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Friday 1 July 2016 7:09pm
Brisbane, Australia : Taniela Tupou, widely known as "Tongan Thor", will make his run on Super Rugby debut tonight with the Queensland Reds. The 20-year-old, 135kg prop who went to school in Auckland, New Zealand, hopes to play for the Wallabies in the future.
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Friday 1 July 2016 4:27pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Communications Corporation handed over a dividend cheque of $1.213 million pa'anga to the Government of Tonga as shareholder in the full and final dividend payment for the last financial year 2014-15. This is the second consecutive year that TCC is paying a dividend in excess of $1 million pa'anga, and growing rapidly year on year over the last five years. -
Thursday 30 June 2016 7:02pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s construction of sporting facilities, in preparation for the 2019 Pacific Games will start “not long from now,” Hon. Fe’ao Vakata, told the Tongan Parliament on Tuesday, 28 June, during a budget debate that was flavoured with biblical readings.1 comment Premium content -
Thursday 30 June 2016 5:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new call by the Public Service Association to defer tomorrow’s rollout of a new salary structure until 2017 has been critized by Tonga’s Remuneration Authority, who stated today that claims, made by the PSA Secretary General, Mele ‘Amanaki that they had overlooked employee concerns, are misleading Premium content -
Thursday 30 June 2016 4:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 39-year-old-year wife and mother of 10 children has been charged in relation to hitting her husband (45) on the head with a piece of wood on Monday, 27 June. He remains hospitalized. Premium content -
Thursday 30 June 2016 4:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : HM King Tupou VI will mark his 57th birthday on Monday, 4 July a public holiday in Tonga. Premium content -
Wednesday 29 June 2016 5:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Eleven people, including five children, were happy to reach Tongatapu safely yesterday evening after their small boat had failed to reach its destination Fonoifua Island in the Ha'apai Group on Monday, triggering a search and rescue operation. “When it got dark we had not spotted any island, it started raining and our navigation was off route so we decided to anchor the boat, and slept overnight intending to continue our journey the next day,” said the Captain Tevita Mateaki Fonua, but the boat went adrift. Photos by Linny Folau Premium content -
Wednesday 29 June 2016 4:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The final program for the 2016 Heilala Festival has been released by the Heilala Festival Events Committee. This includes the Miss Heilala Pageant under the theme, "Beautiful Tonga". Tonight a cultural event at the Queen Sālote Memorial Hall will feature the Miss Junior/Pre-teen Tau'olunga dancing competitions. -
Tuesday 28 June 2016 11:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A missing boat with 11 people on board has returned to Nuku'alofa this evening after calling for assistance off 'Eueiki Island near Tongatapu. Some of the passengers were taken to Vaiola Hospital for observation and released, search and rescuers reported tonight. Premium content -
Tuesday 28 June 2016 5:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Search and rescue operations today found no sightings of a small boat carrying 11 people including five children, that failed to arrive at Fonoifua Island in Ha'apai, after leaving Nuku'alofa on Monday afternoon. The first report from a New Zealand surveillance aircraft that searched the area this afternoon had no sightings but the aerial and sea search is continuing. Premium content -
Tuesday 28 June 2016 5:21pm
Suva, Fiji : The Republic of Kiribati and EU citizens (Schengen Area) are to be exempted from visa requirements when travelling into, from or transiting through the territories of the other for a short period, under a short-stay visa waiver agreement signed on 23 June. Premium content -
Tuesday 28 June 2016 1:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A sea search has begun in Tonga for 11 people, including five children (four boys and a girl aged between 2 -12 years old), who were reported missing at sea this morning after their small boat failed to reach Fonoifua Island in Ha’apai as expected, last night. Premium content -
Monday 27 June 2016 6:16pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Nuku'alofa will see ongoing festivities with the annual Heilala Festival to start this week showcasing various events, including a Miss Heilala Pageant under a theme, "Beautiful Tonga". Premium content -
Monday 27 June 2016 6:12pm
Apia, Samoa : Tonga’s Ikale Tahi lost its last game in the Pacific Nations Cup (PNC) on Saturday to a determined Samoa going down 30-10 in Apia, Samoa. The loss puts Fiji and Samoa in leading contention for the two direct qualifying spots available for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. Premium content -
Monday 27 June 2016 6:08pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tupou College collected around $1.9 million pa’anga in donations presented by ex-students during its 150th anniversary celebration held at Toloa, Tongatapu last week. Premium content -
Monday 27 June 2016 5:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A hunt is on for two fugitive mongooses – among six mongooses that hitched a ride from Fiji to Tonga inside a shipping container that was opened on June 8 at Pahu in Nuku’alofa. By Caroline Manu-Moli. Premium content -
Saturday 25 June 2016 4:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The $46m Budget allocation of the Ministry of Education and Training, the biggest in the 2016-2017 National Budget, stirred up the most heated debate so far in this year’s parliamentary budget debate. From the House by Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Friday 24 June 2016 10:08pm
London, UK : Tonga’s Aiona Prescott (21) received the Queen’s Young Leaders Award last night at a special ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London in recognition of exceptional young people from across the Commonwealth who are making lasting change in their communities. Premium content -
Friday 24 June 2016 10:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two men of Chinese origin who hid tobacco in tea bags were found guilty of smuggling and failing to declare to Tonga Customs tobacco in excess of the legal limit when the men arrived at Fua’amotu International Airport, in April last year. Premium content -
Friday 24 June 2016 4:24pm
Nadi, Fiji : A three-year initiative, involving education ministries in Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Solomon Islands, to improve education quality by increasing literacy and numeracy levels of students in the Pacific region, was discussed when education leaders from the three countries met in Fiji this week. Premium content
