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Friday 16 June 2017 4:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The price of petroleum and gas has fallen effective today, Friday 16 June 2017, due to a decrease in the price of crude oil. The freight rate and Tongan Pa’anga have also been steady contributing to the drop in prices.
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Friday 16 June 2017 2:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Only one Pacific Islands heritage site – the Taputapuātea Marae on Ra’iatea Island - has been nominated among 35 world-wide sites under consideration for UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2017, after the people of Opoa in French Polynesia worked for many years to win recognition for its important place in Polynesian voyaging history. The nomination by France asserts that the Pacific region is under-represented in the system of World Heritage properties. Premium content -
Thursday 15 June 2017 7:18pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The debate on a motion for an order for Parliament to tell the Tongan Government to Host the 2019 Pacific Games was further deferred until Monday, 19 June. Premium content -
Thursday 15 June 2017 7:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A petition to King Tupou VI signed by 11,366 signatories was presented by TASANOC on Thursday, June 15 in Nuku’alofa seeking the reversal of the Government of Tonga’s decision to cancel the country’s hosting of the Pacific Games 2019. Premium content -
Thursday 15 June 2017 7:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Emerging Tongan fashion designer, Mele Tamanilo (32) has transformed the traditional kiekie, normally made of plant fibres, into a sparkling warrior-princess-inspired accessory that Tongans worldwide are embracing with pride. Premium content -
Thursday 15 June 2017 6:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Child Cancer Foundation Tonga received a donation of $5,000 today from the chairman of the Reddy Group, owner of the Tanoa International Dateline Hotel, Mr YP Reddy, in Nuku'alofa, to help with special food needs and medical transport. Premium content -
Thursday 15 June 2017 4:03pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Cabinet has approved the funding of the live broadcast of the Tonga vs Wales rugby match tomorrow, June 16. Premium content -
Thursday 15 June 2017 4:00pm
Seattle, USA : A young US Tongan woman in Seattle, Melissa Prisila Langi (23), is being charged with 10 counts of first-degree assault by a US Court for her participation in four separate drive-by shootings. She was arrested by Seattle Police last month May 26, in connection to the shootings. Premium content -
Thursday 15 June 2017 3:58pm
Seattle, Washington : A young US Tongan woman in Seattle, Melissa Prisila Langi (23), is being charged with 10 counts of first-degree assault by a US Court for her participation in four separate drive by-shootings. She was arrested by Seattle Police last month May 26, in connection with the shootings. -
Thursday 15 June 2017 1:37pm
Auckland, New Zealand : Please Prime Minister Pohiva, think again and do not harden your heart, because you are making a mockery of our Parliamentary system...you have Tongans and friends of Tonga with the archeological, cultural, environmental and engineering expertise and the hearts and minds to build our nation, please Prime Minister use them. You are destroying our environment and in the process destroying our very fragile “democracy” and our trust in you and this Government. -‘Ana Hau‘alofa‘ia Koloto -
Wednesday 14 June 2017 6:53pm
Auckland, New Zealand : The organisers have released the names of the 'Ikale Tahi team captained by Siale Piutau for the Tonga v Wales test match in the Pasifika Challenge to be held at Eden Park in Auckland, on Friday 16 June 2017. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 June 2017 6:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The New Zealand Prime Minister Rt Hon Bill English will visit Tonga for the first time on June 15-17, during his 2017 Pacific Mission tour. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 June 2017 6:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four male teenagers have been arrested and charged in relation to an armed robbery at a Chinese shop in Tofoa on Saturday night, June 10. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 June 2017 6:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 31-year-old man has been charged with reckless driving causing harm when his car rolled at Nualei, causing multiple minor injuries to others on Saturday, June 10. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 June 2017 6:21pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 26-year-old man remains in custody after he was arrested in relation to possession of methamphetamine on Friday night, June 9 in Nuku’alofa. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 June 2017 3:10pm
Utah, USA : Tributes are flowing in for 22-year-old Siaosi Brown of Utah, USA, who drowned last week during a hiking accident in Utah. Siaosi had worked as an LDS missionary in Kansas. Premium content -
Tuesday 13 June 2017 9:03pm
Salt Lake City-Utah, USA : Two women and one man of Tongan descent in Utah, are facing federal charges of drug trafficking and conspiracy to distribute Methamphetamine in the Salt Lake City area. The three are Makasini Lomu (50) of West Valley City, Siosifina Ositamani (41) of Salt Lake City, and Timote Fangupo (36) of West Jordan. Premium content -
Tuesday 13 June 2017 8:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's courts have granted the confiscation of $28,289 pa'anga of "tainted property" from a woman who ran a Chinese Clinic at Havelu - the first confiscation under Tonga's Money Laundering and Proceeds of Crimes Act 2000. Premium content -
Tuesday 13 June 2017 6:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Meeting in Nuku'alofa today, military participants from Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Australia, United States, and Tonga’s HMAF are taking part in a three-day military legal workshop, relating to defence forces' deployment to another country in times of crisis. Premium content -
Tuesday 13 June 2017 6:29pm
Port Vila, Vanuatu : Over 100 stakeholders from across the Pacific are attending a logistics and communications cluster workshop with the aim to help Pacific nations to plan, prepare, respond and recover from emergencies such as natural disasters in Port Vila, Vanuatu, from 12 - 16 June. Premium content
