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TONGA'S Coronation celebrations will begin with a national sports competition for 17 different sports. The events planned for July 26 to August 2, prior to the Coronation day on August 3, will include aquatic, outdoor and indoor sports.

A Tokomololo man, Toluhama 'Ahotau, appeared at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court yesterday, charged with one count of murdering a co-worker at the Vete Poultry Company Ltd. in 2005.

Fifty Tongan children will have a head start at school this year thanks to the Back to School promotion run by the Western Union Company (NYSE:WU), a worldwide leader in money transfer services.

The problem with people like me who knows nothing about anything is: we tend to make a lot of speculations from respectable people's opinions. After reading the article about the US Ambassador's (Mr. Larry M. Dinger) comments in his recent visit to the kingdom, it left a lot of room for me to read between the lines.- TamaFoa

Miriam Ngaue (21) a student of Ma'ufanga was crowned Miss Valentine 2008 last night, winning a cash prize of $1,000 pa'anga and all expenses paid trip to compete in the Miss Tourism Queen International in China next month.

Today, in handing down prison terms ranging from 11 years to six months on a group of seven 16/11 rioters, Chief Justice Anthony Ford said that everyone in Tonga would remember this day, "as a day of infamy and shame where there was no law and order and anarchy prevailed."

Fiji Commission Against Corruption (FICAC) Deputy Commissioner George Langman says more prominent people are expected to face corruption-related charges.

The body of a ship's engineer, Vai Vuetibula Pogiono (24), from Ono i Lau, Fiji, has been identified after being found washed up on the western foreshore of Queen Salote Wharf on Saturday morning, February 9.

Tonga's bankers, who are very concerned with Tonga's currently depressed export earnings, and its reliance on aid donors and foreign remittances for its source of foreign earnings, will meet today to consider solutions.