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Fijian hip hop crew, BSQ are set to get the crowds jumping at this year's Fest'Napuan music festival in Vanuatu as the winners of the Pacific Break 2011 competition after their slick dance track'Rue Ele Ele remix' was selected as the winning song.

After a six years lapse, the Tongatapu's Royal Agriculture, Fisheries and Industries Show returns with abundant displays of traditional Tongan foods, beautiful handmade handicrafts as well as seafood fish at the Manamou'i Grounds at 'Atele from October 14-15.

In a year that has seen a dramatic increase in armed robberies in Tonga, parliament voted to massively reduce the penalties for the illegal possession of firearms - slashing the maximum penalty from $5,000 to only $1,000 and from five years imprisonment to only one year.

The Speaker of the Tongan Parliament, Lord Lasike is expected to appear at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa today on the charge of unlawful possession of ammunition for .22 rifles.

Tonga Defence Services rugby team enters the semifinal at the first International Defence Rugby Cup Competition after beating the New Zealand Defence Force 27-26 in Sydney yesterday, October 13.

A parliamentary tour report presented by 'Akilisi Pohiva to the House was thrown out on October 5 after a majority concluded that the report was irrelevant, unreliable and not clearly representing the views of his constituency, Tongatapu 1. The decision was unprecedented in the history of parliamentary tours. The member's response to the criticisms was that the report was written by a woman who accompanied him. From the House By Pesi Fonua. Premium Content.

Tonga's sea cucumber harvesting season was extended for two weeks from September 30, the Ministry of Fisheries confirmed today, October 15.

'Ikale Tahi captain Finau Maka was popular in pink today as a special guest at an annual fundraising luncheon for the "Pink October Breast Cancer Awareness" programme.

Australia may be sheltering hundreds of millions of black dollars funnelled out of South Pacific countries by corrupt politicians and public officials, with the money laundering being tolerated by an unconcerned federal government. – The Age.