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  • Tuesday 1 May 2018 5:49pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A one day Touch Rugby Tournament for Men’s and Women’s open teams, was held to commemorate ANZAC Day last week on the public holiday, 25 April. The first prize of $1000 for each division went to Fasi Moe Afi Women's and to Nukunuku Men's teams.
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  • Tuesday 1 May 2018 5:44pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Land Court has ruled for the Kingdom of Tonga (Government) to pay $99,716 pa’anga to Siosifa Mosa'ati Uhi in compensation for overburden soil unlawfully removed from his tax allotment in Fua'amotu.
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  • Tuesday 1 May 2018 5:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A man sustained minor injury from a machete attack, during a confrontation at Sopu on Sunday night, April 29, where a group of men turned up with a firearm and a machete and threatened a group who were drinking at the area. A vehicle was set on fire.
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  • Monday 30 April 2018 7:53pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 67-year-old man charged with attempted carnal knowledge on a child will appear for trial, at the Supreme Court on May 1.
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  • Monday 30 April 2018 7:50pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s first Commissioner for Public Relations and former Minister of Justice and Police, Siaosi Taimani ‘Aho (79), who passed away on Friday, April 27, after an illness, was laid to rest today at Takaunove Cemetery, Fasi.
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  • Monday 30 April 2018 7:43pm

    : The Tonga Under-20s National Rugby team were outclassed 97 – 0 by the New Zealand Under-20s team in the opening of the 2018 Oceania Rugby U20s Championship on Friday 27 April in Gold Coast, Australia. The halftime score was 47 – 0.
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  • Monday 30 April 2018 7:42pm


    Arlington, Texas
    : The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have drafted Vita Vea (23) of Milpitas, California. He is the son of Tongan immigrants Sione and Fipe Vea.
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  • Friday 27 April 2018 6:44pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A five-year-old girl is in critical condition at Vaiola Hospital after she was allegedly hit by a car on Tuesday night, April 24 on Mateialona Road in Kolofo’ou.
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  • Friday 27 April 2018 6:41pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : By May 24, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) could become the 73rd country whose citizens may enter Tonga without a pre-entry visa - or may be not. The UAE government is telling its citizens the visa waiver will start on May 24, based on an MOU signed with a representative of Tonga's King Tupou VI on April 23. However, it is not yet clear whether or not the Tonga Government has approved it.
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  • Friday 27 April 2018 6:27pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 20-year-old woman who passed away at the hospital in Pangai on Tuesday, April 24 has been confirmed to have been a suicide death.
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  • Friday 27 April 2018 6:25pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Two tourism operators in Vava'u, who are embroiled in a bitter lawsuit, had their civil cases adjourned to May 9, at the Magistrate’s Court in Neiafu.
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  • Friday 27 April 2018 6:11pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Police are looking for two robbers who were armed with an iron rod, and stole around $10,000 pa’anga from a Chinese shop on Friday night, April 20 in Pahu.
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  • Friday 27 April 2018 6:09pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Electronic goods worth over $9,000 pa’anga were stolen from a home at Pili on Sunday night, April 22.
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  • Thursday 26 April 2018 6:09pm


    London, UK
    : A film documentary, 'Leitis in Waiting', has won the audience award, after premiering at the Festival of Commonwealth Film 2018 in London. The film promotes human rights and challenges laws ciminalizing LGBT lives, still current in eight Pacific countries.
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  • Thursday 26 April 2018 5:50pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A search has been called off for a missing man, Tevita ‘Ekuasi (21) who allegedly jumped into the sea at the Houma Blowholes on Sunday, April 8 .
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  • Thursday 26 April 2018 5:46pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A married man, Talanoa Fainu, aged in his 40s, a father of nine children, was convicted of raping his 20-year-old girlfriend in a car in a bush area near Houma on 15 May last year. He was remanded in custody after the ruling was made by Justice Cato of the Tonga Supreme Court on Monday 23 April.
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  • Wednesday 25 April 2018 9:57pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : King Tupou VI laid a wreath at the Cenotaph, Pangai Lahi, in Nuku'alofa, this morning, for the ANZAC Day Dawn Service. The ceremony marked the 103rd anniversary of the landing of the Australia New Zealand Army Corps at Gallipoli, Turkey on 25 April 1915, and remembered the 460 Pacific Islander soldiers who served in those armies in 1914-18.
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  • Wednesday 25 April 2018 1:32pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Passport holders of the United Arab Emirates can enter and stay in the Kingdom of Tonga for 60 days without a pre-entry visa, starting from May 24, according to reports from Abu Dhabi this week.
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  • Wednesday 25 April 2018 10:00am


    Basel, Switzerland
    : Ending an epidemic is a marathon undertaking, and in the case of malaria, we are nearing the finish line. But we will need to keep up the momentum. Still, mounting challenges such as drug and insecticide resistance threaten to reverse the progress we have made. For two consecutive years now, malaria deaths have risen, while funding has flatlined. This year’s World Malaria Day (April 25) should thus spur a redoubling of our efforts. Eradicating malaria will require new medical and health-policy solutions as well as stronger political will.
  • Tuesday 24 April 2018 5:42pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Britain will reestablish its diplomatic mission in Tonga during the coming years, Lopeti Senituli an adviser to Tonga’s Prime Minister, Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva confirmed this morning, 24 April.
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