Tonga to prepare as El Niño approaches

TONGANS have been warned to collect and store water as the country braces for significant changes in temperatures, rainfall patterns, drought, and tropical cyclone activity in the next three to six months.

Drawing a line in the ocean

FOR decades, the finalisation of a maritime boundary between Vanuatu and New Caledonia has been blocked by a dispute with France over two uninhabited islands in the South Pacific.