Fe'ao Latu, the Tongan rugby player who died suddenly in France on January 11 was laid to rest this afternoon at Punga Cemetery, Lakepa, Tongatapu.
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Wednesday 28 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa,Tongatapu
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Friday 23 January 2009
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Cahors, France
The funeral of Tongan rugby player Fe'ao Latu (28) is expected to be held at Lakepa in Tongatapu next week.
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Thursday 22 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
TONGAN international goalkeeper, Mele Likiliki of Fasi mo e Afi, is a nominee for the Oceania Football Confederation's Women's Player of the Year 2008 Award.
She is among 15 top women football players from Oceania who have been short-listed for the OFC's top award to be announced in April.
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Wednesday 21 January 2009
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Perigueux, France
The life of Tongan flanker Fe'ao Latu was celebrated by family and friends in a Memorial Mass held at the Perigueux, Saint Front Cathedral, the largest cathedral in Southwest France, on Monday, January 19. Memorial mass at Saint Front Cathedral
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Wednesday 21 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The human race has around five billion years to plan their evacuation from planet earth, says scientist Chas A. Egan, Tonga's only astrophysicist, "because five billion years from now the sun will burn itself out and life on earth will not be sustainable." By Pesi Fonua
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Friday 16 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
One of the oldest remaining wooden buildings of Nuku'alofa, known as 'Shirley Baker's House', which is over 140 years old, was demolished today. Photos by Pesi Fonua
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Friday 16 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The funeral of Tongan flanker Fe'ao Latu who died from a heart attack in Cahors, Southwest France, on January 11 will be held next week in Tonga.
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Wednesday 14 January 2009
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Cahors, France
Fe'ao Latu, a 28 year old Tongan flanker for the Perigueux Club tragically died of a heart attack after collapsing during a game in France on Sunday, January 11.
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Monday 12 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Devolo, a Tongan-born New Zealand rapper, surprised the residents of Patangata this morning when he and his friends arrived with a van-load of flour, sugar, noodles and candy, a New Year present for the needy.
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Tuesday 6 January 2009
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Tokyo, Japan
A 24-year-old Toshiba Brave Lupus rugby player has been arrested on suspicion of theft, The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper has learned.
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Monday 5 January 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Australian Rugby Union football star Mark Gerrard and his sister Mo'onia, an Australian national netball player spent Christmas in Tonga reconnecting with their family at Nukunuku.
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Wednesday 24 December 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
King George Tupou V's Coronation Exhibition was officially opened on December 22 by Princess Angelika Latufuipeka Tuku'aho at the Fa'onelua Convention Centre in Nuku'alofa.
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Friday 19 December 2008
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Taupo, New Zealand
A Friendly Islands Triathlon New Zealand member, Marie Fonua completed the Taupo Half Ironman in 6 hours 4 minutes on Saturday, December 13.
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Monday 15 December 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Dr S. Langi Kavaliku who passed away on December 3 was put to rest at the Mamana Mau 'Aho Cemetery, in the grounds of Tonga College, overlooking the village of Ha'ateiho on Friday December 12.
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Monday 15 December 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two fearless young Tongan athletes have been selected to go to Germany to be trained in the Luge Sport in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
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Monday 8 December 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
It appeared as though Tonga had finally won a gold medal from the Beijing Olympic Games and it had arrived in Nuku'alofa, when Valerie Vili, New Zealand's Olympic Shot Put Gold Medalist, was welcomed by the Tongan Prime Minister, Dr Feleti Sevele at a special reception in her honour at the start of the Olympian's week long visit to her mother's homeland.Photos by Pesi Fonua.
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Sunday 7 December 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Dr S. Langi Kavaliku (69), Tonga's most outstanding scholar, a former Prime Minister, a former Cabinet member for 33 years, and newly appointed alternate chairman of Tonga's Political Reform Commission died in an accident at about 8 am on Wednesday, December 3, when his vehicle hit a mound of rocks that was left in the middle of a country road.
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Wednesday 3 December 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
'Ana Teufolau Ma'afu (18) from Kolovai, Tongatapu became the Dux of Tonga High School during their 2008 Prize Giving Ceremony held today, December 3.
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Wednesday 3 December 2008
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New Zealand
MARIE Fonua, a member of the Friendly Islands Triathlon (FIT) is currently training in New Zealand, as part of her preparation to represent Tonga at the 2009 South Pacific Mini Games, at Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
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Tuesday 2 December 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga is aiming to ratify the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage before the next Session of the UNESCO General Conference in October 2009, Tonga's Minister of Education, Women's Affairs and Culture Hon. Rev. Dr Tevita Palefau said today.
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