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  • Tuesday 3 November 2015 6:32pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 21-year-old man from Hala’ovave has been arrested and charged in relation to the seizure of four cannabis plants on Sunday, 1 November.
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  • Tuesday 3 November 2015 5:52pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Legislative Assembly of Tonga has been adjourned to reconvene sometime early next year. No date has been confirmed at this stage.
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  • Tuesday 3 November 2015 5:50pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Tongan Government’s public services will close down at 4:30pm on Monday, 21 December - the last working day, before the beginning of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
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  • Tuesday 3 November 2015 5:48pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga Police today confirmed that a man from Sapa’ata had died after being crushed by a truck full of sand in an accident at Ha’aluma Beach in ‘Eua on 22 October.
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  • Tuesday 3 November 2015 11:25am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s initiative to open up a new export market for Tongan squash in China could lead to first shipments as early as next season (2016) – if the Chinese government is satisfied that Tonga’s produce does not present a “high risk” for food safety and biosecurity - and that means that Tonga's produce has to be clean to a high standard, throughout the growing, packing and export process.
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  • Tuesday 3 November 2015 10:53am


    Washington DC, USA
    : On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States of America, I send my sincerest congratulations to the Kingdom of Tonga on your National Day on November 4th.
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  • Monday 2 November 2015 4:47pm
    Cyclone Ian


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga might expect two or three cyclones in the 2015-16 Cyclone Season, which started yesterday, November 1, continuing for at least six months until the end of April.
  • Monday 2 November 2015 3:59pm


    Paris, France
    : Today, 2 November 2015, is the 'International Day to end Impunity for Crimes against Journalists'. “Every time the perpetrator of a crime is allowed to escape punishment, this emboldens other criminals and creates a vicious cycle of violence,” states Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, who seeks to advance the human right “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.
  • Monday 2 November 2015 2:17pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : One cannot imagine the ignorance of a government that is bankrupt bidding to host games that will cost the government $80,000,000 and produce zero benefit to the people of Tonga. It is déjà vu of the $100,000,000 that China lent us to rebuild Nuku’alofa. The money was never accounted for and spent mostly on the rich and wealthy leaders who controlled the money. - Peni Katoa.
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  • Saturday 31 October 2015 3:36pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : For 20 years we have heard from 'Akilisi Pohiva how dishonest and corrupt previous governments have been. Now, the PM's government in my opinion has been the worst government in 30 years. It is unwilling to hold its own parliament and cabinet to the same rule of law that the rest of us are held to. – ‘Aisea ‘Amanaki.
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  • Friday 30 October 2015 11:17pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonight, when tenor Ta‘u Pupu‘a (37) sings the role of Cavaradossi in the Connecticut Concert Opera's production of Puccini's "Tosca" in the USA, he will have come a long way from his humble birthplace in Tongatapu.
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  • Friday 30 October 2015 6:41pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Businesses in Tongatapu and Vava'u can now pay their PAYE tax and Consumption Tax online, thanks to a new revenue management system known as "RMS7", that was launched by the Australian Deputy High Commissioner, Ms Sophie Temby this morning, 30 October at Tonga's Ministry of Revenue and Customs office, Hala Lelue, Nuku’alofa.
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  • Friday 30 October 2015 5:58pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Four Tongan nationals have been charged with forgery and related charges, following a complaint over a passport application that allegedly involved a forged birth certificate.
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  • Thursday 29 October 2015 5:59pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The soft closing of the Tongan Parliament’s 2015 Session has been deferred indefinitely, according to the clerk of the Tongan Parliament, Dr Sione Vikilani.
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  • Thursday 29 October 2015 3:42pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Now that Government has found a way to levy a 1% taxation on remittances...it adds to the high currency transaction fees that the banks and fund transfer operators are already charging ordinary folks. Instead of finding ways to improve the economy, Government is once again robbing people of the only source of income from the hard labor of their loved ones living and working overseas. – Sione Ake-mei-hakau Mokofisi.
  • Thursday 29 October 2015 3:23pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Mr Prime Minister...You forget that the Constitution demands absolute integrity from our law makers. ...when you passively and aggressively requested the House to release your Minister from the impeachment process, you violated justice; you trashed the Constitution and travestied justice. – Tamanomuka.
  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 10:32pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s new Foreign Exchange Levy Act 2015 that came into force on Wednesday last week has disrupted the movement of foreign exchange in and out of the country, as bankers do not know how to apply it.
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  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 6:31pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga Police arrested a 30 year old man from Hofoa and seized 289 Cannabis plants from a plantation in Puke on Saturday, 24 October 2015. Another man was arrested yesterday on a Nuku'alofa street corner with 32 packs of marijuana.
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  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 6:09pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 3 year-old-boy who touched a faulty mobile phone charger, died from electrocution on Saturday, 24 October 2015.
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  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 3:24pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Ko e faito’o ‘a e Pule’anga ke solova ‘aki ‘a e ngaue pango ‘a Lavulavu: ‘Uluakii - Pehee ‘e he Palemiaa ke tohi tangi mai ‘a e kakaii ki he Tama Tu’ii ke fai ha fili fo’ou; Uaa – Pehe ‘e Minisita Eke ke fai ha tohi tangi ki Falealea ke toe fai ha hopo fo’ou.

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