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The Government of Australia will provide funds totaling T$1,606,234.00, for nineteen (19) projects in Tongatapu, seventeen (17) in Ha'apai and four (4) in Vava'u as outlined in the Attachment.

An Australian five-members delegation are currently in Tonga to hold talk with Tonga's Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries about sending seasonal workers to Australia.

Noble Tu'ilakepa, the Speaker of the Tongan Parliament, caused an uproar in the House on Tuesday September 2 when he pleaded with the Prime Minister and the Cabinet to reduce the 20 per cent tax imposed on the incomes of members of parliament. From the House by Pesi Fonua

The United States may start its periodic non-immigrant visa (NIV) services in Nuku'alofa before the end of November this year, said the Deputy Secretary of Tonga's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tevita Kolokihakaufisi on Friday.

The Tonga government has yet to make a decision on whether to further extend the Emergency Powers (Maintenance of Public Order) Regulation 2007, the Chief Secretary and Secretary to Cabinet Mrs 'Eseta Fusitu'a said today.

The two young players for Tonga's National Aussie Rules team, who were hit by a vehicle while training at Ha'ateiho on August 20, will never be able to walk again due to serious spinal injuries that have left them paralysed. Paumolevuka Tu'i (18) of Talafo'ou and Mafua Kiokata (22) of Nukunuku, whose aspirations and passion was to play the sport, remain helpless in Vaiola Hospital. The two victims are conscious but are unable to move their bodies and legs.

ALEX Bellini, an Italian who is rowing across the Pacific Ocean from Lima, Peru, to Sydney, Australia, alone and unassisted is reported to be about 100 miles to the east of Tongatapu today, September 4.

Reports from Tonga's newspapers, August 21-28, 2008. Two members of Tonga's national Aussie Rules team are paralysed after an accident on August 20. Mafua of Nukunuku and Paumolevuka of Talafo'ou were jogging with the rest of the team along Taufa'ahau Rd. in Nuku'alofa when a van driven by team official Lopaki Fifita was struck at the rear by another vehicle.

An affluent second generation of young Tongans born in Australia are being targeted by a regional airline, which is promoting Tonga as a holiday destination.