Kiribati has two international airports ( Tarawa and Kiritimati ).

As of 2010, there are 23 airports in Kiribati, of which 4 have paved runways, the only international ones being Bonriki International Airport and Cassidy International Airport.

As one of the most vulnerable nations on the planet in terms of the effects of climate change, Kiribati has been an active participant in international diplomatic efforts relating to climate change, most importantly the UNFCCC conferences of the parties ( COP ).

The code for international direct dial phone calls to Kiribati.

Air Kiribati connects Abaiang with Marakei and the international airport at South Tarawa.

In March 2004, Air Kiribati ended its international operations.

With its close link with Scouts Australia since 1986, Kiribati Scouts have been represented in international Scout events and leader training courses.

Kiribati have yet to win an international match, and have never played at home, not least because there is no adequate playing ground suitable for an international match.

The date line then circumscribes the country of Kiribati by swinging far to the east, almost reaching the 150 ° meridian.

South of Kiribati, the date line returns westwards but remains east of 180 °, passing between Samoa and American Samoa ; accordingly, Samoa, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand's Kermadec Islands and Chatham Islands have the same date, while American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue, and French Polynesia are all one day earlier.

The Republic of Kiribati, in the Central Pacific, introduced a change of date for its eastern half on, from time zones UTC − 11 and UTC − 10 to UTC + 13 and UTC + 14.

As a British colony, Kiribati was centered in the Gilbert Islands, just west of the old date line.

As a consequence of the 1995 date line change, Kiribati's easternmost territory, the Line Islands, including the inhabited island of Kiritimati ( Christmas Island ), started the year 2000 before any other country on Earth, a feature the Kiribati government capitalized upon as a potential tourist draw.

The central Pacific Republic of Kiribati introduced a change of date for its eastern half on 1 January 1995, from time zones − 11 and − 10 to + 13 and + 14, to avoid having the country divided by the date line.

The central Pacific Republic of Kiribati introduced a change of date for its eastern half on 1 January 1995, from time zones − 11 and − 10 to + 13 and + 14.

As a British colony, Kiribati was centered in the Gilbert Islands, just west of the old date line.

But as of 2005, most world atlases ignored the Kiribati dateline shift and continued to represent the International Date as a straight line in the Kiribati area.

In Tonga, Seventh Day Adventists ( who usually observe seventh-day Sabbath ) observe Sabbath on an official Sunday due to an anomaly in the International Date Line which places the line east of Tonga ; as Tonga lies east of the meridian of 180 ° longitude, Sunday as observed in Tonga ( as with Kiribati, Samoa, and parts of Fiji and Tuvalu ) is considered for this purpose to be the same day as Saturday observed in most other places.

Because it is a more remote outer-island within the Gilbert line of the Republic of Kiribati, it is known for maintaining a more traditional culture held together mostly under the authority of " unimwane " ( village elders ).

* May 2 – Taomati Iuta, Vice President of Kiribati ( 1991 – 1994 )

He was narrowly elected to replace Tabai as the president of Kiribati on behalf of the National Progressive Party of Kiribati from 8 July 1991 until 1 October 1994.

Some of these countries include, but are not limited to, Fiji, Kiribati, Nepal and Micronesia. In May, 1994, Connect. com. au became the first Internet Service Provider with a formal arrangement to use the university AARNet network as its internet backbone.

IATA airline designators are digram letter / digit codes for airline companies, like " M6 " ( Amerijet ), " NH " ( All Nippon Airways ), and " 4A " ( Air Kiribati ).

Tonga-IANA time zone database zone name Pacific / Tongatapu-used UTC + 14 for daylight saving time from 1999 to 2002, and therefore celebrated new year 2000 at the same time as the Line Islands in Kiribati.

* 2003-11-09: the ISO 8601 international standard orders the components of a date like this, and additionally uses leading zeros, for example, 0813-03-01, to be easily read and sorted by computers.

The films may be of recent date and, depending upon the focus of the individual festival, can include international releases as well as films produced by the organisers ' domestic film industry.

Instead of the international date line convention, there are varying opinions as to where the day changes.

ISO 8601 Data elements and interchange formats – Information interchange – Representation of dates and times is an international standard covering the exchange of date and time-related data.

Due to its widespread adoption and implementation it has been hailed as an example of exceptional international co-operation, with Kofi Annan quoted as saying that " perhaps the single most successful international agreement to date has been the Montreal Protocol ".

In consequence, the Montreal Protocol has often been called the most successful international environmental agreement to date.

Accordingly, the Montreal Protocol community is organising a range of celebrations at the national, regional and international levels to publicize its considerable success to date and to consider the work ahead for the future.

Open Skies is one of the most wide-ranging international efforts to date promoting openness and transparency of military forces and activities.

* Radiocarbon-The main international journal of record for research articles and date lists relevant to 14C

* Phil Dunn-founder of the Naval Wargames Society, the only international organisation of naval wargaming to date, and author of Sea Battle Games.

* July 4 – Samoa: Samoa changes its time zone to being 3 hours behind California, such that it crosses the international date line and July 4 occurs twice.

In 1998 the Championship was held in Italy, whose appearance at the 1997 World Championship was their first ( and to date, only ) at the top level of international handball.

The Games had the largest international participation of any sporting event to that date.

In 1992 the NME declared The Cure had during the 1980s become " a goth hit machine ( 19 to date ), an international phenomenon and, yep, the most successful alternative band that ever shuffled disconsolately about the earth ".

On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking on his most successful domestic season as a player to date.

* Andy Webster ( b. 1982 ), footballer & Scotland international ( 22 caps to date ) – grew up and was educated in Arbroath, prior to his departing for clubs further afield, and his parents still reside in the town.

The origins of the FSC dispute date back to 1971, when the US introduced legislation providing for " Domestic international sales corporations " ( DISCs ).

* Umberto Eco's novel The Island of the Day Before ( 1995 ) ( L ' isola del giorno prima, 1994 ), a story about a 17th-century nobleman marooned across the international date line

* Both sides agreed to cooperate to replace North Korea's graphite-moderated reactors with light water reactor ( LWR ) power plants, to be financed and supplied by an international consortium ( later identified as the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization or KEDO ) by a target date of 2003 ;

The success later translated to the top ten on the pop chart in January 1983, while the record reached international success, reaching the top spot in New Zealand and Canada and reaching the top-10 in the United Kingdom, later selling over two million copies, becoming Gaye's most successful single to date.

In 1998, Kreviazuk scored her only international hit to date with a cover of " Leaving on a Jet Plane ", a song written by John Denver and popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary.

Under his leadership the country switched to driving on the left, decided to shift westwards across the international date line and adopted daylight saving time, and proposed the introduction of a common pacific currency.