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Tuesday 16 February 2021 6:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A cheque of $250,000 dividend was presented to government from the property sector of public enterprises during their Annual General Meeting today, 16 February.
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Tuesday 16 February 2021 5:53pm
New York, USA : New York Times reporting: The World Health Organization on Monday authorized the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine, clearing a path for the cheap and easy-to-store shots to be distributed in lower- and middle-income countries around the world. -
Tuesday 16 February 2021 4:17pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Petrol, kerosene, and diesel prices have increased for February-March starting today, 16 February, as approved by the Tonga Competent Authority. Premium content -
Monday 15 February 2021 7:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Science scholarships were presented to eight high school and tertiary students on February 15 sponsored by the Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. The awards will help them with their school fees. Premium content -
Monday 15 February 2021 7:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Declaration of a Health State of Emergency will enter its second year of enforcement, under a monthly renewal starting from 8:00pm today, February 15 to March 15. This means the State of Emergency has been in force for a full year, since it was first declared on 12 March 2020. Premium content -
Monday 15 February 2021 6:51pm
Auckland, New Zealand : The city of Auckland is now under level 3 lockdown for three days starting today after a family of three from Papatoetoe tested positive to CoViD-19. Premium content -
Monday 15 February 2021 6:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 107 passengers who were repatriated from Australia on February 11 have all tested negative for CoViD-19 in their first testing. Premium content -
Monday 15 February 2021 3:56pm
Apia, Samoa : A positive CoViD-19 test was reported in Samoa on Saturday in a passenger who arrived in Samoa from California, USA, via New Zealand, on 12 February. Further tests are to be conducted on other passengers and staff who were involved with the flight and quarantine. Premium content -
Friday 12 February 2021 6:18pm
New York, USA : New York Times reporting: In his new book, the astrophysicist Avi Loeb, a professor at Harvard, argues that the absence of evidence regarding life elsewhere is not evidence of its absence. In October 2017, a telescope in Maui, Hawaii, captured an exotic speck speeding across the sky. It was interstellar — recognized as the first object we’ve ever seen that originated outside our solar system. In the past few years there has been a flurry of new interest in the search for aliens. Tech billionaires are funding novel efforts to scan the heavens for evidence of life, and after decades of giving the field short shrift, NASA recently joined the search. By Farhad Manjoo. -
Friday 12 February 2021 5:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) have formed a partnership for policing development under a new Memorandum of Understanding, signed yesterday in Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
Friday 12 February 2021 5:23pm
Suva, Fiji : We know many people are asking when vaccines will be available in Pacific countries. We anticipate that in 2021, demand will vastly exceed supply. But this doesn’t mean we should just sit and wait. PICs now need to focus on preparing, so they are ready when the first vaccines do arrive. This includes starting pre-registration for priority groups. It means making sure the systems are in place and working, for delivering vaccines and monitoring their safety and effectiveness. This requires investments to strengthen health systems, which will bring benefits beyond COVID-19. By Dr Takeshi Kasai. -
Friday 12 February 2021 4:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new classroom building for Holonga Government Primary School was commissioned on February 11, under a recovery program for schools damaged by Tropical Cyclone Gita in 2018. Premium content -
Friday 12 February 2021 4:03pm
Auckland, New Zealand : New Zealand expects to vaccinate border workers within two to three weeks, followed by their household contacts, with the first batch of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine set to arrive in the country next week, announced Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today. Premium content -
Thursday 11 February 2021 6:20pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four men were found guilty at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on numerous charges of possessing methamphetamine and cannabis at a home in Hofoa, where drug dealing was conducted. They will be sentenced on a later date. Premium content -
Thursday 11 February 2021 5:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 107 passengers were repatriated to Tonga on a chartered flight from Australia this afternoon. A group of seasonal workers also departed Tonga on the same flight. Premium content -
Thursday 11 February 2021 4:28pm
Geneva, Switzerland : An equitable supply of vaccines is missing. Of the 128 million vaccine doses administered so far, more than three quarters of those vaccinations are in just 10 countries that account for 60 per cent of global GDP, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanon Ghebreyesus, said in a joint statement yesterday. “As of today, almost 130 countries, with 2.5 billion people, are yet to administer a single dose.” Premium content -
Thursday 11 February 2021 3:38pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new 15-year policy framework for Tonga education will be formulated under a joint Tonga-New Zealand project, launched this morning in Nuku'alofa. It aims to build an education sector that has more impact, and to put Tonga in a better position to attract development partner investment and support. Premium content -
Wednesday 10 February 2021 6:42pm
Sydney, Australia : Eight hundred and fifteen additional seasonal workers from the Pacific Islands, including Tonga, have been approved to help fill jobs in horticulture and meat processing industries in New South Wales, Australia. Premium content -
Wednesday 10 February 2021 6:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A repatriation flight will bring around 122 passengers to Tonga tomorrow from Brisbane, Australia. Other flights scheduled for 25 February have been postponed to arrive in Tonga on March 3. Premium content -
Wednesday 10 February 2021 6:14pm
Wellington, New Zealand : Beautiful Tongan tapa (ngatu) is on display for two-weeks in an exhibition at Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Museum and Art Gallery of New Zealand, by a group of Tongan women in Wellington. Premium content
