24 May, 2017. Ten artists from New Zealand and around the Pacific are doing their part to help doctors travel around the region for child cancer.

4 May, 2017. In Geneva yesterday, Pacific island parties to the Rotterdam Convention joined together to speak in one voice on the issue of asbestos.

25 April, 2017. A Tongan academic is urging more people to consider kava drinking as a valid means to fight mental illness and stress.

12 April, 2017. Health authorities in Tonga have temporarily banned kava drinking in public halls to control an outbreak of typhoid.

27 Ma’asi, 2017. Kuo kamata ngaue atu ‘a e Pule’anga Ha’amoa ke ‘ave fakafaito’o ‘enau kau mahaki ki ‘Initia kae ‘ikai ko Nu’usila ‘o hange koe anga maheni.

22 March, 2017. The Tongan government is shipping thousands of baby ducks and chickens to villages throughout the country in the hope that they will limit the consumption of fatty imported poultry.

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11 Ma'asi, 2017. ‘Oku ‘ikai foki ko ha meá faingofua eni í he ngaueánga kete talaange ki ha tokotaha ‘oku palopalema hono kofuua óku íkai lava é he Potungaue ó to e fai ha meá maána. Óku ongo he taimi lahi á e faingataía óku nau tofanga ai.

6 March, 2017. In Tonga, public gatherings and events where food is shared has been banned for a month in the village of Nakolo after a local was diagnosed with typhoid.