Results for People

A group of young talented dancers "The Jesters" from Kolofo'ou won a first prize of $4,000 in Cool 90 FM's Hip-Hop Competition 2012, before a full house at the 'Atele Indoor Stadium on Friday night 30 November.

Little Italy Hotel and Restaurant showcased its renovated restaurant and rooms, with a celebration on the evening of November 27, when the owners, Angelo and Meleseini Crapanzano, draped the front of the two storey hotel with an Italian flag. Photos by Linny Folau.

Twenty-two students from high schools and tertiary institutes in Tonga will travel to Japan for three-weeks under the inaugural 'Kizuna Project', a youth exchange program aimed to promote other countries understanding of Japan's road to recovery after the Great East Japan Earthquake, in March 2011.

A new two-storey training facility for the Girl Guides Association of the Kingdom of Tonga, built with assistance from the Government of Japan, was opened by Hon. Halaevalu Moheofo Tuita on 19 November.

More than 150 women in Vava'u underwent free testing for breast cancer and one woman who was detected with a lump was referred to hospital, during the first Breast Cancer Awareness program launched on October 26-27, in Tonga's outer islands.

The first published copy of a new book "Lakalaka, a Tongan Masterpiece of Performing Arts" was presented to HM Queen Nanasipau'u Tuku'aho this morning at Consular House, by the Tongan publisher Vava'u Press Ltd.

Tongan-born Malia 'o Lotolua 'Ulu'ave Ma'u (22) who is searching for her father's family, is about to return to New Zealand disappointed that she could find no relatives in Tonga after a two months long search.

Breast cancer ranks as one of the top 20 causes of death in Tonga and the rate is higher here than in the developed countries because women are leaving it too late to come forward for detection and treatment, speakers at the launch of "Pink October" for public awareness said this morning. A Vaiola Hospital surgeon Dr Saia Piukala called for traditional and religious healers and all Tongans to become involved in the talanoa on breast cancer in order to save more lives. Photos by Linny Folau.

New Zealand's High Commissioner to Tonga, HE Dr Jonathan Austin, will return to Wellington on Monday, September 24 at the end of a two-years term, to head the Middle East and Africa Division at their Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.