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Sunday 15 March 2009 6:05am
Berlin, Germany : We have every confidence that you, together with your G-20 Summit colleagues, recognise not only the importance of heightened transparency and accountability, but also the need to assure the public that all action is grounded in integrity. Failure to restore trust will condemn the prospects of national economic stimulus programmes, however well-intentioned they may be. By Huguette Labelle
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Friday 13 March 2009 7:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Reports from Tonga's newspapers, March 11-12, 2009. An English translation summary by Tevita Fonua. Premium content -
Friday 13 March 2009 7:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Nuku‘alofa Supreme Court heard this morning that the accused Ha‘apai People's Representative Sione Teisina Fuko, admitted to a police investigator that his speech "may be" incited or encouraged disaffection. Premium content -
Friday 13 March 2009 6:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : "I have made it clear in previous 16/11 cases that anyone who sets fire to a building or vehicle will go to prison even if they are first time offenders", Chief Justice Anthony Ford told Sione Mohuanga in sentencing him to two years in prison today. Premium content -
Friday 13 March 2009 6:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Digicel customers will now be able to view the internet whilst on the go. With a GPRS handset, the user will be able to check email, browse their favourite websites, such as Matangitonga, Bebo, Google and many many more. Premium content -
Friday 13 March 2009 6:02pm
Canberra, Autralia : The discovery of Foa petroglyphs reminds us of the prolong regional inter- and intra-migration between the West and East of Oceania, and North and South, in a complex and pluralistic nature of opposite and reversible directions since the arrival of our Moanan ancestors from South-East Asia prior to the Birth of Christ (Vikings of the South Seas). Such Vikings were travelling back and forth between islands, even further to the South of the New World and islands like Tikopia to the North-West, at any time they wanted, for whatever purposes they might be, due to their familiarity in skills and wisdom with the know-how to adapt to nature and the sea in secure and safe strategies.2 comments Premium content -
Friday 13 March 2009 1:59pm
Nu'usila : Kou lau hifo ho'o ongoongo ki he kau fakafoki atu ki Tonga 'oku kau ai e kau faihia fakapo (convicted murderers). 'Oku ki'i taka fakalilifu hono tukuange atu e fa'ahinga pehe ni ki Tonga. Kapau 'oku nau lava 'o fai he fonua lahi pea huanoa hake ki'i Tonga. - Pola Loiti Premium content -
Thursday 12 March 2009 9:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 25-year-old policeman Pilitati Ohi who fell from a coconut tree at the Vaini Police Station will never be able to walk again due to serious spinal injuries that have left him paralysed from the neck down. Premium content -
Thursday 12 March 2009 8:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new health initiative between the Ministry of Health and Tonga's churches aims to reduce non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, a major health issue for Tonga, where an estimated 40% of the population either have diabetes or are at risk of developing it. Premium content -
Thursday 12 March 2009 10:23am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A crown witness told the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court, that if people were not urged to Pangai Si'i the events of November 16 would not have taken place. Premium content -
Wednesday 11 March 2009 1:25pm
New York, USA : Tongan women have made submissions to the Constitutional and Electoral Commission to incorporate gender perspective into Tonga's reform process, the Deputy Director of Women's Affairs, Polotu Fakafanua-Paunga, told the 53rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women, at the United Nations in New York on March 6. Premium content -
Wednesday 11 March 2009 12:51pm
New York, USA : In Pacific economies women's work in homes and communities is invisible or unaccounted for in formal economic equations. There is a need to recognise that a country's resources also include these human and community resources, Professor Marilyn Waring of New Zealand, said at the 53rd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW53) in New York. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 March 2009 11:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A witness told the Nuku‘alofa Supreme Court today that on November 16, 2006 he saw and heard the accused Siale Fihaki's speech at Pangai Si'i, where he made reference to certain properties, shortly after they were damaged. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 March 2009 4:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : There is a great need for assistance for the disabled in Tonga and a challenge remains to assist the caregivers of the disabled year-round, Salote Fukofuka told Tongan community leaders who gathered at a Prayer Breakfast on Sunday, March 8 for International Women's Day. Premium content -
Monday 9 March 2009 6:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Bluewater Metals South Pacific Ltd, an Australian exploration company the newest in Tonga, will begin looking for high-grade copper-gold-zinc-silver deposits in our waters in the second half of this year. Premium content -
Monday 9 March 2009 5:58pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Jacques Cartier, a Light Transport Landing Ship of the French Armed Forces is in Nuku'alofa on a friendly visit, during its regional patrol of the South Pacific waters. Premium content -
Monday 9 March 2009 5:50pm
Dubai, UAE : Tonga's National Seven a-side Rugby team, the Digicel Tonga 7, reached the Rugby 7's World Cup Plate Semi Finals to be defeated by Australia 19-22 in Dubai on March 7. Premium content -
Monday 9 March 2009 5:25am
London, UK : This year the Commonwealth commemorates its foundation sixty years ago. The London Declaration of 1949 was the start of a new era in which our member countries committed themselves to work together, in partnership and as equals, towards a shared future. Premium content -
Saturday 7 March 2009 6:19pm
Paris, France : Each year, International Women's Day (IWD) provides an occasion for taking stock of progress and reflecting on the challenges that remain in the pursuit of gender equality. - A message from Mr Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of International Women's Day, March 8. Premium content -
Saturday 7 March 2009 6:31am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Contesting the meaning behind an alleged speech made by PR Teisina Fuko "telling people to go to the Prime Minister's Office" took up the latter part of the morning of March 6 in the fifth day of a jury trial of six accused of sedition. Premium content
