Results for Tonga

The New Zealand Government is investing to improve aviation safety in eight Pacific Countries, including Tonga. Land users around airports are urged to attend consultations to be carried out before a national project commences in October 2016 focusing on Fua'amotu Airport (Tongatapu), Lupepau'u Airport (Vava'u), Salote Mafile’o Pilolevu Airport (Ha'apai) and Kuini Mata'aho Airport (Niuatoputapu). Satellite technology will be used to develop new flight approaches, which will improve the ability of aircraft to land safely.

Women of the Free Church of Tonga (Siasi Tonga Tau’ataina) dressed in their finest white outfits complete with fantastic hats, gathered in Nuku'alofa on Wednesday, September 21 for their annual 'Faka-Sepitema' roll call. Photos by Linny Folau.

Ministers and parliamentarians from the Commonwealth, including Tonga, spoke at a panel on Migration in the Commonwealth: International Movement and Human Rights Challenges and Opportunities, at the United Nations General Assembly on 18 September in New York.

Tonga’s Ana Talakai (31) and Sione Manu (37) achieved their personal bests at the Rio Paralympics in Rio in the Javelin Throw and Shot Put events.

‘Iteni Maile (38) died when the Pajero vehicle he was driving crashed into a container on the side of By-Pass Road at Pahu early Sunday morning, September 18.

Police are looking for a masked intruder who broke into a shop at Kolofo’ou and tied up a 24-year-old Chinese man before stealing goods and $3,000 pa'anga cash on Sunday morning, 18 September.

A $10 million pa'anga project to build the largest solar energy plant in Tongatapu, follows the signing of a long term Power Purchase Agreement between Tonga Power Ltd. and a Chinese power producer on September 12, 2016, for the construction and commissioning of a 2 Megawatt solar facility at at Mata-ki-‘Eua, which is expected to be fully operational by mid-2017.

A 36-year-old man died when the Pajero vehicle he was driving crashed into a container that was on the roadside on By-Pass Road at Pahu early Sunday morning, September 18.

About 70% of Tonga’s annual breadfruit yield just rots on the ground and only 30% is consumed as food and for export, a Pacific Breadfruit Roundtable Meeting held in Tonga, learned this week. But breadfruit exports are increasing rapidly.