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Sunday 4 September 2016

Suva, Fiji
The Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, Hon. Henry Puna is the new Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific (USP) and was officially installed at a graduation ceremony on 26 August in Fiji.
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Friday 2 September 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Litterers will be fined in a new regulation that came into effect in May this year aimed to keep our environment clean by changing the way people dispose of their rubbish and penalizing those who do not do the right thing.
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Friday 2 September 2016
Suva, Fiji
A delegation from Kabariki village on Kadavu Island in Fiji has asked for the safe removal of a Tongan vessel MV Sitka from its waters after it got stuck on a reef due to mechanical problems on 21 August. The boat currently has 20,000 litres of fuel on board.
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Friday 2 September 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Prime Minister Hon ‘Akilisi Pohiva and his delegation are attending meetings including the 10th Pacific Island Conference of Leaders in Honolulu from August 30 to September 1. He is also expected to attend the 47th Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Pohnpei next week.
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Friday 2 September 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Digicel has launched faster internet connectivity to Ha'apai and Vava'u, which is five times faster than the current speed and it will also match data experience currently in Tongatapu. The internet speed will increase from 1Mbps to 5Mbps with 200Mbps capacity.
Friday 2 September 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The first meeting of a High Performance Unit with National Federations was held on Thursday, 1 September in Nuku’alofa and attended by 18-year-old Tongan Olympian Karoline Lusitania Tatafu, the first female archer to represent Tonga at the Rio Olympics.
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Thursday 1 September 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Chinese MA60 aircraft that was scheduled to resume its domestic air service earlier this month, remains grounded indefinitely, Tevita Palu the CEO for the Real Tonga domestic airline told Matangi Tonga yesterday, 31 August.
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Thursday 1 September 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Four Tongan nationals who have been charged with forgery, receiving bribery and other related charges regarding a complaint over a Tongan passport application that allegedly involved a forged birth certificate, will appear for trial starting on Monday, September 12 in Nuku’alofa.
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Thursday 1 September 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A decision by the Tongan Parliament on 24 August for the Auditor General to audit the ‘Eua Forest Reserve and then report back to the House has surprised many members of the public, since government has already leased the ‘Eua Forest Reserve to a Maori Trust for 50 years in an agreement signed on 17 June 2016. From the House, by Pesi Fonua.
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Thursday 1 September 2016

New York, USA
Tonga and Poland have established diplomatic relations in a Joint Communique was signed on 31 August in New York.
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Tuesday 30 August 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A fast ferry service between Tongatapu, Ha’apai and Vava'u on a 29m catamaran, MV Maggie Cat, was launched with a commissioning ceremony held at the Queen Salote Wharf this afternoon, 30 August 2016.
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Tuesday 30 August 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Three men remain hospitalized after their vehicle crashed into the fence at the Captain Cook's Landing site in 'Alaki, early this morning.
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Tuesday 30 August 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Forty-one people were arrested for alleged drunk driving and disorderly conduct mainly in central Nuku’alofa last weekend in the fifth-week of Operation Safe Streets that focuses on preventing alcohol related crimes in Tongatapu.
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Tuesday 30 August 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Around 900 young primary school students from 49 Primary Schools in the central, western and eastern districts of Tongatapu participated in a regional soroban competition that ended on Thursday, 25 August with top students to enter a national competition in 2017.
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Tuesday 30 August 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga Police called off a search and recovery operation on Monday, 29 August after there were no sightings of missing swimmer Meleki Finau (20) who was reported to have been swept out at sea at the Blow Holes in Houma on Sunday, 21 August.
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Monday 29 August 2016
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Lord Chief Justice O. G. Paulsen on 25 August at the Nuku’alofa Supreme Court ordered the Prime Minister, Hon. ‘Akilisi Pohiva and the Audit and Governance Authority of the 2019 Pacific Games to refrain from removing Lord Sevele-‘o-Vailahi from his position as the Chief Executive Officer of the Tonga Pacific Games Organizing Committee, and to pay all remuneration and other benefits due to him that has been withheld since 1 July 2016.
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Monday 29 August 2016

Suva, Fiji
The singers of the University of the South Pacific’s (USP) Pasifika Voices have been recorded for the soundtrack of the much anticipated Hollywood Disney Animation 'Moana', to be released in November this year.
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Monday 29 August 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fifteen participants completed a five-day Management Accounting for NGOs (MANGO) Training for non-finance managers and finance officers on Friday, 26 August in Nuku’alofa.
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Monday 29 August 2016

Auckland, New Zealand
HRH Princess Pilolevu Tuita opened the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Pasifika Medical Association, on Thursday, 25 August at the Rendezvous Hotel in Auckland.
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Monday 29 August 2016

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongatapu’s two-day Royal Agricultural, Fisheries and Tonga Made Show 2016 was finally opened on Friday 26 August by Crown Prince Tupouto’a ‘Ulukalala, after being delayed twice due to bad weather. Photos by Linny Folau and Caroline Manu-Moli.
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