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An eight -members group of volunteers from the South Pacific Animal Welfare SPAW are finishing off a month long animal care clinics that was launched after they arrived in Tonga on February 7.

The Government of New Caledonia and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) have signed three agreements today to fund interventions to reduce public health risks resulting from contaminated drinking water, inadequate sanitation and drought. - SPC.

In a world that has 1.6 billion people who are overweight, the biggest challenge to mobilizing action against hunger is that hunger is becoming invisible in places, "and in a world exploding with prosperity and possibility we have become morally bankrupt, we have lost the sense of compassion. . .," UN Messenger of Peace HRH Princess Haya Al Hussein said this weekend, appealing to leaders who can make a difference for the rural poor. - By Mary Lyn Fonua

Ministers and senior officials responsible for promoting women's empowerment and gender equality in the Commonwealth will meet in New York from 19-20 February 2011. - Commonwealth Secretariat.

Slide photographs of holes and advanced rusting on various parts of the MV Princess Ashika were shown to the jury in the Supreme Court, Nuku'alofa yesterday, February 16, the third day of the one-month trial.

A Senior Marine Engineer who surveyed the MV Princess Ashika vessel in Nuku'alofa on July 2, 2009 told the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa yesterday, February 15, that the vessel was not good because it was full of holes and was heavily rusted.

Tonga's official Foreign Reserves fell by $12.3 million from $177.5 million to $165.2 million in January 2011.

Switzerland has frozen whatever assets Hosni Mubarak and his associates may have there, and anti-corruption campaigners are demanding the same of other countries. But experts say hunting for the deposed Egyptian leader's purported hidden wealth - let alone recovering it - will be an enormous task. - Associated Press.

Three plaintiffs from two political parties have filed a proceeding with the Supreme Court, Nuku'alofa last week, asking the Court to make a declaration on the sale of the property, 'Atalanga, in Auckland, New Zealand by His Majesty King George Tupou V.