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A crowd of around 200 New Year's visitors remain onshore at Tonga’s remote Niuatoputapu Island today, as Severe Tropical Cyclone Ian is expected to track across the ferry route between Niuatoputapu and southern Tonga, intensifying into a Category 4 storm over the next two days.

Tonga’s Cabinet this afternoon supported the Prime Minister’s call for the resignation of the Minister of Finance, Hon. Lisiate ‘Akolo - who is refusing to stand down, after commenting on radio recently about a 5% salary rise for civil servants.

Twenty-two cruise ships visits are expected to islands in Tonga this year 2014, a growth from the seventeen visits made last year.

The Lo'au University, Tonga’s first online virtual university, was officially launched yesterday, January 6, by the Minister of Education, Hon. Dr 'Ana Taufe'ulungaki at the Lopaukamea II Hall, University of the South Pacific Campus, Ha‘ateiho.

An anti-whaling organisation, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has today reported the sighting of whale poachers inside the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary (an area of the Pacific Ocean near Antarctica).

Samoa has been granted US$14.6 Million by the World Bank to improve the resistance of coastal communities against natural disasters.

Bishop Soane Lilo Foliaki SM (80), who served as the Catholic Bishop of Tonga and Niue from 1994 until 2008, died in Nuku‘alofa on Christmas Eve.

Four babies were born in Tonga’s hospitals on New Year's morning, the first at Ngu Hospital, Vavau, and three at Vaiola Hospital in Tongatapu.

The Inaugural “South Pacific Islands Christmas in the Park 2013” on Saturday December 14 in Brisbane, Australia, brought a South Pacific twist to a community Christmas celebration with dances and prayers. Matangi Tonga Online reader, Sulieni Layt shares photos of the event that has won three-year funding support from the Brisbane City Council's community festivals program. [Matangi Tonga Online readers: Please send us your photos of the festive season, from wherever you are around the world- Editor]