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Tonga is eager to learn from your experiences and share your knowledge, HM King Tupou VI told members of parliament from Commonwealth countries when he opened the 2012 mid-year Executive Meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at the Fa'onelua Convention Centre, Nuku'alofa this morning.

The first sitting of Tonga's Court of Appeal for this year started on April 16-27 and will hear eight appeal cases, at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa.

Imagine a coconut tree surviving in a bottle small enough to hide in the palm of your hand. Amazing, isn’t it? Yet this is not magic but an advancement of science that has made possible the preservation and maintenance of clean, pure varieties of our traditional staple food crops. The Centre for Pacific Crops and Trees aims to assist Pacific Island countries and territories to conserve the region’s genetic resources by keeping collections of many plants with priority given to the region’s staple crops: varieties of taro, yam, sweet potato, banana, cassava and breadfruit. - Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC).

FROM OUR ARCHIVES: Tonga's political reform introduced an elected government for Tonga in 2010 when constituencies voted for their favourite personalities, but the process lacks vision, according to one of the architects of the reform. Dr Sitiveni Halapua believes that Tonga's new electoral system needs to be revised, so that when a new government is elected into power, it should already have a clear vision of where they are taking Tonga. Interview by Pesi Fonua.

The global economy must help deliver the right type of growth and the jobs that people need. That is not happening on the scale needed right now and therefore some fundamental issues need to be addressed, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said in an address to the Brookings Institute, on April 12, when she called on strengthened cooperation and a strengthened IMF to help take advantage of "the tectonic shifts taking place in the global economy", and to achieve equitable and inclusive growth.

Four of seven Chief Executive Officer positions for a new structure of Government have been decided by the Public Service Commission.

With just over two months before a new structure of the Tonga Government is implemented on 1 July, 2012, it is now proposed there will be 14 line Ministries, which will include a new Ministry of Revenue.

The election of seven members of the Board of Directors to manage Tonga's first National Retirement Benefits Fund NRBF will be held on April 26, according to Ikapote Tavalea, an adviser on Retirement Benefits Fund to the Ministry of Finance.

The Chief Secretary and the Secretary to Cabinet, Busby Kautoke has been suspended from his post by the Public Service Commission PSC, according to the Acting Chief Secretary and Chief Secretary to Cabinet Alfred Soakai.