Honiara Hotel fare. On Sunday 1 June 1969 the hotel was opened with an event held between 17:30 and 19:30 and attended by around 400 guests including Tommy Chan's father Chan Wing. During the April/May 2006 riots in Honiara, Sir Tommy Chan, owner of the Honiara Hotel, a naturalised Chinese of the Islands, the hotel and his son's shop were targeted for attack but escaped due to support from some islanders, Christian brotherhood and the police. Honiara Hotel The Honiara Hotel is located in Chinatown in Honiara, Solomon Islands. It is a 56-room establishment which has different grades of rooms catering to
Honiara sharing in a ceremony called "manga'e", (performed by men) of the surplus harvest of fishing and garden crops. The dance is performed to highly rhythmic songs which are in the form of a "feature call and response, speech–song", including the short history of the island of Bellona. The Melanesia Arts and Crafts Festival was held for the first time in Honaria in 1998 when five Melanesian Countries participated. The present trend in dancing among the youth of the Islands and in Honiara also is freestyle dancing, which has become integral to the night life and entertainment scene. These dance bears