{"id":41888,"date":"2022-02-22T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T07:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/22\/communications-restored-to-tonga-a-month-after-volcanic-eruption-and-tsunami"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T07:27:30","slug":"communications-restored-to-tonga-a-month-after-volcanic-eruption-and-tsunami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41888","title":{"rendered":"Communications restored to Tonga a month after volcanic eruption and tsunami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tongans have struggled with makeshift satellite services as repairs to undersea cable connecting Tonga to the world were made<\/p>\n<p>Tonga has been reconnected to the world following repairs to a submarine cable, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami cut communications to the remote Pacific island nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople on the main island will have access almost immediately,\u201d the Tonga Cable chief executive, James Panuve, told Reuters by telephone, after a repair ship handed over the restored cable on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/22\/communications-restored-to-tonga-a-month-after-volcanic-eruption-and-tsunami\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tongans have struggled with makeshift satellite services as repairs to undersea cable connecting Tonga to the world were madeTonga has been reconnected to the world following repairs to a submarine cable, a month after a volcanic eruption and tsunami c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,280,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-tonga","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41889,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41888\/revisions\/41889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}