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Wednesday 15 June 2016 8:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Prime Minister Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva promised parliament, yesterday June 14, that Government will host a meeting to explain his decision for Tongan schools to replace Standardized Marks with Raw Marks, and that all Tongans will be invited to attend. From the House, by Pesi Fonua.
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Wednesday 15 June 2016 4:49pm
Auckland, New Zealand : A new book in the Tongan language that preserves traditional knowledge about yam growing, titled "Tokanga ko e Mo’ui’anga", was launched by its author Sione Tu’itahi in Auckland, New Zealand. Premium content -
Wednesday 15 June 2016 4:38pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Higher oil prices, a weaker pa'anga and Tonga's new Foreign Exchange Levy have combined to significantly drive up the new prices for petrol, diesel and kerosene in Tonga for June to July, starting tomorrow Thursday, 16 June, the Competent Authority has announced. Premium content -
Wednesday 15 June 2016 1:54pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The banks’ Automatic Teller Machines (ATM’s) in Tonga are not able to add on a charge for the government’s new Foreign Exchange Levy introduced on June 1, and the banks are absorbing the cost of the levy on overseas transactions made through ATMs. Premium content -
Wednesday 15 June 2016 12:41pm
Facebook : Sione Talanoa Fifita says: "I admire the PM for acknowleding his sympathy with the flood victims and at least he was honest with his response, despite the fact he is not proactive enough. The global most concern now is climate change and he should have been forecasted that such natural disaster would occur and be proactive to put aside a proportion of the budget for such occurrence." Read 21 other comments on lack of funding for flooding... -
Tuesday 14 June 2016 10:58pm
Suva, Fiji : PACER-Plus trade talks may lead to serious implications for Pacific island countries with a range of concerns raised on gender, health, food and national sovereignty, states a report commissioned by the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG). Premium content -
Tuesday 14 June 2016 10:54pm
Suva, Fiji : The new Pacific Ecosystem Based Adaptation to Climate Change project (PEBACC) has set up an office in Suva, Fiji. Premium content -
Tuesday 14 June 2016 8:18pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : With more unseasonal heavy rain falling today in Tongatapu, homes in low lying and swamp areas in Kolomotu’a were flooded. Sio Tuiano, the Kolomotu’a Town Officer, who is concerned about the health risks of floodwaters contaminated with E.coli, said a few of the residents have taken shelter in an evacuation centre, but most people do not want to leave their homes. Premium content -
Tuesday 14 June 2016 8:00pm
Noumea, New Caledonia : In a first for the Pacific islands, Fiji’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Peter Thomson, was elected as President of the upcoming 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly. Premium content -
Tuesday 14 June 2016 2:02pm
Amstelveen, The Netherlands : Vulnerable and marginalized children such as refugee, migrant, disabled, street kids and indigenous children and youth, are still widely discriminated against says KidsRights after it recently released its annual global index on children’s rights in 163 countries - with two Pacific countries ranked among the worst performing on the list. Premium content -
Tuesday 14 June 2016 8:43am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The government can’t do much to help people in the flooded areas of Nuku’alofa because government has no money, the Prime Minister, Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva told parliament yesterday, Monday 13 June. He said that the newly constructed roads in the areas stopped the floodwater from flowing out of the areas. From the House, by Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Tuesday 14 June 2016 8:14am
Beijing, China : In 2015 there were 151 Tongan nationals studying in the People’s Republic of China according to the country’s Department of North American & Oceanian Affairs. Of the 151 students in China, 99 were scholarship students. Premium content -
Monday 13 June 2016 6:17pm
Majuro, Marshall Islands : A new United States Government fishing regulation that went into effect late last month, violates a conservation measure for high seas fishing in the Western and Central Pacific, “This is a superpower abusing a measure agreed to in December 2015," said Dr Transform Aqorau today, 13 May. Premium content -
Monday 13 June 2016 4:28pm
Suva, Fiji : Fiji bounced back from a halftime 15 – 0 lead to defeat Tonga 23 – 18 last Saturday, June 11. The game was locked 18 – 18 in the 73rd minute before the Fijian flanker Eremasi Radrodro scored the winning try in the 74th minute to win the game in front of an estatic Fijian crowd at ANZ stadium in Suva. Premium content -
Monday 13 June 2016 11:53am
Laie, Hawaii : HM King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau'u attended the opening of a newly restored Tonga Village at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Laie, Hawaii, on 11 June. Premium content -
Sunday 12 June 2016 7:44pm
Facebook : Pulu Anau on Facebook said: The largest number of overstayers within Tonga are likely Chinese, especially judging from news reports. Instead of looking at this as a bad deal, this is where Tonga can be an example to countries like Australia and NZ. Yes, people occasionally overstay, but countries that are friends act like it. So China is now our friend, why do we still need visas to our other two "friends" south of us? -
Sunday 12 June 2016 7:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Prime Minister pleaded for a chance to speak in parliament on June 9, when the novice Chairman of the Whole House Committee continued to put a damper on the Budget debate. "I should be given a chance to talk about where the country is heading," Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva pleaded. From the House by Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Sunday 12 June 2016 4:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Exceptionally heavy, unseasonal rainfall fell across Tongatapu on June 10-11 causing flooding in Nuku’alofa, and turning the capital into a city of lakes, during what is supposed to be the “dry season”. Fua’amotu recorded 273.1mm of rainfall in the 24 hours between 1:00pm Friday and 1:00pm Saturday, according to Tonga Met., a record rainfall for a single day in the month of June. Premium content -
Saturday 11 June 2016 5:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new classroom building for the 'Apifo'ou College’s Technical and Vocational Education and Training facility (TVET) was commissioned on Thursday, 9 June. -
Saturday 11 June 2016 5:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Up to 250 Tongans who applied to the New Zealand government’s Pacific Access Category Quota for a chance to obtain residence visas, had applications drawn out on Friday. Premium content
