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Monday 18 January 2021 4:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Siaosi Kalohihea (28) and wife Louena (25) were sentenced to six-months imprisonment for possession of illicit drugs, which was fully suspended, by a Supreme Court judge who urged Tonga Police to catch the main supplier to stop the “scourge of drugs” in the community. “We need to get the person in Tonga who is receiving the drugs from overseas, to stop the spread of drugs,” he said.
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Monday 18 January 2021 4:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 26-year-old woman from Folaha remains in police custody charged with assault and bodily harm of a child, after a post on facebook went viral showing screenshots of an assault on a 3-year-old inside a car. Premium content -
Sunday 17 January 2021 3:28pm
New York, USA : New York Times reporting: The global death toll from the coronavirus soared past the 2 million mark Friday, just over a year after the virus was first detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. And the carnage is spreading faster now than at any other time in the pandemic. It took more than nine months for the world to pass 1 million deaths in late September. In a little more than three months, the virus has claimed another 1 million lives. By Marc Santora. Premium content -
Friday 15 January 2021 7:03pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A two-years and five-months old child died on Thursday evening, January 14 after being hit by a vehicle in Popua. Premium content -
Friday 15 January 2021 6:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police has issued a warning to domestic ferry operators to ensure their ferries are safe and seaworthy before setting sail with passengers. This was after the MV ‘Onemato from ‘Eua suffered technical difficulties to its steering system, resulting in the Police Search and Rescue boat assisting them to Nuku’alofa, on Tuesday. Premium content -
Friday 15 January 2021 6:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Seven community projects supporting women, youth, health, and the environment throughout Tonga, received funding from Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd (TOML) and Deep Green today, 15 January. Premium content -
Friday 15 January 2021 6:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The three men arrested in relation to the armed robberies at four Chinese retail shops in Nuku'alofa, are expected to appear at the Fasi Magistrate's Court on Monday, January 18. Premium content -
Friday 15 January 2021 5:19pm
Auckland, New Zealand : Air New Zealand has announced the start of services from Rarotonga, Cook Islands, to New Zealand after the recent announcement of a one-way quarantine-free travel route, stating “this is the first step of the phased approach to two-way quarantine-free travel between the two nations.” Premium content -
Thursday 14 January 2021 7:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tonga Legislative Assembly decided not to pursue Constitutional Contempt of Assembly against a member who used a religious reference when he criticized the Prime Minister’s, government funded, national tours for fasting and praying. Premium content -
Thursday 14 January 2021 5:22pm
Washington DC, USA : Tonga has been kicked out of the United States non-immigrant worker programs H-2A and H-2B due to Tonga’s refusal to accept ICE charter flights to repatriate nationals ordered to be removed from the US. Premium content -
Thursday 14 January 2021 5:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The first two repatriation flights for 2021, with a total of 238 passengers from Samoa and Auckland, New Zealand, arrived in Tonga this afternoon, 14 January, confirmed Tonga Police. Premium content -
Thursday 14 January 2021 4:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : HM Queen Nanasipau‘u and HRH Prince Ata were among the 214 repatriated passengers who arrived in Tonga on a flight from Auckland, New Zealand this afternoon. Premium content -
Thursday 14 January 2021 11:24am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A third arrest was made last night in relation to the armed robberies at four Chinese retail shops at different locations in Nuku'alofa area, starting on Saturday, January 9. Premium content -
Wednesday 13 January 2021 5:38pm
London, UK : Former All Black, Charles Piutau (29) thinks dual-qualified rugby players should be allowed to play for less well-resourced unions in future. Premium content -
Wednesday 13 January 2021 1:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A second arrest was made this morning in relation to the four armed robberies at four Chinese retail shops at different locations, in the Nuku'alofa area starting on Saturday, January 9. Tonga Police are looking for a third male suspect. Premium content -
Tuesday 12 January 2021 8:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan Parliament this afternoon rejected a motion for a Vote of No Confidence in the Prime Minister, Hon. Dr Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa with a vote of 13-9. Premium content -
Tuesday 12 January 2021 7:27pm
Nuku'alofa : An arrest has been made in relation to four armed robberies at Chinese shops in Houmakelikao, Kapeta, Tofoa and Maúfanga that began Saturday 9 January 2021. Tonga Police said they were called to respond to incidents involving two men wearing masks who entered the shops armed with a machete and a piece of metal. Premium content -
Tuesday 12 January 2021 6:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Paea Leka was sentenced to two-years six-months imprisonment (fully suspended) for possession of 5.23 grams of methamphetamine and 0.72 grams of cannabis, at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court. Premium content -
Tuesday 12 January 2021 6:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Lelei Vaiangina (54) was sentenced to nine-months imprisonment, fully suspended for possession of 0.04 grams of methamphetamine seized outside a vehicle at the Nuku'alofa (Central) Police Station last year. Premium content -
Tuesday 12 January 2021 4:14pm
Boston-Mass, USA : Though mainstream observers were shocked that Donald Trump increased his support among many ethnic minority groups in the 2020 election, this should not have come as a surprise. The common thread linking the Trump base has little to do with demographics, and much more to do with a personality type. As president, Trump not only deployed racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic rhetoric, but actually baked it into his policies. So why does the 45th president appeal to so many voters whose ethnic, religious, and sexual identities he has mercilessly disparaged? Unless we improve our understanding of these voters’ overriding identification with those able and willing to exercise power, and their own latent thirst for power, we risk being blindsided by it again. By Yasheng Huang.
