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Wednesday 14 September 2016 7:09pm
Manila, Philippines : Some 22.5% of Tonga’s population - or over 23,200 people live below the national poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank's latest statistics released yesterday. The high cost of living as well as lack of access to basic infrastructure, services and utilities and the lack of employment or opportunities to generate income make it difficult for people to meet their basic needs.
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Wednesday 14 September 2016 7:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four Tongan nationals, including two former civil servants, will be sentenced on 11 November after changing their plea to guilty to charges in a Tongan passport forgery trial that began at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on 13 September. The case involves a passport application using a forged Tongan birth certificate of a person who does not exist. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 7:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s second Court of Appeal sitting today dismissed an appeal filed by a letter writer to the Kele’a newspaper, the Kele'a, and two others in a defamation case that awarded judgment against them when they were ordered to pay more than $200,000 in damages and costs after they were found guilty of defamation in 2013. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 6:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Senior Police Constable (39) was suspended on Monday, 12 September after a complaint was made by an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Nuku’alofa.1 comment Premium content -
Tuesday 13 September 2016 2:34pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Olympic flag bearer, 32-year-old Pita Taufatofua, is in Tonga this week to say thank you for the opportunity to represent Tonga in Taekwondo at the Rio Olympics. After arriving with his coach, Paula Sitapa, yesterday he went straight to work spending a few hours at Digicel Square in the afternoon meeting fans, signing autographs and taking photos. Photos by Caroline Manu-Moli. Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 6:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 24-year-old man died on impact when the truck he was driving crashed into a tree in front of the Hu’atolitoli Prison compound early Saturday morning, 10 September.3 comments Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 5:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Tonga Navy team won the Inaugural Services Swimming Championship, held at the Masefield Naval Base, Touliki on Friday, 9 September. Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 5:03pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An exhibition of a collection of photographs from the Japan Professional Photographers Society, ‘Japan’s Coastline and its People’, was launched by Crown Prince Tupouto’a ‘Ulukalala at the Visitors Information Centre, Hala Vuna, Nuku’alofa on 9 September. Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 10:42am
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia : The interests of Pacific Members must be at the heart of discussions when looking at how they could influence an effective future engagement through the ACP with the EU, said Dame Meg Taylor, the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, at a Pacific Forum Secretariat meeting on 8 September 2016 in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 10:36am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The MV Maggie Cat's new inter-island ferry which can carry 260 passengers to Vava’u and Ha’apai has made three trips so far since it began on 31 August, but none has been full due to low demand.3 comments Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 10:29am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 17-year-old boy from Kahoua is in stable condition at Vaiola Hospital his car crashed into a fence of the Vaitohi Enterprises on Taufa’ahau Road early on Friday 9 September. Premium content -
Saturday 10 September 2016 3:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Chief Justice O. G. Paulsen has reserved his ruling on an application for an Injunction and a Judicial Review of a decision by the Minister for Infrastructure and Tourism, Hon Semisi Sika in June 2016, to remove the Chairman and a Director of the Tonga Tourism Authority Board. Premium content -
Saturday 10 September 2016 11:20am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u are currently on a working visit to Singapore. Premium content -
Friday 9 September 2016 5:20am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Twenty-five participants joined an Emergency Shelter Kits Training from September 7-9 in Nuku'alofa aimed to build capacity on the use of emergency shelter during emergencies, disasters and recovery period. Premium content -
Friday 9 September 2016 5:03am
Facebook : David Tilton on Facebook said: Why not start now? I'm tired of bags of filthy nappies being dropped off on our road. Why can't those bags be picked up in the weekly trash? Why do people feel compelled to drop off their filth in someone else's neighborhood? -
Thursday 8 September 2016 11:27am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Environment Management Regulation 2016 passed in May, will not be enforced until 2017, the Acting Director of Environment, Mafile’o Masi confirmed yesterday, 7 September. The Act aims to punish Tongans' habit of dumping and burning rubbish in private homes and public places, including beaches and roadsides. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 September 2016 6:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A second Tonga Court of Appeal Session for this year began in Nuku'alofa on Monday, 5 September and will hear 10 cases, including appeals made by the Crown against American fugitive Antone Thomas Pedras and another by Kele’a newspaper. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 September 2016 6:28pm
Auckland, New Zealand : New Zealand is celebrating Tonga Language Week from September 4-10 focusing on observing how Tongan culture has shaped the country. The theme this year is ‘Fakakoloa ‘a Aotearoa ‘aki ‘a e Loto’i Tonga’ – Enriching Aotearoa with the Tongan Spirit. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 September 2016 9:50am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Hemaloto Makafilia (23) and Sailosi Lau’i (21) who were arrested and charged for the brutal attack of a 56-year-old American woman, the United States Peace Corps Director in Nuku’alofa in July, were denied bail by the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court on Monday, 5 September. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 September 2016 5:51am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Vendémiaire, a surveillance frigate of the French Navy from Noumea was in Nuku’alofa this week on a goodwill visit that included conducting joint training exercises with the Tonga Navy and donated french reading books to the French Learning Centre. Premium content
