Oceania Tonga The Japanese government has allocated about $1,5 million to provide useful equipment, including fishing boats, to help Tonga's fishing sector recover after the tsunami
Oceania Tonga Tonga's new police commissioner McLennan, who arrived from Australia, will be sworn in after completing his seven-day quarantine in Nuku'alofa next week; the PM announced that the King had approved the appointment
Oceania Tonga Ports Authority Tonga AGM has announced a net profit of $2.2 million for the 2020/21 financial year, with programmes successfully progressed such as the slipway upgrade to facilitate docking and dredging of the domestic pier
Oceania Tonga Relief kits and money were donated to members of South Pacific Business Development (SPBD Tonga) microfinance today; about 3.200 members will receive the donations on Tongatapu worth $400.000 pa'anga, around 175.000US$
Oceania Tonga A range of cleaning supplies from Karcher in Australia donated to hospitals across Tonga to help clean up the ash fall after the eruption have been received by the Ministry of Health
Oceania Tonga NIWA and The Nippon Foundation are embarking on a mission to uncover the undersea impacts of the recent Tongan volcanic eruption, examining thousands of square kilometres and expecting to find dramatic changes in undersea topography
Oceania Tonga Non-government essential services are not allowed to access fuel tanks during the final blockade, only government vehicles are allowed to refuel at designated service stations
Oceania Tonga Form 6 and 7 students in Vava'u and Tongatapu will return to school today; as of the end of 2021, most students had been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and only fully vaccinated teachers will be allowed to teach in the schools
Oceania Tonga A monument on the island of Pangaimotu was cleaned up by a HMAS Adelaide team during a small island clean-up operation, made necessary by the devastating tsunami and the ash fall from the volcanic eruption
Oceania Tonga The undersea internet cable connecting the country to the rest of the world was repaired and restored five weeks after the eruption
Oceania Tonga The government expressed regret over the 'misunderstanding' over canned pork, given as part of the delivery of Chinese emergency food aid, stopped by the government on the basis of the Animal Disease Act; no further details or the action taken were given
Oceania Tonga The country enters isolation after several cases of Covid were recorded in the capital Nuku'alofa; as suspected, Covid-19 may have arrived along with the aids
Oceania Tonga A week after the explosion, whose power NASA estimated to be the equivalent of 500 Hiroshima bombs, more help is on the way among amid fears that this could overexpose the country to Covid-19