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  • Sunday 22 March 2015 5:46pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 12 member team has been announced to represent Tonga at the Hong Kong Sevens tournament next Friday, March 27.
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  • Friday 20 March 2015 6:34pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Four shipwrecks have been cleared from the Nuku’alofa waterfront reefs as part of an ongoing clean-up operation starting last month.
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  • Friday 20 March 2015 5:39pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Bernie Poort has been appointed as the new CEO Tonga of ANZ Bank in Nuku’alofa.
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  • Friday 20 March 2015 5:37pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A police manhunt is continuing in Tongatapu for a 28-year-old male suspect who is on the run after allegedly imprisoning his partner at a plantation in Puke last month.
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  • Friday 20 March 2015 3:54pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Ko e lavelave ‘eni ki ha’a politika he ko kinautolu na’a nau fakatoka ‘a e Tonga ‘o e onopooni ‘o fisifisimu’a ai ‘a’etau moto “Ko e ‘Otua mo Tonga ko hoku tofi’a”.
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  • Friday 20 March 2015 12:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Ngaahi Fananga mo e Fakatonuonu fekaku’aki mo e CEDAW ‘I Tonga ni
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  • Friday 20 March 2015 11:13am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga A has hatched its first victory of the Pacific Challenge Cup by beating Japan A 60-24 in Suva, Fiji on Wednesday, March 18.
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  • Thursday 19 March 2015 8:38pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga's Parliament this afternoon, March 19, passed a Motion Resolution for government to borrow $16. 5 million Pa’anga from the World Bank. From the House by Pesi Fonua
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  • Thursday 19 March 2015 8:33pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Robert Matthews from Australia has been appointed as the new CEO of the Tonga Power Ltd starting in Nuku'alofa on 9 March for the next three-years.
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  • Thursday 19 March 2015 5:08pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Government has approved in principle the draft Tongan Strategic Development Framework 2015-2025, ‘A more progressive Tonga: enhancing Our Inheritance’ to be shared widely to the public and stakeholders outside government for information and comment. Key Stakeholders and the public are invited to review and submit comments on the TSDFII before March 31, 2015.
  • Thursday 19 March 2015 4:29pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Four Tongan law students who arrived in Tonga today are hoping that government will assist the remaining Tongan students to return. They are grateful to be back home after Tropical Cyclone Pam devastated Vanuatu five-days ago, “but we feel really bad that we had to abandon the rest of our Tongan students,” said Esther ‘Aholelei in tears at Fua'amotu airport.
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  • Thursday 19 March 2015 9:15am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A Papua New Guinea based bank, BSP, is expected to take over the operations of Westpac Bank of Tonga in May when the legal transition is completed.
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  • Wednesday 18 March 2015 7:35pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Eight Tongan law students stranded in Vanuatu are appealing for assistance from the Government of Tonga since their living condition at the campus has worsened with no clean drinking water in the aftermath of Super Cyclone Pam.
  • Wednesday 18 March 2015 4:11pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Police in Nuku’alofa are looking for a 28-year-old man from Navutoka,who is alleged to have unlawfully imprisoned his partner inside a hut at a plantation in Puke, Tongatapu.
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  • Wednesday 18 March 2015 1:53pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Government of Japan has contributed around $980,000 pa’anga to fund six community projects that will upgrade schools and provide a new boat for transportation to the people of ‘Eueiki Island in Tongatapu.
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  • Wednesday 18 March 2015 1:51pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga has signed the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture that promotes food security. on 16 March.
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  • Wednesday 18 March 2015 12:14pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Sione Vaiomo’unga, an ‘Ikale Tahi flanker and Tongan rugby export to Romania, is suffering from a life threatening kidney disease and requires a kidney transplant.
  • Wednesday 18 March 2015 11:57am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Ministry of Commerce, Tourism and Labour have announced higher fuel prices for the month starting March 16. The increase comes after months of lower fuel prices.
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  • Tuesday 17 March 2015 9:32pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : We and the Government I led were opposed to ratifying CEDAW. We, the Government of the day, subsequently agreed to have a full and frank debate in the House, following the receipt of a petition introduced to the House by some of the people’s representatives. – Lord Sevele ‘o Vailahi.
  • Tuesday 17 March 2015 6:44pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Four fishermen who were rescued on Friday night, 13 March after their boat’s engine failed some 54 nautical miles south of Tongatapu were today thankful to New Zealand’s Orion P-3 aircraft and Tongan Navy for the swift search and rescue operation.
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