Tonga

The country won one gold and one bronze medal at the Pacific Mini Games 2022, which end today in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands; Atamaama Tu'utafaiva (25 years old) won gold in the women's shooting and the bronze medal was won by the tennis team

A donation of 30 farm tractors from the Chinese city of Dongguan in Guangdong Province has been handed over to the state - it is meant as a practical aid for the country's recovery

Tonga's battle to qualify for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France will continue at Sunshine Coast Stadium, Queensland, next month with the Asia/Pacific play-offs; it will be the first time Tonga will play in Australia in almost 20 years

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

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

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

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 $400.000 pa'anga, around 175.000US$

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

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

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

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

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

The undersea internet cable connecting the country to the rest of the world was repaired and restored five weeks after the eruption