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Friday 9 July 2010 6:26am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Contestants for Tonga's Miss Galaxy Queen Pageant 2010 lived up to the pageant's reputation of creating colourful fantastic costumes, making their first appearance at the Four Seasons Resort, 'Umusi on Wednesday July 7.
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Thursday 8 July 2010 3:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Royal Palace, home of the Tongan royal family for over 100 years is undergoing a $12 million renovation and extension that is expected to be completed by November. Premium content -
Thursday 8 July 2010 7:21am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga will resume exporting watermelon to New Zealand in August, the Prime Minister, Dr Feleti Sevele told the Tongan Media during a joint Press Conference with the New Zealand Foreign Minister, Hon. Murray McCully in Nuku'alofa yesterday. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 July 2010 5:31pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The debate on the Budget Statement and the Budget Program for 2010-11 in the Tongan Legislative Assembly on Thursday, June 24 highlighted how members of parliament, particularly People's Representatives, do not know how aid funds are induced into the national budget. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 July 2010 5:05pm
Beijing, China : 'Ana Nukuao Ve'ehala is the first Tongan to graduate from China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 July 2010 10:45am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Murray McCully arrived in Tonga last night, July 6, for a one-day visit that coincides with 40 years of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and Tonga. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 July 2010 10:19am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two men were arrested last week and charged with the robbery and theft of an Asian business at Lapaha, where more than $1,000 cash was stolen in May this year. Premium content -
Tuesday 6 July 2010 11:45am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Miss Galaxy Queen Pageant 2010 started with colourful float parade in Nuku'alofa on Saturday, July 3. Premium content -
Tuesday 6 July 2010 11:30am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tonga Court of Appeal 2010 Session began at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on July 5 and will run for two weeks, ending with the delivery of judgements on July 14. Premium content -
Tuesday 6 July 2010 10:30am
Neiafu, Vava'u : Photos by Sione Vuki Vava'u High School is celebrating its 25th Anniversary over four days of festivities that began on July 4. Premium content -
Friday 2 July 2010 10:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : MELE'ANA Taulahi (25) has entered the 2010 Miss Heilala Pageant as Miss Tonga Visitors Bureau - and so far is the only entry out of the 12 contestants expected to join. Premium content -
Friday 2 July 2010 10:14pm
Brisbane, Australia : Foreign tuna industry power brokers blocked developing nations trying to protect tuna stocks in their own waters at a key international fisheries meeting that closed today in Brisbane. Premium content -
Friday 2 July 2010 9:57pm
Noumea, New Caledonia : The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), and the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD, French Research Institute for Development) with the European Commission (EC) have concluded a five-day meeting today, culminating with a set of agreed 'roadmaps' for project activities under the Pacific Europe Network for Science and Technology (PACE-Net) project. Premium content -
Friday 2 July 2010 9:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tongas domestic interim ferry MV Ajang Subuh that has been servicing the outer islands in Tonga for over two months is currently not sailing due to engine problems. Premium content -
Friday 2 July 2010 9:41pm
Nukualofa,Tonga : A 63-year-old father from Fua'amotu was sentenced to seven years in Hu'atolitoli Prison for five counts of incest after he repeatedly committed indecent sexual acts on his own daughter, from 2006 to December 2009. Premium content -
Friday 2 July 2010 9:29pm
Portland, Oregon,USA : The last two letters, about Fare-well Payoffs said it all, I can not add anything to it. I believe it is time for Tongans to wake up and stand up for righteousness. You need a good old fashion Tea Party movement. - Cliff. Premium content -
Friday 2 July 2010 9:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Yesterday on Tonga television we heard about a nuclear program in Tonga. No, Please! The Nuclear power is highly dangerous and doesn't really improve in any way the actual situation of the country. - Corinna Langi.4 comments Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 2010 8:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Faced with continuing drops in remittances and two years of negative growth, Tonga's financial planners have turned to aid donors to support the national budget for the new financial year 2010-11, in order to meet a current deficit of $12.1 million pa'anga, as well as multi-million pa'anga development budget needs. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 2010 7:45pm
Salt Lake City-Utah, USA : It is clear that Tongan leaders are neither bringing the Aristotlean Participatory Democracy model known as "the rule of the many." Nor do they plan for a Representative Democracy model (egalitarianism). - Sione Akemeihakau Mokofisi. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 2010 3:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : THE eyes of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China would focus on Tonga for its National Day Celebration on August 2, at the Pacific Pavilion. Premium content
