Results for Pacific Islands

Miss Cook Islands, Miss Krystina Elizabeth Kauvai (19) was crowned, Miss South Pacific Pageant 2006 in Apia, Samoa, on Saturday night.

Making its first footprint in the Pacific Islands with the launch of its new GSM mobile network in Samoa today, a new provider, Digicel, aimed to make an impression that won'’t be lost on the shores of even the smallest islands, calling this the start of a "“Pan-Pacific rollout of state of the art communications."

Tongan-born Pes Fa'’aui has received one of New Zealand's highest bravery awards.

Tonga has today requested a postponement of the Pacific Forum meeting it was to host in October, because of concern over the increasingly frail health of the King of Tonga.

There will be very little change to the U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Pacific, a US foreign policy advisor, Charles B. Salmon Jr., told a Tongan audience in a public lecture on June 28 at the University of the South Pacific 'Atele Campus. Photos by Pesi Fonua

Japan's Emperor Akihito received Pacific leaders including Tonga's Hon. Dr Feleti Sevele, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for PALM 2006.

Six Tongan companies participated in the Pacific Islands Exhibition 2006 in Tokyo, Japan, on May 25.

Australia is committed to helping Tonga with its political and economic problems, the Australian Foreign Minister, the Hon. Alexander Downer, told the press in Nuku'alofa on Friday, April 21.

The Australian government is willing to support the process of political reform in Tonga, and will make a "substantial financial contribution" to support the newly formed National Committee for Political Reform chaired by Prince Tu'ipelehake, the Australian High Commissioner to Tonga said in his Australia Day speech yesterday evening.