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Tuesday 15 November 2011
Noosa, Queensland,Australia
The Tonga Women's Sevens program took another step forward this week, with the national team making the Cup Final against the reigning world champions, the Australian Pearls, at the Noosa International 7's Festival in Noosa, Queensland. By Lano Fonua.
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Monday 14 November 2011

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A commemoration service to mark the Remembrance Sunday 2011 was held at the Cenotaph, Pangai Si'i on Sunday 13 November, when HM King George Tupou V laid a wreath at the memorial.
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Sunday 13 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The construction of a $12 million Solar Farm on Tongatapu, began with an official groundbreaking ceremony at the Popua Power Station on Thursday, 10 November.
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Saturday 12 November 2011
Neiafu, Vava'u
Marching in defiance, and singing hymns, over 200 protestors petitioned the office of the Vava'u Governor, Lord Fulivai, yesterday morning, opposing a move by government to create a monopoly shipping service between New Zealand and Vava'u.
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Friday 11 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
British Campaign Medals were today awarded to Tonga's first contingent of 55 soldiers who were deployed to Afghanistan at the end of 2010.
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Friday 11 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Seven New Zealand rugby players and a rugby trainer, visiting Tonga this week, under New Zealand's Pacific Prevention of Domestic Violence Programme, visited schools and conducted training with young rugby players.
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Friday 11 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A group of business people from the island of Okinawa in southern Japan visited Tonga for four days from November 5-9.
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Wednesday 9 November 2011
Sapa'ata, Niuafo'ou (Tin-Can Island)
On behalf of the Parents and Teachers' Association, we would like to approach you with a request for your financial assistance in order to be able to purchase the necessary book prizes for the Niuafo'ou District High School Prize Giving Ceremony, scheduled for November 29, 2011. Letters from students are attached. -Viliami Vea, 'Aloma Kata, Tevita Kata, Latai Lama, Susitina Peei (Niuafo'ou District High School); and 'Ana Emberson, the Niuas Foundation.
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Tuesday 8 November 2011
Canberra, Australia
The Pacific Women's Empowerment Dialogue on Stopping Violence Against Women met at Australia's Parliament House in Canberra last week. The meeting was co-hosted by AusAid and the US Department of State.
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Monday 7 November 2011
Noumea, New Caledonia
Heads of government, ministers and ambassadors from 22 Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs) and Australia, France, New Zealand and the USA are meeting in Noumea, New Caledonia for the 7th Conference of the Pacific Community, which starts on Monday 7 November.
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Sunday 6 November 2011
Noumea, New Caledonia
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) and the Pacific Power Association (PPA), the two leading development agencies in the Pacific region's energy sector, today (4 Nov) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), effectively enabling the intergovernmental organisations to combine their resources and offer greater assistance and benefits to Pacific Islands countries and territories (PICTs). - SPC.
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Sunday 6 November 2011
Suva, Fiji
The 73rd USP Council meeting was held at the Video Conference Room of the Japan-Pacific ICT Centre at USP's Laucala Campus from 3 - 4 November 2011. The Council normally meets twice a year to discuss the affairs of the University.
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Saturday 5 November 2011
Neiafu, Vava'u
Vaitai Havea (16) is the 2011 dux of the Saineha High School, Vava'u, announced during the school's annual prize-giving ceremony on October 30.
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Saturday 5 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
New Zealand's Pacific Prevention of Domestic Violence Programme (PPDVP) on November 7 is bringing a group of eight rugby representatives to Tonga for a week, where they will visit schools and community groups, promoting the slogan, "Break the Silence, End the Violence".
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Saturday 5 November 2011

Nuku'alofa, Tonga
One year on from last November's general election that heralded political reform, it is timely to look closely at how Tonga’s new government is shaping-up during the first year of its four-year term in office. Editor's Comment FROM OUR ARCHIVES
Friday 4 November 2011
Neiafu, Vava'u
Ko e tefito'I palopalema lahi taha 'o e ngoue he ngaahi 'aho ni ko e fakamaketi. Ko e faka'amu 'a e tangata ngoue, ke 'I ai ha taha te ne lava 'o fakahoko 'a e fakamaketi 'o hange koia na'e fakahoko 'e he Poate 'o e ngaahi Koloa – ko e me'a tepuu, ke ma'u 'a e seniti 'i he taimi pe koia 'o e fakatau. Ka lava lelei 'a e fakamaketi, pea 'oku ou tui he 'ikai toe tuku ha ivi 'o e kau ngoue. Ka fu'u lahi 'a e ngoue pea 'oku 'ikai ngata pe 'I he'ene toe 'o 'ikai 'osi hono fakatau, ka 'oku toe holo hifo foki mo e mahu'inga 'o fakatau li'aki. – Paula Kava.
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Thursday 3 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A Seismic Network for Earthquake Observation in Tonga was launched yesterday at the Tonga government's Geological Services Unit at Vaololoa, Nuku'alofa.
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Wednesday 2 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The growth prospect for the Tongan economy is expected to remain slow in the next six months on the back of uncertainty in the global economy, according to a statement from the National Reserve Bank of Tonga on November 1.
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Wednesday 2 November 2011
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A Tongan Women’s Rugby Seven-a-side team will be competing in two Rugby Seven-a-side tournaments in Brisbane, Australia, this month.
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Tuesday 1 November 2011
Washington DC, USA
Bob Woodward, one of America's best known journalists, believes that journalists should be persistent and relentless in pursuing the truth. By Linny Folau.
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