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Tuesday 2 February 2021 2:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The best countries on the 2020 Corruption Perception Index are New Zealand and Denmark with scores of 88. However, two thirds of countries scored below 50/100 and public sector corruption was deadlier than ever during the pandemic. “The results make one thing clear – corruption kills people,” stated Transparency International this week in releasing their report. -
Monday 1 February 2021 6:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tropical Cyclone Ana has weakened into a Category 1 storm as it moves into southern Tongan waters today. The Fua’amotu Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre, at 5pm Monday, said a gale warning remains in force. On its current track, it could bring destructive storm force winds to Tele-ki-Tonga and Tele-ki-Tokelau and damaging gale force winds over Ha'apai, Tongatapu and 'Eua, early Tuesday morning. -
Monday 1 February 2021 6:34pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's National Reserve Bank is moving to enforce the Moneylenders Act by registering all businesses who are conducting lending services in Tonga. The deadline for registration closed on Friday, January 29 and the NRBT said moneylenders who had not registered in time may face legal action.
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Monday 1 February 2021 6:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Local food crop farming is on the rise in Tonga thanks to the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) supported projects which helps to increase food security amid CoViD-19, climate change, and natural disasters. Premium content -
Monday 1 February 2021 6:22pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 22-year-old man was sentenced to 15-months imprisonment for serious indecent assault on a teenager which was fully suspended, at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court. Premium content -
Saturday 30 January 2021 7:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new five years Electricity Concession Contract, to secure the supply of electricity to Tonga’s main island groups of Tongatapu, ‘Eua, Ha’apai and Vava’u was signed in Nuku’alofa on 12 January 2021. Premium content -
Saturday 30 January 2021 7:54pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga is finalizing its National Deployment and Vaccination Plans to access CoViD-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility, and initial quantities are expected to be announced soon. Health CEO, Dr Siale ‘Akau’ola said COVAX is assessing the readiness of participant countries, who will have to make a contribution if they want vaccination coverage of their population to be increased. Meanwhile, some other Pacific countries have started their vaccination programmes. Premium content -
Friday 29 January 2021 6:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : In the field of ancient DNA remarkable new insights for Oceanic settlement are being revealed. The Lapita migration across Oceania was rapid, and undertaken by a homogeneous group both culturally and genetically. Arriving in Tonga almost three millennia ago, it marks the birth of Polynesia. By David V. Burley and Geoffrey R. Clark. -
Friday 29 January 2021 6:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Lisala Lavemai (28) of Vaini was awarded the Baton of Honour during a graduation ceremony for Tonga Police Recruit Wing 48 on January 28, at the Police Headquarters. Premium content -
Friday 29 January 2021 6:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Siosifa Fotu (37) is serving an imprisonment sentence of two-years and three-months for possession of 25.5 grams of methamphetamine seized, at Fou’i last year. Premium content -
Friday 29 January 2021 5:23pm
: Tonga's Cabinet on 20 January 2021 approved a zero rate of Consumption Tax for the services of collection and disposal waste by a government approved waste management entity, the Waste Authority Ltd. However, the savings will not be passed onto the public. Premium content -
Friday 29 January 2021 12:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 238 passengers repatriated from New Zealand and Samoa on January 14 tested negative for CoViD-19 in their second and final tests yesterday, confirmed Tonga's Chief Medical Officer (Public Health) Dr Reynold 'Ofanoa. Premium content -
Friday 29 January 2021 12:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The death of a young man (19) whose body was found at a home in Kolovai over the weekend, has been ruled as a suicide. Premium content -
Friday 29 January 2021 12:16pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Pilima Langi (63) is the woman who died on Thursday, January 28 after the small boat that she was in with 17 others capsized in heavy seas off Foa Island. Tonga Police have opened an investigation into the marine incident. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 6:47pm
Geneva, Switzerland : The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on all countries to play their part in distributing CoViD-19 vaccines equally. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 6:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Prime Minister was today conferred as a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants of Australia, by the Australian High Commissioner to Tonga on behalf of the institute. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 6:26pm
Nicosia, Cyprus : Mr Joseph Borghese has been appointed Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Tonga to Cyprus by the Privy Council of King Tupou VI, Tonga's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today. Premium content -
Thursday 28 January 2021 5:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Tropical Depression that has developed to the west of Tonga is expected to bring storms, gales and heavy rain to Tonga overnight, Thursday. The Fua'amotu Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre was activated today and has issued a gale warning for the Niuas land areas, and a storm warning for other groups. -
Thursday 28 January 2021 2:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Ha'apai woman has died today after being rescued with 18 people, who were on board a small local ferry boat that capsized in heavy seas off Foa Island, on Wednesday afternoon. A rescuer said the woman had refused one of his four life jackets so it could be given to a child. There were no life jackets on the boat. Two people remain in hospital. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 January 2021 7:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An important mangrove area at the mouth of Tongatapu’s Fanga'uta Lagoon that was destroyed in 2017 to make way for a golf course project in Popua, is slowly being restored by the Department of Environment. “It’s a huge job to restore this area,” said team leader, Hoifua Aholahi, who urges the public not to destroy the nurseries at the site. Premium content
