Results for People

Tongan, Michael Burling of Gisbourne won the 2009 Hyundai Pro Longboard Tour on Saturday March 28 at Port Waikato, New Zealand.

A private jet arrived at Fua'amotu International Airport this week for a 12 hour stopover bringing a group of 75 Americans who dropped into Tonga for breakfast, to see a special performance of Tonga's extraordinary Lakalaka. The group who were on a Smithsonian Journey and Starquest Expedition's Extraordinary Cultures Tour, arrived in Tonga at mid-night on Wednesday, March 18, and left at mid-day Thursday, March 19.

The discovery of Foa petroglyphs reminds us of the prolong regional inter- and intra-migration between the West and East of Oceania, and North and South, in a complex and pluralistic nature of opposite and reversible directions since the arrival of our Moanan ancestors from South-East Asia prior to the Birth of Christ (Vikings of the South Seas). Such Vikings were travelling back and forth between islands, even further to the South of the New World and islands like Tikopia to the North-West, at any time they wanted, for whatever purposes they might be, due to their familiarity in skills and wisdom with the know-how to adapt to nature and the sea in secure and safe strategies.

There is a great need for assistance for the disabled in Tonga and a challenge remains to assist the caregivers of the disabled year-round, Salote Fukofuka told Tongan community leaders who gathered at a Prayer Breakfast on Sunday, March 8 for International Women's Day.

Before heading off to the World Cup in Dubai March 5-7 the Digicel Tonga 7s team and their management, took time out of their hectic training schedules to visit the Children's Ward at Vaiola Hospital in Nuku'alofa last week

A 22-year-old Toshiba Brave Lupus rugby player in Tokyo has been suspended indefinitely after testing positive for marijuana on Friday, February 13.

Sitting proudly in the Tonga Police Commander's chair on February 13, was 11-year-old leukaemia sufferer Ikuna Vunipola, who was delighted with a special visit and tour of the Tonga Police Headquarter at Longlongo.

The Queen Victoria, the largest cruise ship ever to visit Tonga arrived in the Nuku'alofa harbour this morning.

The cruise ship Nippon Maru, arrived in Nuku'alofa this morning with 283 youths from 12 different countries on a voyage in the South Pacific that aims to foster cooperation and friendship among youth leaders on board.