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After years of living with candle-light, two families in the Sopu area of Nuku‘alofa, were overjoyed to receive the first electric lights in their homes, after a Tongan grandmother Siutiti Halatoa (51) who trained in solar engineering in India last year, installed the first solar panels under a community led project, this morning May 8.

Singer Spawnbreezie is in Nuku'alofa and will perform a concert tonight at 'Api Fo'ou College Hall, in Ma'ufanga.

A Samoan singer, Spawnbreezie will arrive in Tonga on April 18 to perform a number of concerts in Nuku'alofa.

Lord Sevele, who was Tonga's Prime Minister for five years, from February 2006 to December 2011, during the planning and the implementation of the Political Reform Program, has described HM the late King George Tupou V as "a visionary leader and a man of substance," who further democratized Tonga's Constitutional Monarchy system of government by surrendering to parliament some of his executive power. Interview by Pesi Fonua.

Tonga's new king, King Tupou VI bestowed the title Crown Prince Tupouto'a on his eldest son Prince 'Ulukalala 27 on Friday, 30 March at his resident Liukava.

HM King George Tupou V, the reformer, continued to inspire changes even in death. In the procedures of his funeral ceremony, there were some clear departures from the norm. Photos by Pesi Fonua, Mary Lyn Fonua, Linny Folau and Peter Poulsen.

A shortened official mourning period for the late King George Tupou V will end for the public on Saturday, March 31 after the "Pongipongi Tapu" ceremony at Pangai Lahi, but the traditional ceremonies will continue for the Royal Family.

The late King George Tupou V is being laid to rest this afternoon at the Royal Tombs, Mala'e Kula, on a bright sunny afternoon in a quiet capital, Nuku'alofa. Photos by Pesi Fonua, Mary Lyn Fonua, Linny Folau and Peter Poulsen.

A surreal atmosphere of quietness descended upon the Fua'amotu International Airport this afternoon, after the China Southern Airlines Airbus touched down at about 1.40 pm carrying the body of the late king, HM King George Tupou V. Photos by Pesi Fonua.