Linny Folau