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Monday 27 April 2009 12:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Over the next seven years Tonga Power Ltd will be spending $16.5 million pa'anga to improve the electricity distribution network in Tongatapu and the outer islands.
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Monday 27 April 2009 11:23am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga High School's Under-18 Rugby Team will be representing Tonga at the Sanix World Rugby Youth Invitational Tournament 2009 in Japan from April 29 to May 7. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 5:30am
Auckland, New Zealand : Weaning us off petroleum will take some time and the replacement technology to make that possible will still be imported and not home-grown. However what is needed now is a new and home-grown attitude and actions to lessen our dependence on imported energy immediately. - Sefita A. Hao‘uli Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 5:04am
Apia, Samoa : Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is disappointed with recent comments made by American Samoa congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin on the situation in Fiji. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 5:00am
Morgan Hill-California, USA : FROM OUR ARCHIVES: I am raising attention to the ranking of the winners of inter college sports in Tonga - a more real analysis of the individual schools performance will be more sensible and respectable if you consider the schools that have boys or girls only.- Siosaia Mila -
Sunday 26 April 2009 8:15pm
Wellington, New Zealand : Jim Salinger, New Zealand's most prominent climate scientist, has been sacked by the state-owned National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) for talking to the media without permission, he said on Friday. Premium content -
Sunday 26 April 2009 7:00pm
Sydney, Australia : We know that the situation in Fiji is both complicated and sensitive because of its racial implication and the tendency of outsider to oversimplify the issues involved. But more alarmingly when a PM of a Pacific Is nation issued a tirade to demean the leader of another such as PM Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi of Samoa on Bainimarama as reported by the Samoan government's newspaper Savaii 2¼/09. - ‘Inoke Fotu Hu‘akau Premium content -
Saturday 25 April 2009 6:29am
Auckland, New Zealand : The Hon. Dr Feleti Sevele, Prime Minister of Tonga will deliver the Pacific Cooperation Foundation's Annual Pacific Address in May 2009. Premium content -
Friday 24 April 2009 3:22pm
Apia, Samoa : Representatives from the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu will meet in Apia, Samoa, from 27 to 29 April 2009, to participate in the Regional Workshop on the "Establishment of national human rights mechanisms in the Pacific", organized by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), in partnership with the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF), and with the support of the Government of Samoa and the Pacific Islands Forum. Premium content -
Friday 24 April 2009 11:45am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga is interested in becoming a host country for a regional energy unit, Tonga's Deputy Prime Minister Dr Viliami Tangi told a Pacific Energy Ministers Meeting in Nuku'alofa yesterday. Premium content -
Friday 24 April 2009 11:06am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Pacific Forum member countries need to reduce reliance on fossil fuels and make renewable, sustainable and clean energy our ultimate goal, Pacific Energy Ministers were told in Nuku'alofa yesterday. Premium content -
Thursday 23 April 2009 11:45am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga High School won Tonga's 2009 Inter College Sports Competition for the second consecutive year, with a total of 54 medals, including 26 gold, 15 silver and 13 bronze. Premium content -
Thursday 23 April 2009 8:30am
Apia, Samoa : Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has a peculiar take on the recent turn of political events in Fiji. Premium content -
Wednesday 22 April 2009 5:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Although the Vava'u Secondary School Sports team did not win the 2009 Inter College Sports competition, April 15-17, they still had a reason to celebrate last night after winning 52 medals, Vava'u's best ever performance. Premium content -
Wednesday 22 April 2009 12:09pm
New York, USA : Borrowing from Prussian war theorist Carl von Clausewitz's concept of "the center of gravity," I propose that our political architects should confidently and fearlessly identify our political reform's "center of gravity." Premium content -
Wednesday 22 April 2009 8:11am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Anzac Day 2009 will be observed on Saturday 25 April, recalling and commemorating the fact that servicemen from Tonga also fought and died in major conflicts in the interests of world peace. Premium content -
Wednesday 22 April 2009 5:29am
Suva, Fiji : Many in Fiji believe that Voreqe Bainimarama's intentions are good and are in opposition to the aims of previous coups. …There is division in the political parties, the judiciary, the churches and the NGO community. Your position depends on the perspective you take. By Fr Kevin Barr. Premium content -
Wednesday 22 April 2009 5:09am
Sydney, Australia : Human rights in Fiji are deteriorating and civilians are living in fear because of the military regime's "draconian measures," an Amnesty International specialist said after visiting the country. By Michael Heath Premium content -
Tuesday 21 April 2009 7:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Noble Fohe, the estate holder of Puke and the longest serving Noble's Representative in the Tonga Parliament will be laid to rest tomorrow, Wednesday, April 22. Premium content -
Tuesday 21 April 2009 7:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A $USD10 million Program Grant for Tonga was announced by by Mr Haruiko Kuroda, the President of the Asian Development Bank during the official opening of an ADB/World Bank Group Joint Focal Office in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, this afternoon, April 21. Premium content
