Results for Tonga

Samoa has been granted US$14.6 Million by the World Bank to improve the resistance of coastal communities against natural disasters.

Bishop Soane Lilo Foliaki SM (80), who served as the Catholic Bishop of Tonga and Niue from 1994 until 2008, died in Nuku‘alofa on Christmas Eve.

Four babies were born in Tonga’s hospitals on New Year's morning, the first at Ngu Hospital, Vavau, and three at Vaiola Hospital in Tongatapu.

The Inaugural “South Pacific Islands Christmas in the Park 2013” on Saturday December 14 in Brisbane, Australia, brought a South Pacific twist to a community Christmas celebration with dances and prayers. Matangi Tonga Online reader, Sulieni Layt shares photos of the event that has won three-year funding support from the Brisbane City Council's community festivals program. [Matangi Tonga Online readers: Please send us your photos of the festive season, from wherever you are around the world- Editor]

The new Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Tonga HE Mr Huang Huaguang, presented his credentials to HM King Tupou VI last week.

King Tupou VI opened Foa's upgraded causeway linking Foa island to the main island of Lifuka in Ha’apai yesterday December 19.

Tongan luger Bruno Banani has qualified to compete at the 22nd Winter Olympics in February next year in Sochi, Russia. He becomes Tonga's first winter olympian.

With just over a week before Christmas international and domestic flights in Tonga have increased to meet the demand of travellers during the peak holiday season.

Tonga Power Ltd. paid the Tonga government a dividend of $389,369 pa’anga on Tuesday, 10 December at the Annual General Meeting of the Tonga Power Board, as the first part of a T$1 million dividend for the financial year.