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  • Friday 11 September 2020 6:10pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Drivers and all front seat passengers over 12 years old must wear seat belts while driving in Tonga, under a new Traffic Act 2020 that came into effect on August 31. New penalties will be enforced from October 1 for a range of traffic offences, including holding mobile phones while driving and causing loud noises while driving.
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  • Friday 11 September 2020 5:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Medical supplies will arrive in Tonga on September 15 in a container onboard a Royal New Zealand Navy dive hydrographic vessel, HMNZS Manawanui, in a contactless port visit.
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  • Friday 11 September 2020 5:32pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Two repatriation flights are being planned for next month to return around 300 people from Christchurch, New Zealand and Brisbane, Australia, confirmed MEIDECC CEO Paula Ma’u today.
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  • Thursday 10 September 2020 6:36pm


    Geneva, Switzerland
    : The World Health Organization is urging countries to eliminate industrially produced trans-fat (TFA), from the global food supply by 2023, due to its link to heart disease and death. In Tonga, 1.71 % of coronary heart disease deaths is due to trans-fat intake. Trans-fats raise our bad (LDL) cholesterol levels and lower your good (HDL) cholesterol levels. Examples of foods that may contain trans-fat include doughnuts, cookies, crackers, muffins, pies and cakes.
  • Thursday 10 September 2020 6:31pm


    Dunedin, New Zealand
    : Former Crusaders’ utility back Fetuli Paea (26) has signed with the Highlanders in Dunedin.
  • Thursday 10 September 2020 6:29pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Vilimoa Afu (35) was sentenced at the Supreme Court to six-months imprisonment, which was fully suspended, for possession of 0.11 gram of methamphetamine, at Ngele’ia.
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  • Thursday 10 September 2020 6:12pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Vaipulu Ikamanu was discharged on charges relating to the importation of prohibited goods, a .22 rifle and 6,801 ammunitions alleged to have been smuggled in a box from the United States last year. He said, he was only asked to collect it. The judge said S.117 of the act was inconsistent with the Constitution “and I therefore find that S.117 is void.”
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  • Wednesday 9 September 2020 6:52pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga is looking at providing CoViD-19 tests for outgoing passengers at a fee says the Ministry of Health, but until a regulation is amended, foreigners who are stuck in Tonga will not be able have departure tests. This may take two weeks or more to sort out.
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  • Wednesday 9 September 2020 6:41pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Two visitors from New Zealand have started collecting rubbish left scattered on Tongatapu beaches this month. They remove bag loads of dirty diapers and other waste, so the beaches are “all clean and safe for everyone to use and enjoy,” and to protect marine life.
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  • Wednesday 9 September 2020 6:36pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Sioeli Tapueluelu was jailed for nine-months imprisonment for possession of 3.37 grams of methamphetamine, at the Supreme Court last week.
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  • Wednesday 9 September 2020 6:33pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Viliami Talivakaola was discharged at the Supreme Court on charges relating to the importation of prohibited goods, namely a shotgun and 900 ammunitions, alleged to have been smuggled to Tonga in a shipment from the United States last year. He found that the indictment against the accused was faulty.
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  • Wednesday 9 September 2020 5:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Enforcement of the new Employment Relations Act 2020 should be deferred “until we are able to recover from the effects of this global pandemic.”, Tonga's Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. stated today, stressing that the timing is wrong.
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  • Wednesday 9 September 2020 3:12pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Losaline Ma'asi became the first woman parliamentarian to chair the Whole House Committee of the Tonga Legislative Assembly, this week. She was selected by the Speaker of the House Lord Fakafanua. A total of 18 Bills were tabled yesterday. From the House by Pesi Fonua
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  • Wednesday 9 September 2020 2:40pm


    Auckland, New Zealand
    : In many Tongan households in Aotearoa where the children have lost their Tongan reo, it is likely to be because the parents, despite their fluency in the reo, do not use it with their children at home. But Tongan is never irrelevant because it carries thoughts and feelings, knowledge and understanding, world-views and identities, dreams and aspirations – and what it means to be a Tongan human being. By Dr Melenaite Taumoefolau for Tongan Language Week 6 – 12 September 2020.
  • Tuesday 8 September 2020 6:19pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Ma’ata Pouono (46) was sentenced today to one-year six-months imprisonment, which was fully suspended, for possession of methamphetamine and bribery of a police officer, at Lapaha in 2018. Police seized the methamphetamine hidden inside a diaper in a rubbish bag at the accused's home as well as $1,366 cash found in her wallet.
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  • Tuesday 8 September 2020 6:10pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Fishing boats, yachts and the inter-island domestic vessels can now complete their underwater surveys in Tonga after a $700,000 upgraded slipway at Queen Salote Wharf was reopened yesterday, 7 September.
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  • Tuesday 8 September 2020 6:07pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Only two out of 33 earthquakes that occurred in Tonga during the month of August were felt, according to the new Tonga Geological Services Seismic Bulletin of 4 September. The number of earthquakes was not unusual for Tonga, which is located within the Pacific Ring of Fire.
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  • Tuesday 8 September 2020 10:12am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Tongan Parliament resumed its 2020 -2021 session yesterday, Monday 7 September, after deferring parliament several times since it passed the Annual Budget on 18 June. From the House by Pesi Fonua
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  • Monday 7 September 2020 5:30pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Twenty-six passengers repatriated from the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu on Saturday, 5 September, tested negative for CoViD-19 confirmed Ministry of Health CEO, Dr Siale ‘Akau’ola today.
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  • Monday 7 September 2020 5:28pm


    NSW, Australia
    : The Oceania Rugby Men’s and Women’s Championship scheduled to take place in November this year has been cancelled due to CoViD-19.
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