Tropic Twilight 2016 – from left, Flying Officer Chloe Lowndes RAAF, SPC Hustin Trusso, USA Guam Army, SPR Jared Humphries, NZ Army and Cadet Lui Jian Bang, China. >>
WELLINGTON, July 15 (Xinhua) -- A New Zealand-led military force - including troops from China and the United States - has begun building community projects to improve water storage and sanitation in the Pacific island nation of Tonga, the New zealand Defence Force (NZDF) said Friday.
The construction work was part of Exercise Tropic Twilight 2016 in Lifuka and Foa, the two main islands in Tonga's Ha'apai island group, said Lieutenant Colonel Josh Wineera, the NZDF Task Force Commander and Senior National Officer.
Nine 10,000-litre water storage tanks were being installed at churches, the fire station and city hall in Pangai, the administrative capital village of Ha'apai, Wineera said in a statement.
Engineers from His Majesty's Armed Forces Tonga, the New Zealand Army, China's People's Liberation Army and the United States Army were also building a toilet block near the Pangai Ferry Terminal, a high-traffic location.
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