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The Crown has yet to decide if it should apply to re-open the criminal sedition case against four People's Representatives of 2006 who were acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy by the Appeal Court of Tonga on Wednesday, September 9.

Five People's Representatives in the Tongan parliament in 2006 are acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy because of inadequate evidence by the Crown, in a decision released by Tonga's Appeal Court on Wednesday.

Katei Taufa (31), who stabbed his wife to death in Vaini on February 21, was sentenced to life imprisonment today at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes a decision by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to conduct a war crimes investigation into the murder of five Australian-based journalists, known as the Balibo Five, during Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975.

A four-year-old Popua boy died on Tuesday, from sever injuries inflicted as a result of domestic violence, and a man charged with his murder will appear in court next week.

An increasing number of crimes commited in Tongatapu last week included a, manslaughter, two rapes and a suicide, along with more cases of assault and housebreaking according to the Tonga Police.

Ko e 'uhinga 'eku fakafetu'utaki atu tupu'anga mei hoku tuonga'ane ko Pelenato Pome'e mei Makave Vava'u, ko e pasese 'o e MV Princess Ashika na'e lavea mei he ngoto 'a e vaka. Ko e tu'u he taimini kia Pelenato 'oku vaeua 'e ne mo'ui mo kei faingata'a'ia tupu mei hono lavea mei he ngoto 'a e vaka. 'Oku ou lau hifo 'i he news ko'eni 'i he Matangi Tonga online fekau'aki mo e fu'u pa'anga lau miliona 'oku ma'u 'e he Pule'anga Tonga ko e 'ofa mei muli mo e kakai kehe kehe pe ke tokoni'i 'a e kau victims mo honau ngaahi famili.

Sir paul Reeves, Special Representative of Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, will arrive in Fiji on 8 September for a two-day visit.

Many bereaved families from the Ashika ferry disaster have expressed a need for assistance in financing the education of their children, said Sione Tupouniua, an American Tongan, who completed a two-week fact-finding mission to Tonga at the weekend.