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Sunday 3 June 2007 11:34am
Geneva, Switzerland : The World Health Organization (WHO) signalled the urgent need for countries to provide a network of community mental health services at its Global Forum for Community Mental Health (Geneva, 30-31 May 2007). For the first time, WHO invited people living with mental disorders to attend the Forum, sending a message to countries that it is important to give a voice to this excluded group to claim their rights and secure their participation in society.
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Friday 1 June 2007 7:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Peauafi Haukinima has resigned. Premium content -
Friday 1 June 2007 4:38pm
Ottawa, Canada : World Blood Donor Day, celebrated every year on 14 June, will this year focus on the role of safe blood transfusions in preventing maternal deaths. Premium content -
Friday 1 June 2007 9:52am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Preliminary Inquiry Hearing of five People's Representatives on sedition charges relating to events that took place in Nuku'alofa on November 14 and 16, 2006 concluded on Wednesday, May 30 at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court. Premium content -
Thursday 31 May 2007 8:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan economy should bounce back during the new financial year, HM King George Tupou V said this morning in his speech from the throne to open Tonga's 2007 parliamentary session. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 May 2007 7:18pm
Moss Beach,California, USA : In the last ten years or so, foreign aid has become reverse foreign aid; poor countries are now subsidizing rich countries. Globalization has reversed the flow of capital from poorer nations to wealthier ones. With this loan from China, Tonga may soon be subsidizing China by sending more of its (meager) wealth in the direction of China. According to the United Nations, the net transfer of capital from poorer countries to richer ones has grown from $229 billion in 2002 to $784 billion in 2006. Is this a trend Tonga wishes to join? - Mele Payne Lynch -
Wednesday 30 May 2007 6:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : After the second week-ends of the 2007 IRB Pacific Nations Cup Fiji, Samoa, Australian A and the Junior All Blacks, have registered a win each, while the 'Ikale Tahi and Japan are still searching for a victory. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 May 2007 5:30pm
Arlington-Virginia, USA : Kiribati President, The Honourable Anote Tong has been presented with an Outstanding Conservation Leadership Award by Conservation International (CI) in recognition of his global leadership in protected areas with the declaration of the Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) in March 2006. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 May 2007 5:04pm
Wellington, New Zealand : A dramatic increase in the number of sightings of unauthorized fishing vessels in the western and central Pacific Ocean in the last three months is alarming fisheries officials in the Pacific Islands region. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 May 2007 5:53am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Preliminary Inquiry Hearing of William Clive Edwards, 'Uliti Uata and 'Akilisi Pohiva on a second sedition charge started at the Nuku'alofa Police Magistrate's court yesterday morning, May 29. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 May 2007 4:33pm
Noumea, New Caledonia : What does it take to make gender equality a reality? Ministers, civil servants and representatives of donor agencies, academia and civil society tackled this tricky question at the first full day of the 10th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women, which has drawn more than 150 people to SPC's Noumea headquarters. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 May 2007 3:35pm
Auckland, New Zealand : "The cycle of corruption, coups, counter-coups and yet more corruption has proved hard to break. And there is little sign that Ivory Coast is going to prove any more able to rid itself completely of the military virus than much of the rest of Africa" (Africa Political Analysis). - David Tapiaka -
Tuesday 29 May 2007 5:37am
Sydney, Australia : I am glad to hear of the propect that the Tongan Parliament will be opened on Thursday, May 31. However, I am utterly concerned about those five PRs currently undergoing hearing-inquiry in the Court of Law for the charge of sedition in relation to the events of 16/11. To be sure, in a Law Court culprits are considered innocent until proven otherwise. The final pronouncement on their fate of course will have to await the conclusion of their trial. - Rev. Ma‘afu Palu -
Monday 28 May 2007 7:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 2007 session of the Tongan Legislative Assembly will be officially opened by His Majesty King George Tupou V on Thursday, May 31. Premium content -
Monday 28 May 2007 9:44am
Noumea, New Caledonia : A leading judge and advocate for women's rights has urged Pacific governments to put more effort into ensuring women play a full role in society, saying that a country which doesn't make the most of its women is wasting a valuable resource. -
Monday 28 May 2007 6:00am
Sydney, Australia : Although there are stacks of unanswered questions about security level on 16/11, (such as, for example, the presence of the Minister of Police and the Superintendent of the Tonga Defence Services in the PM's office on the afternoon 16/11 but with no apparent attempts to call in enforcements from their respective departments to suppress rioters who were destroying Nuku'alofa at the time and the whereabouts of the King on 16/11). Premium content -
Sunday 27 May 2007 12:00pm
London, UK : Bilateral relations between the Governments of Tonga and India were strengthened in a meeting between the Hon. Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Government of Tonga, Hon. S. Tu'a Taumoepeau Tupou and the High Commissioner of the Government of India to London, His Excellency Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, at India House in London on Friday 25 May 2007. The meeting confirmed opportunities for further development cooperation between the two countries. Premium content -
Saturday 26 May 2007 12:39pm
New Zealand : Prominent New Zealand church leader Bishop Brian Tamaki is calling on Christian-based countries to unashamedly declare their religious identity or risk losing it forever. Premium content -
Friday 25 May 2007 8:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An Assessment Report of the operation of the Tonga Police Force was presented this afternoon to Tonga's Prime Minister, Dr Feleti Sevele by the High Commissioners of Australia and New Zealand. Premium content -
Friday 25 May 2007 5:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Catholic Church World Youth Day Cross was carried by 'Apifo'ou students at the head of a procession of hundreds of Catholic youths from Tonga through central Nuku'alofa on Wednesday morning, May 23. Premium content
