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Friday 29 January 2021 12:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 238 passengers repatriated from New Zealand and Samoa on January 14 tested negative for CoViD-19 in their second and final tests yesterday, confirmed Tonga's Chief Medical Officer (Public Health) Dr Reynold 'Ofanoa.
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Friday 29 January 2021 12:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The death of a young man (19) whose body was found at a home in Kolovai over the weekend, has been ruled as a suicide. Premium content -
Friday 29 January 2021 12:16pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Pilima Langi (63) is the woman who died on Thursday, January 28 after the small boat that she was in with 17 others capsized in heavy seas off Foa Island. Tonga Police have opened an investigation into the marine incident. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 6:47pm
Geneva, Switzerland : The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on all countries to play their part in distributing CoViD-19 vaccines equally. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 6:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Prime Minister was today conferred as a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Australia, by the Australian High Commissioner to Tonga on behalf of the institute. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 6:26pm
Nicosia, Cyprus : Mr Joseph Borghese has been appointed Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Tonga to Cyprus by the Privy Council of King Tupou VI, Tonga's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 5:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Tropical Depression that has developed to the west of Tonga is expected to bring storms, gales and heavy rain to Tonga overnight, Thursday. The Fua'amotu Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre was activated today and has issued a gale warning for the Niuas land areas, and a storm warning for other groups. -
Thursday 28 January 2021 2:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Ha'apai woman has died today after being rescued with 18 people, who were on board a small local ferry boat that capsized in heavy seas off Foa Island, on Wednesday afternoon. A rescuer said the woman had refused one of his four life jackets so it could be given to a child. There were no life jackets on the boat. Two people remain in hospital. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 January 2021 7:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An important mangrove area at the mouth of Tongatapu’s Fanga'uta Lagoon that was destroyed in 2017 to make way for a golf course project in Popua, is slowly being restored by the Department of Environment. “It’s a huge job to restore this area,” said team leader, Hoifua Aholahi, who urges the public not to destroy the nurseries at the site. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 January 2021 6:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : HM King Tupou VI commissioned the Tonga Navy's VOEA Ngahau Siliva patrol boat at the Masefield Base, Touliki, today. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 January 2021 6:50pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : ‘Inoke Huakau (39) was sentenced at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court, to six-months imprisonment, which was fully suspended for possession of 0.29 grams of methamphetamine in 2019. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 January 2021 6:37pm
Suva, Fiji : The European Union has contributed EUR€20 million as part of an agreement signed yesterday, to help health sectors across Pacific Island countries (including Tonga) respond to CoViD-19. “It comes at a time when PICs are preparing for the arrival of the first allocations of COVID-19 vaccines which are expected in the coming months,” said World Health Organization’s Director of Pacific Technical Support Dr Corinne Capuano. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 January 2021 6:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The IMF has approved US$9.95 million under its Rapid Credit Facility, to help meet Tonga’s “urgent balance of payments and fiscal needs arising due to the COVID-19 pandemic and Cyclone Harold.” Tonga's early closure of external borders had helped avoid a worse economic outcome. “Nevertheless, an economic contraction is expected in FY2021.” Premium content -
Tuesday 26 January 2021 6:18pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 23-year-old soldier who was on-duty at the Makeke Quarantine Facility in Vaini was arrested with cannabis on Monday, January 25. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 January 2021 5:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Lafitani Mahe has been found guilty at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on possession of 1.4 grams of methamphetamine seized at Pili. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 January 2021 1:14pm
Sydney, Australia : New York Times reporting: In a major escalation, Google threatened Friday to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government approved legislation that would force tech companies to pay for journalism shared on their platforms. Australia’s assertive challenge to the online giants has placed it in the vanguard of a movement to bolster a traditional news media ecosystem that America’s trillion-dollar tech companies threaten with extinction. For Google and Facebook, their intense pushback has become a focal point of their global efforts to limit regulation, as governments around the world look to rein them in. Here’s a summary of the fight... By Damien Cave Premium content -
Tuesday 26 January 2021 12:34pm
New York, USA : New York Times reporting: Vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech effectively protect recipients. But in a worrying sign, they are slightly less effective against a variant found in South Africa. The news underscored a realization by scientific experts that the virus is changing more quickly than once thought. -
Tuesday 26 January 2021 11:46am
New York, USA : Just as political leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro have forced a reckoning about the historical persistence of fascist politics, so have their disastrous responses to the COVID-19 pandemic renewed the relevance of the concept of genocide. How else are we to come to grips with so many culpably avoidable deaths? As in Brazil, Indigenous communities in the US have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic. By Federico Finchelstein and Jason Stanley. -
Monday 25 January 2021 7:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A reshuffle in the Tongan Cabinet, was approved today by HM King Tupou VI, with the appointment of a new Minister of Justice and Prisons, and a new Minister of Trade and Economic Development. Premium content -
Monday 25 January 2021 6:55pm
: Tongans stuck in countries such as USA and Europe will be allowed to travel and quarantine in New Zealand before they are repatriated to Tonga, confirmed MEIDECC CEO Paula Ma'u today, 25 January. Premium content
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