With an emphasis on youth empowerment, education, drugs, and climate change, the Tonga Youth Parliament 2024 was formally opened today with a ceremony held at the Parliament Chambers in Tongatapu.
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Thursday 5 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Thursday 5 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Her Majesty Queen Nanasipau'u Tuku'aho is attending the South Pacific Area Seminar with a delegation, in Apia, Samoa this week. The South Pacific Area Seminar hosted by Methodist Church of Samoa, gathers influential female leaders, hundreds of women, and community members from across the region and the world to discuss key issues in the South Pacific, and strengthening faith and spreading of the Gospel.
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Thursday 5 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Ngalu Fānifo Regional Project is a Pacific-led project that aims to improve mental health and wellbeing in Tonga and Vanuatu, by strengthening the capacity of health and community providers to provide mental health care. The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) will led the three-year programme, in partnership with Tonga and Vanuatu Ministries of Health, and funded by the Australian Government.
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Thursday 5 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The 'Ikale Tahi team will be captained by Ben Tameifuna to clash with the Flying Fijians tomorrow, Friday, 6 September, with kick-off set for 4:00pm Tonga time, at Teufaiva Stadium, in Nuku'alofa.
Wednesday 4 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Pacific Island Chiefs of Police Forum (PICP) was officially opened yesterday, 3 September by the Prime Minister and Minister for Police, Hon. Hu’akavameiliku.
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Wednesday 4 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI) was endorsed by the Pacific leaders at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting last week, on 28 August. The Pacific Policing Initiative is a new regional initiative to strengthen collective peace and security throughout the Pacific.
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Wednesday 4 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Kuo tuku atu ‘a e Fakamatala Fokotu‘utu‘u Ngāue Fakapa’anga ‘o ‘Aokosi 2024 ‘o e Pangikē Pule Fakafonua ‘a Tonga hili hono tali ia ‘e he Poate ‘a e kau Talēkita. ‘I he fengāue‘aki vāofi mo e Pule’anga ́ mo e ngaahi kupu kehekehe fekau’aki, ‘e fokotu’u ai ‘e he Pangikē Pule ́ ha ngaahi polokalama fakapa’anga fo’ou ‘o hangē ko ha polokalama nō ‘oku tuku atu ‘i ha totongi tupu ‘oku ma’ulalo (concessional credit), pea mo ha polokalama ki hono malu’i ‘a e ngaahi nō (credit guarantees). Ko e fakataumu’a ‘eni ke fakaivia ‘a e sekitoa taautaha ́ ke toe malohi ange ‘a e tupu faka’ekonōmika ́ ‘i he 2025 ́ pea faka‘ai‘ai ‘a e nō ki he ngaahi sekitoa ‘oku ‘ikai ke lahi ha’anau faingamalie nō mei he ngaahi pangikē, mo kinautolu ‘oku tu’u laveangofua ki he feliuliuaki ‘a e ‘ea ́.
Wednesday 4 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The National Reserve Bank of Tonga (NRBT) released its Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for August 2024 following its approval by the Board of Directors. In collaboration with Government and other relevant stakeholders, the NRBT is introducing new financing instruments such as a concessional credit facility and a partial credit guarantee scheme to boost private sector financing towards stronger growth recovery in 2025, particularly fostering access to financing for underserved and climate change-vulnerable sectors.
Tuesday 3 September 2024
Auckland, New Zealand
A vision aid team from the School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of Auckland will be visiting Tonga for a week from 30 September to 4 October to provide voluntary eye-care to those who need it the most. The team will be based at the Eye Health Clinic at Vaiola Hospital.
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Tuesday 3 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
British Barrister, Malcom Bishop KC, officially assumed office as the new Lord Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tonga and President of the Land Court on 2 September 2024.
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Tuesday 3 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The United Kingdom is supporting Pacific-led climate solutions with £12.9 million in new funding announced as Indo-Pacific Minister Catherine West joined Pacific
leaders for the 53rd Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga, on her first overseas visit.
Monday 2 September 2024
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Pacific Islands Forum has censored Taiwan from its leader's communiqué that was announced on Friday, 30 August, to members of the media at Fa’onelua Convention Centre by Troika.
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Monday 2 September 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga’s National Football team, Tu’ulalupe, will compete against the Cook Islands on Friday, 6 September, at the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (Oceania), in Apia, Samoa.
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Saturday 31 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
One big priority for the annual UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29) is to make the climate Loss and Damage Fund operational, said HE Mukhtar Babayev, the COP29 President-Designate, who was in Tonga this week to meet Pacific Islands leaders, attending the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting.
Friday 30 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The first Pacific-led and member-owned climate and disaster resilience financing facility, the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) will be headquartered in Tonga. The PRF has got a total pledges of USD$137 million, as announced today, at Fa'onelua Center, by Troika as one of the important outcomes of the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga this week.
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Friday 30 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific joined prime ministers and presidents from across the Region and United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Tonga this week. At the high-level meeting, Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala called on leaders of Pacific islands and other countries to make health a high priority on their agenda, in the context of the climate catastrophe that is putting the Pacific in peril.
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Friday 30 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The European Union Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, made a site visit to the Climate and Wash Resilience Community Project, at Popua this week.
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Friday 30 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Meleane Falemaka, a first time Paralympian, is the only para-athlete representing Tonga at the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. She will compete in the Women's F38 Discuss on Friday, 6 September.
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Thursday 29 August 2024
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Australia’s Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Hon. Pat Conroy MP visited the MORDI Tonga Trust facilities today, one of several site visits he has made in Tongatapu, on the side of the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Nuku'alofa. The Australian Government is investing AUD$9.5 million in a new partnership to deliver critical, climate resilient infrastructure and activities to communities across the Kingdom of Tonga.
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Thursday 29 August 2024
Neiafu, Vava'u
Pacific Island Forum Leaders flew to Vava'u this morning on chartered flights for the Leaders Retreat Meeting of the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting 2024, held at the Puataukanave Hotel in Neiafu. The fourth day of their gathering turned on blue skies in contrast to the torrential downpours that greeted the ministers on their first day in Tongatapu on Monday.
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