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Tuesday 24 April 2012 9:47am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : FROM OUR ARCHIVES, 24 April 2012. Two Tongan grandmothers who attended India's Barefoot College last year, have returned home with new skills ready to start installing new solar panels to provide electricity in under-privileged homes in their swampland community of 'Isileli. FROM OUR ARCHIVES, 24 April 2012. -
Monday 23 April 2012 11:05am
Manila, Philippines : In the Western Pacific Region, two to three million people per year contract diseases that could be prevented by immunization. These diseases cause severe illness and, in some cases, death, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated in launching World Immunization Week on April 23.
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Saturday 21 April 2012 8:49am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Government this afternoon announced the reassignment of four of its Cabinet Ministers effective on 1 May.1 comment Premium content -
Saturday 21 April 2012 8:41am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An Air New Zealand flight to Auckland was delayed an hour from departing Fua'amotu International Airport this afternoon, due to a breach in security, after two passengers boarded through the VIP area and had not been properly screened. Premium content -
Saturday 21 April 2012 8:31am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Singer Spawnbreezie is in Nuku'alofa and will perform a concert tonight at 'Api Fo'ou College Hall, in Ma'ufanga. Premium content -
Thursday 19 April 2012 6:37pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Government is understood to have reshuffled six of its Cabinet Ministers this month but they have not taken up their new portfolios. Premium content -
Thursday 19 April 2012 6:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Charles Cato of New Zealand is to join the Supreme Court of Tonga as its third judge, after his appointment was confirmed by the King in Council on April 4. Premium content -
Wednesday 18 April 2012 7:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 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. Premium content -
Tuesday 17 April 2012 4:50pm
Washington, USA : Dr. Jim Yong Kim, in response to his selection by the World Bank's Executive Directors as 12th President of the World Bank, spoke of a global consensus around the importance of inclusive growth in a rapidly changing world. He believed there was a need to foster an institution that responds effectively to the needs of its diverse clients and donors, and among other things, "amplifies the voices of developing countries". Premium content -
Tuesday 17 April 2012 3:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 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. Premium content -
Tuesday 17 April 2012 11:52am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Hon Simon Tu'ivakano celebrated his first birthday on Saturday, April 14, at Tau'akiloto, Kolofo'ou, Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
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). Premium content -
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
