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Tuesday 17 April 2012 10:31am
Suva, Fiji : 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).
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Monday 16 April 2012 9:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 2012 mid-year Executive Meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association CPA will be opened by HM King Tupou VI at the Fa'onelua Convention Centre, Nuku'alofa on Wednesday April 18. Premium content -
Monday 16 April 2012 8:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 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.1 comment Premium content -
Saturday 14 April 2012 5:04am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Samoan singer, Spawnbreezie will arrive in Tonga on April 18 to perform a number of concerts in Nuku'alofa.1 comment Premium content -
Friday 13 April 2012 9:30am
Washington, USA : 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. Premium content -
Friday 13 April 2012 6:42am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 2012 Heilala Festival will run for 12 days from July 16-28, and according Tonga's Ministry of Tourism, will be shorter than usual because of the death of HM King George Tupou V. Premium content -
Thursday 12 April 2012 10:18pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four of seven Chief Executive Officer positions for a new structure of Government have been decided by the Public Service Commission. Premium content -
Thursday 12 April 2012 10:46am
'Ohonua, 'Eua : The MV Manui, a three-tones cargo vessel rolled over on its side at the Nafanua Harbour, 'Eua at mid-day yesterday, 11 April.1 comment Premium content -
Wednesday 11 April 2012 9:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 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. Premium content -
Wednesday 11 April 2012 3:42pm
Manila, Philippines : Economic growth in the Pacific region is expected to slow to 6.0% in 2012, decelerating further to 4.1% in 2013, while inflation is expected to hold at moderate levels in much of the Pacific, according to the Asian Development Outlook 2012, released today by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Premium content -
Tuesday 10 April 2012 11:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 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.3 comments Premium content -
Tuesday 10 April 2012 6:15pm
Suva, Fiji : The Pacific Trade office in China has indicated that up to 20 Chinese buyers are interested in attending the inaugural Trade Pasifika 2012 (TP2012). The main areas of their interest are in forestry, fisheries and agricultural products. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 April 2012 2:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 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.1 comment Premium content -
Tuesday 10 April 2012 6:30am
Vienna, Austria : Niue signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) today, becoming the 183rd country to do so. Tibor Tóth, Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), said: "I welcome Niue to the CTBT family of nations. Niue's signature of the CTBT consolidates the Pacific region's firm stand against nuclear testing and closes the door on nuclear testing a bit further. I also hope that this step will serve to encourage other Pacific Island States that have not yet done so to sign and or ratifiy the Treaty at the earliest opportunity." Premium content -
Saturday 7 April 2012 8:16pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The opportunity to enroll at the Open Schooling classes of the USP Campus, Tonga "was a dream come true", for Fine Feuiaki and Mafua Kiokata, two paraplegic patients at Vaiola Hospital.1 comment Premium content -
Thursday 5 April 2012 9:55pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Crown Prince Tupouto'a 'Ulukalala and other members of the Tongan Royal Family had a ceremonial haircut this afternoon, to mark the end of the first 10 nights of mourning for the late King George Tupou V. Photos by Linny Folau. Premium content -
Thursday 5 April 2012 9:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Lord Sevele, who was Tonga's Prime Minister for five years, from February 2006 to December 2011, during the planning and the implementation of the Political Reform Program, has described HM the late King George Tupou V as "a visionary leader and a man of substance," who further democratized Tonga's Constitutional Monarchy system of government by surrendering to parliament some of his executive power. Interview by Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Thursday 5 April 2012 6:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The nobles of the Ha'a Ngata, a clan from which the Tu'i Kanokupolu descended, performed a funeral ritual known as "ha'amo" - the presentation of food baskets, to HRH Princess Pilolevu Tuita at her residence Mahinafekite this morning, April 5. Premium content -
Wednesday 4 April 2012 6:35pm
Pangai, Ha'apai : An inquest held this morning found that a 12-year-old boy Ha'apai High School student who died from severe chest wounds last week, had stabbed himself. Premium content -
Tuesday 3 April 2012 10:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A plan to launch the newly reconstructed Vuna Wharf by the late King George Tupou V on 18 April to coincide with the arrival at the new wharf of its first cruise ship has been postponed to June, according to Mosese Lavemai, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nuku'alofa Port Authority. Premium content
