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Tuesday 30 April 2019 6:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sione Latu Kiteau (45) who was convicted of possession of sea cucumbers during the closed season was fined $200 pa’anga to be paid within two-months.
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Tuesday 30 April 2019 6:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Prime Minister Hon ‘Akilisi Pohiva will undergo a medical procedure due to a liver complication on Wednesday, 8 May at the Mercy Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, the Prime Minister’s Office stated today, 30 April. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 April 2019 12:31pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Although Tonga’s inflation rate dropped last year to 5.3% it remains the highest inflation rate of the 14 Pacific Islands members of the Asian Development Bank. By Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Monday 29 April 2019 8:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Sri Lankan citizen, Mr Vaseeth Samsudeen received a fully suspended sentence after using a forged French passport to enter Tonga and attempting to depart from Tonga, in May last year. Premium content -
Monday 29 April 2019 8:20pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Viliami Latu who was convicted in the Supreme Court of fraudulently converting $1,200 pa’anga at the Ministry of Finance in Neiafu was sentenced to 60 hours of community work. Premium content -
Monday 29 April 2019 8:13pm
Geneva, Switzerland : The use of new technology to facilitate trade and address food safety was discussed at the International Forum on Food Safety and Trade held on 23-24 April, by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Addis Ababa. Premium content -
Monday 29 April 2019 8:10pm
Brisbane, Australia : Around 10 schools took part in Queensland’s first inter-schools Polynesian Festival with Woodridge State High School winning the Tongan stage segment at the Edmund Rice Performing Arts Centre, St Laurence’s College, South Brisbane, on 27 April. Premium content -
Saturday 27 April 2019 2:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The MV Taka-i-Pomana, a 65.25m passenger and containerised vessel was launched by HM King Tupou VI at the Taufa‘ahau Tupou IV Domestic Wharf on Wednesday, 24 April 2019. Premium content -
Saturday 27 April 2019 9:46am
New Delhi, India : The Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka rank among the deadliest terrorist attacks in modern history, and underscore the metastasizing scourge of Islamist violence in Asia. Radical Islamic groups, some affiliated with larger extremist networks, have been quietly gaining influence in an arc of countries extending from the Maldivian to the Philippine archipelagos, and the threat they pose can no longer be ignored. -
Friday 26 April 2019 10:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Thousands of students from schools around Tonga cheered their teams in final athletics events today as the Inter-College Sports competition came to an end at Teufaiva Stadium, in Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
Friday 26 April 2019 6:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Senior Customs Officer (59) was arrested by Tonga's Drug Enforcement Taskforce on April 24 in relation to a major seizure of drugs shipped from the USA and intercepted by Customs Officers on April 23 at the Queen Salote Wharf in Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
Thursday 25 April 2019 10:22pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : “Lest we forget” ANZAC Day commemorations today, remember the day when ANZAC forces consisting of Australian and New Zealand forces (including Tongan soldiers) landed at Gallipoli, Turkey, during World War One in 1915. Premium content -
Thursday 25 April 2019 2:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Litani Taufa, missing at sea since Tuesday morning, has not been located, Tonga Police reported at 1:00pm today. A Search and Rescue operation is continuing along the eastern Tongatapu coastline, where the body of Captain Sam Tatafu and their overturned boat was located early yesterday. Premium content -
Wednesday 24 April 2019 4:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police have seized a large amount of a substance believed to be methamphetamine imported at Queen Salote Wharf in Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
Wednesday 24 April 2019 4:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The body of a well-known sea captain Samuela Tatafu, who was reported missing at sea yesterday with Litani Taufa, was recovered today on the rugged southeast coast of Tongatapu 24 April. -
Tuesday 23 April 2019 11:54pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s 2019 Inter-College Athlete Competition opened with a vibrant start this morning at the Teufaiva Stadium, where hundreds of young athletes were eager to get out onto the track, after a long Easter weekend holiday. Premium content -
Tuesday 23 April 2019 8:28pm
Sydney, Australia : Israel Folau will face a panel of three distinguished barristers in a code of conduct hearing on 4 May at the Rugby Australia Building in Sydney, Rugby Australia announced yesterday 22 April. Premium content -
Tuesday 23 April 2019 8:22pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A major drugs operation in Tongatapu resulted in the arrest of 16 men and 1 woman over the Easter holiday weekend. Premium content -
Tuesday 23 April 2019 8:14pm
Suva, Fiji : Merging rugby skills and life skills is part of a new rugby coaching style to ensure the welfare of rugby players (girls and boys) aged 10-14 years of age, that is being introduced in the western and central division of Fiji. Premium content -
Tuesday 23 April 2019 6:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Are you affected by the Foreign Exchange Control Act of 2018? This is a question we should all ask.... Even if this Act was intended to stifle foreign investment in Tonga, why put the severe restrictions on what the residents of Tonga can or cannot do with their money? - Dean Bishoprick
