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A new process of certification aimed to better facilitate arriving passengers into New Zealand travelling with specific food items in umu packs from Tonga, is expected to be implemented in November, after a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on October 4 in Nuku'alofa. CEO Ministry for Primary Industries (MPIE), Roger Smith said they found travellers from Tonga have been very compliant and trustworthy.

Whatever the reason for Asia’s profusion of strongmen, people and markets have gotten it wrong for too long. Strongman rulers are bad for democracy, and they are really bad for the economy. By Jayati Ghosh.

More than $20,000 pa’anga worth of various goods were reportedly stolen from the Langafonua ‘a Fafine Tonga centre, in Nuku’alofa last month.

A robbery at a home in Hala’ovave in Tongatapu targeted valuable Tongan mats and other handicrafts.

The Prime Minister Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva warned parliament yesterday, 2 October, that hatred in the House against him and his government could escalate to a national upheaval. Lord Nuku responded that there was no hatred in the House, and they were debating a report of the Auditor General.

The government is using a cash accounting system - a practice that they have been trying to change during the past 10 years, the Minister of Finance and a former Auditor General, Hon. Pohiva Tu‘i‘onetoa told parliament last week. From the House by Pesi Fonua.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder in relation to the death of a 40-year-old man at Vaiola Hospital on September 26.

Over 30 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in Tonga every year, Dr Amelia Afuhaamango Tu‘ipulotu told the Tonga Breast Cancer Society this morning, October 1, at the launch of their Pink October breast cancer awareness campaign. “The number may be higher because many women do not come forward,” she said.

A 51-year-old man was found dead at a bush allotment in Pelehake on Saturday afternoon, September 29.