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'Oku toe si'i pea tau a'u ki he Ipu 'a mamani ka ne mahino mai he fe'auhi ne 'osi 'oku kei lahi e me'a ke fakalelei'i kapau te tau fiema'u ke si'isi e kai 'oe All Blacks. Ko 'eku timi faka'amu pe ena 'a'aku ki he Ipu 'a mamani. – Pola Loiti.

The delegation– including Tonga’s Speaker of the House Lord Lasike and Hon. Douglas Ete from Soloman Islands – joined government representatives and guests from over 30 Commonwealth countries at a private dinner on Friday 21 July.

A six-member delegation from the French Senate visited Tonga for the first time this week to learn first hand about Tonga's political, economic social and cultural life.

A 36-year-old man who broke into a home in Kolofo'ou and stole a mobile phone and assaulted a woman was sentenced to three years at Hu'atolitoli Prison at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa, on July 21.

An under-water telecommunication fiber optical cable network to connect Tonga to the rest of the world should be in operation before the end of 2012, according to Paula Ma'u, the Chief Executive Officer for Tonga's Ministry of Communication and Information.

Pressing challenges, such as a changing climate and volatile food prices, require that policy makers have more open and constructive exchanges about their experiences to achieve progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), senior officials of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) said ahead of a South-South cooperation meeting in China from 21 to 27 July.

New Zealand has committed TOP$3 million pa'anga to assist community development programs in Tonga's remote outer island communities through MORDI Tonga Trust whose target is to fight against poverty through provision of skills training and community projects.

Commonwealth leaders meeting in Perth in October this year will discuss the efforts being made with the G20 for what the Commonwealth Secretary General today called "innovative sources of funding for trade and growth resilience", an idea that he said was now accepted by the World Bank. By Mary Lyn Fonua.

A Matahau mother of nine children received a three years suspended jail sentence this afternoon July 19, and was disqualified from driving for six years, on a conviction for manslaughter by negligence for running over a sleeping man on a road at Fatai in 2009.