17 Dec 2009

Chilling New Zealand link to doomed Tongan ferry

From Checkpoint, 5:45 pm on 17 December 2009

Documents obtained under the Official Information Act, have revealed that New Zealand was asked to buy the Tongan ferry, Princess Ashika, just months before it sank killing 74 people.

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