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Tuesday 3 May 2016 6:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sour consumers are complaining that small bags of sugar are selling in Tonga for up to $50 per kilo - far exceeding the regulated price of $4 per kilo, during an ongoing sugar shortage that has continued for around two weeks now. By Linny Folau.3 comments
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Tuesday 3 May 2016 10:22am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Press Freedom Day celebration, today 3 May, is impeded by a demand by the Prime Minister, Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva, for a broadcast journalist in the Tonga government owned media, Tonga Broadcasting Commission, to be suspended. By Pesi Fonua Premium content -
Monday 2 May 2016 6:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Rugby League has announced its 18 man squad for this Saturday’s May 7 Pacific Test Match against Samoa at Pirtek Stadium in Parramatta. Samoa narrowly won last year’s Pacific test match by 18 to 16. Fiji will play Papua New Guinea at the same venue. Premium content -
Monday 2 May 2016 6:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : "Turn your scars into stars," Vanessa Heleta tells abused women in Tonga. "Orange Day can be a day where we stand up and say enough is enough.” Premium content -
Monday 2 May 2016 5:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 31-year-old man, facing a murder charge in the death of his older brother, is to appear at the Nuku’alofa Magistrate’s Court on 25 May. Premium content -
Sunday 1 May 2016 3:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : While Tonga languishes in debt as a nation owing several hundred million dollars with a dead economy and extremely high unemployment especially with our youth, we volunteer to spend $100,000,000 TOP to host the South Pacific Games....Our leaders have turned us into a beggar nation, so deeply in debt that our grandchildren and great grandchildren’s future has been sold. Faka'ofa – Sione Masa. -
Saturday 30 April 2016 3:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tupou College was in first place with more than 50 gold medals in the unofficial results for Tonga’s 92nd Annual Inter-Collegiate Athletics Competition yesterday. Photos by Linny Folau. Premium content -
Friday 29 April 2016 1:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Filming of new German feature film - a drama based on a true story, has started in Vava’u in April under the direction of a German film maker Florian Schewe, with a crew of about 20 people, mainly German, who have fallen in love with Vava'u. Premium content -
Friday 29 April 2016 10:48am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : After the first two-days of competition at Tonga's 92nd Annual Inter-Collegiate Athletics Competition, all boys boarding school Tupou College led the medal count on Wednesday, 27 April. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2016 10:34pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : New Zealand born actor Joe Naufahu made his acting debut for the popular HBO TV series, Game of Thrones. Naufahu featured in the first episode of season 6 of the series which was played last week. He acts as “Khal Moro” a ruthless warlord of a warrior tribe known as the “Dothraki”. -
Thursday 28 April 2016 10:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Food Security for Tonga is at the heart of the new 'Tonga 2015 National Agricultural Census' report that was released this morning, 28 April in Nuku’alofa. It is Tonga’s first Agricultural Census since 2001, and there has been a lack of reliable statistics for government planners and policy makers in the industry, which has seen a declining contribution to GDP over the last decade. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2016 6:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga could be used as a transfer point for the illegal trade of arms if its government doesn’t sign the International Arms Trade Treaty warns Parliamentarians for Global Action (PGA). In the Pacific region, Tuvalu, Samoa, Australia and New Zealand have signed and ratified the treaty and Vanuatu, Palau, Kiribati and Nauru have signed. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2016 5:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police await a pathologist's report before they will make further comment on the death of a New Zealand visitor Gregory Reynolds, whose body was found on Sunday, 24 April in a dense bush area close to the Liku’alofa Beach Resort on the western side of Tongatapu. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2016 4:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga has been excluded from the 2016 World Rugby U20 Trophy tournament. Fiji and Samoa are both currently competing in the competition which commenced last week in Zimbabwe. The annual U20 Trophy tournament hosts second tier nations who did not qualify for the premium U20 World Rugby Championship. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 10:15pm
Cardiff, Wales : Welsh rugby club, the Cardiff Blues, honoured their most capped player Taufa'ao Filise at a special testimonial dinner last week. The dinner celebrated a decade of service to the club by Taufa’ao who comes from Malapo in Tonga. -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 10:08pm
New York, United States : Six Pacific Islands of the 15 overall countries submitted their ratification of the Paris Agreement during a special signing ceremony on 22 April in New York. Fiji, Nauru, Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tuvalu submitted their ratifications. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 10:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new $30.2 million (AUD) Aid Partnership is to be established between Tonga and Australia following discussions held last week between Tonga's Minister of Finance, Hon. ‘Aisake ‘Eke,and the Australian High Commissioner to Tonga, HE Mr Andrew Ford. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 4:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 31-year-old man was charged today with murder in relation to the death of his elder brother during an alleged fight at a home in Mataika, Tongatapu, last night Tuesday, 26 April. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 1:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Hundreds of students from secondary and middle schools from around Tonga gathered at Teufaiva Outdoor Stadium yesterday, 26 April at the start of the four days 92nd Annual Inter-Collegiate Athletics Competition 2016. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 11:37am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Anna Jane Vea will represent Tonga at commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in France in September, as the winner of a World War I essay competition run by the New Zealand High Commission, in Tonga. Premium content
