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Monday 1 August 2016 4:33pm
Japan : Two Tongan wrestlers “Tama Tonga” and “Bad Luck Fale” have gained a cult following among Japanese wrestling fans. Both Tama Tonga and Bad Luck Fale are competing in Japan’s prestigious professional wrestling tournament, the 2016 G1 Climax tournament.
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Friday 29 July 2016 8:08pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The fact that Tonga is known to be involved in illegal sales of the Tongan national identity is mind-boggling. Yesterday New Zealand’s Prime Minister urged Tonga’s Prime Minister to do something about it. So what is going on? Premium content -
Friday 29 July 2016 6:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific International Commercial Bank (PICB), a Chinese-Tongan venture, had its license revoked because it failed to honour a business plan and had not submitted an audit report, the National Reserve Bank of Tonga Governor Dr Ngongo Kioa said in Nuku'alofa today. Premium content -
Friday 29 July 2016 6:26pm
Salt Lake City-Utah, USA : A pregnant 30 year-old US-Tongan woman and mother of six, ‘Ofa Kinikini, died after the vehicle she was traveling in was hit by a train in Salt Lake City, Utah on Monday July 25. ‘Ofa's baby was saved in an emergency C-section, a daughter who is now in critical condition, according to local reports. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 10:17pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Five new Tonga Tourism Authority board members were approved by Cabinet yesterday, 27 July. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific International Commercial Bank (PICB), a Chinese-Tongan venture had its license revoked by the National Reserve Bank of Tonga Board of Directors on Tuesday, 26 July. The bank when opened two years ago had a board of six people, four from China and two from Tonga. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A man is in Vaiola Hospital with serious injuries after a car in which he was a front passenger crashed into a brick house on Taufa'ahau Road at Malapo last night, Wednesday 27 July. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Tonga Secondary Schools Brass Band Music Festival held in Tongatapu and Vava'u last week, is a joint initiative by Tonga Police and secondary school principals that brings youth together in a strategy to prevent and reduce crimes like school fights. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The National Reserve Bank of Tonga wishes to assure the public that despite the revocation of the banking licence of Pacific International Commercial Bank (PICB) effective from 26 July 2016, the banking system remains sound. While PICB represented a very small proportion of the total banking system, the banks in Tonga continue to be profitable and maintain strong liquidity and capital position. -
Wednesday 27 July 2016 8:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A complaint has been lodged with Tonga's Public Relations Commission against the new Minister for Tourism, Hon. Semisi Sika, accusing him of an "illegal takeover" of the Tonga Tourism Authority Board, according to Tomifa Paea, the TTA chairman who said he filed the complaint and that the dispute had led to a freezing of the TTA bank account. It is now expected that new board members for TTA will be announced tomorrow, Thursday, in an ongoing dispute between the Minister of Tourism and the TTA that was originally set up to operate as an independent body. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 July 2016 4:33pm
Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland raised tenor Filipe Manu won second place at New Zealand’s prestigious opera singing competition, the 2016 Lexus Song Quest, last Saturday July 23. The 25 year-old came second to a fellow Aucklander, baritone Benson Wilson who won the competition and the $20,000 prize. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 July 2016 4:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Prime Minister Hon ‘Akilisi Pohiva will meet New Zealand's Prime Minister Rt Hon John Key on Thursday 28 July, during his first bilateral visit to New Zealand from July 27-30. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 July 2016 4:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sione Iketau (18) was sentenced to three-years imprisonment for sodamizing a child under the age of 12 at Lapaha, Tongatapu in June last year. The accused, a first time offender was unemployed and relied on his parents who are missionaries for support. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 July 2016 10:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A woman is entitled to feel safe in her own home. Home invasion accompanied by sexual offending is not uncommon in Tonga possibly as a consequence of the limited security many homes have, a Supreme Court judge said when sentencing Paneti Sa (18) to five-years imprisonment for the predatory and callous crime when he raped a 27-year-old pregnant woman in her own home in Tongatapu, last year.3 comments Premium content -
Tuesday 26 July 2016 9:51pm
Pangai, Ha'apai : “Thumbs up, and mission accomplished,” declared Lt. Col. Josh Wineera at a gathering at Lea-‘a e-Tohi Ground, Pangai, Ha’apai on Saturday, 23 July, to commemorate the completion of Tropic Twilight 16 humanitarian program. While the program addressed a need for better water storage and sanitation in Lifuka and Foa, it was obvious that Ha’apai is still struggling to recover from the devastating impact of Cyclone Ian in January 2014. By Pesi Fonua Premium content -
Tuesday 26 July 2016 9:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Six young students who topped a written Soroban examination in Class 3-4 will represent Ha’apai Primary Schools in the National Soroban competition in Nuku’alofa in March next year. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 July 2016 9:08pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga and China are discussing trade, but there’s stiff competition to sell products in China. “You have to promote how good your products are,” a Chinese trade official Mr Jiang Shan told Tongan Journalists at China’s Ministry of Commerce in Beijing in June. By Finau Fonua1 comment -
Tuesday 26 July 2016 5:55pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two men are in Vaiola Hospital with serious injuries after an alleged drunken brawl involving a machete and a piece of wood, at a bush allotment in Niutoua on Sunday night 24 July.1 comment Premium content -
Monday 25 July 2016 4:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A teenager has died after remaining in a coma for over a week after suffering a violent attack in the Nuku'alofa Central Business District on the night of July 9. Ten male accused, some of them teenagers, were arrested over the weekend and charged with manslaughter in the death of ‘Alani Fuapau (19) whom they allegedly beat and stomped on in Taufa'ahau Road.1 comment Premium content -
Monday 25 July 2016 4:16pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Out of all of the corruption, malfeasance, bribery and incompetence in Parliament that we have all witnessed over the past 100 years; None of it was done by a woman! Congratulations ‘Akosita Lavulavu and thank you for being willing to serve. – Peni Katoa.1 comment
