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Friday 6 January 2012 3:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's former Chief Justice, Hon. Justice Gordon Ward, has been made a knight bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2012 New Year's honours list, for his services as the Chief Justice for the Turks and Caicos Islands, and his judiciary service for the Commonwealth.
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Wednesday 4 January 2012 9:48pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Three young men died in Tongatapu between Christmas Day and New Year's Eve, including two in a fatal road accident that brought Tonga's road toll to 12 for the year 2011 twice as many as in 2010. Premium content -
Wednesday 4 January 2012 3:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tongan-born Teresa Moore, a top international fashion model, based in New York City, returned to Tonga in the New Year after 20 years away. By Linny Folau Premium content -
Tuesday 3 January 2012 3:59pm
Atlanta, Georgia,USA : Matangi Tonga Online readers around the world send in their holiday photos, with Best Wishes and Season's Greetings to one and all. Premium content -
Monday 2 January 2012 3:15pm
Kentville-Nova Scotia, Canada : It was a white Christmas for Betsy Lee Tu'inuikuafe Worthylake, her husband Peter and mother-in-law Pauline Worthylake in Kentville, Nova Scotia, Canada. On Christmas Eve snow was falling while Betsy was watching from the porch of her house. Premium content -
Friday 30 December 2011 11:38am
Canberra, Australia : HRH Princess Angelika Latūfuipeka Halaevalu Mata'aho Napua-Okalani Tuku'aho graduated with a Master of Business degree from the Australian National University's College of Business & Economics, Canberra, on December 15. Premium content -
Thursday 29 December 2011 5:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : We have in our beautiful country, a group of men who beg or penipeni people on the streets of Nuku'aolfa to buy alcohol, and they are drunk 90% of the time. They are a real menace to society. Concerned Citizen. -
Thursday 29 December 2011 1:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's king is looking for funding to establish a private university in Tonga, with a focus on renewable energy and the environment. Premium content -
Wednesday 28 December 2011 4:44pm
Apia, Samoa : As Samoa prepares to mark the change of Samoa's position in relation to the International Dateline, it will also mark the division in conviction of Seventh Day Adventists in Samoa. Those that will continue to keep Saturday as their Sabbath and others that will now worship on Sunday as the new Sabbath. - Samatau SDA church. Premium content -
Tuesday 27 December 2011 4:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : There will be no reduction in the size of Tonga's civil service in the 2012-13 budget, according to Tonga's Prime Minister Lord Tu'ivakano, whose new government, this year supported with a foreign aid-funded budget lifeline, hopes to advance Tonga's political and economic development, somehow, during its remaining three years term in office. By Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Tuesday 27 December 2011 3:30pm
Australia : We the Tongan students at the Australian National University (ANU) are extremely proud to register our humble appreciation and excitement over the recent achievement by Her Royal Highness, Princess Angelika Tuku'aho of a second Master's degree. Nesi, 'Ana, Tonga mo Peni. -
Tuesday 27 December 2011 2:48pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Speaker Lord Lasike "should resign," the Prime Minister Lord Tu'ivakano, said on Friday, after a second arrest warrant was issued for Lasike's breach of bail. Premium content -
Friday 23 December 2011 5:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Chief Justice Hon Michael Dishington Scott has ordered a warrant of arrest for Lord Lasike the Speaker of Parliament, after he defied the conditions of a court order and breached his bail when he travelled to the USA in November and has not returned to Tonga. Premium content -
Friday 23 December 2011 5:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Andrea Moala (12) from Alaki in Tongatapu won the Digicel Star 2011 season 2 singing competition, during the final held at the Dateline Hotel on December 19, winning a trip to the Caribbean. Premium content -
Friday 23 December 2011 5:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Members of the Alonga Centre for the disabled, were treated to Christmas carols and received presents at the opening of the Lady Maria Gift Shop on the ground floor of the Loumaile Lodge today. Premium content -
Friday 23 December 2011 4:34pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A cloudy with showers outlook for Christmas Day in Tonga is forecasted by the National Weather Forecast Centre at Fua'amotu. Premium content -
Friday 23 December 2011 7:30am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's outer island populations are decreasing, although the national population has increased by 1,045 people since 2006, a preliminary count of Tonga's National Population and Housing Census for 2011 shows. Premium content -
Friday 23 December 2011 7:06am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Link to download "Tonga National Population and Housing Census 2011 Preliminary Results" 14 pages, 170KB. Current Members Log in. Premium content -
Thursday 22 December 2011 6:04am
Suva, Fiji : The 2011 Pacific Plan Annual Progress Report and Reporting Annex was today (21/12/11) launched by the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat, Tuiloma Neroni Slade. The Pacific Plan Annual Progress Report provides a comprehensive update of work undertaken over the last 12 months to support implementation of the Pacific Plan. Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. Premium content -
Thursday 22 December 2011 5:47am
Suva, Fiji : The European Union yesterday signed assistance of 12.3 million to increase Pacific-ACP countries' ability to benefit from global trade and regional economic integration. These activities are financed under the 10th European Development Fund and are part of the Strengthening Pacific Economic Integration Through Trade (SPEITT) programme. - Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. Premium content
