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Monday 21 April 2008 2:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tonga Defence Services Third Deployment to Iraq is currently serving alongside USA soldiers in a peacekeeping mission after arriving in Baghdad on February 18.
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Monday 21 April 2008 2:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : This month's controversial clampdown on political broadcasting imposed by the board and management of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission has been extended to include press conferences. Premium content -
Monday 21 April 2008 5:23am
Paris, France : A message from the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura to mark the 60th celebration of the 2008 Press Freedom day on May 3. Premium content -
Sunday 20 April 2008 9:41pm
Rarotonga, Cook Islands : An essential approach to addressing national challenges in the Pacific is through closer regional cooperation, the head of the Asian Development Bank's Pacific Department, Philip Erquiaga, said yesterday. Premium content -
Sunday 20 April 2008 6:34am
Pago Pago, American Samoa : I hope the Government do realize that your actions only benefits and further fertilize the anti-government sentiment in Tonga. No news is good news to some people. To a lot people, the worse that could happens is anticipated when there is no news. To most reasonable human beings, when information is deliberately withheld, something negative and serious is wrong. - Mafi ‘o Amerika Samoa -
Friday 18 April 2008 10:10pm
Neiafu, Vava'u : In Neiafu this week eight Tongan business people and community organisers, completed a three-day training program that will help them run better organizations. Premium content -
Friday 18 April 2008 6:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The IRB Pacific Cup starts today at Churchill Park, Lautoka where the Fiji Warriors meet the Tongan Tautahi Gold, while in Apia the Savai'i Samoa meet the Fiji Barbarians at Marist Stadium. Premium content -
Friday 18 April 2008 6:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two students from the South Westland Area School in Hari Hari on the West Coast of New Zealand will come to Tonga especially to see the historical Coronation of Tonga's King George Tupou V on August 1. Premium content -
Friday 18 April 2008 5:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Setaleki Tu'itavake (33) received a suspended sentence of 18 months imprisonment today for the theft of barbed wire and diamond wire, committed in October 2007. Premium content -
Thursday 17 April 2008 12:24pm
Neiafu, Vava'u : Developing an International Airport at Vava'u, is something the Tonga government is now considering, but because of the limitations of the outer island runways, they need to consider all the options. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 April 2008 4:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's second domestic airline Chatham Pacific, carrying the Prime Minister and VIPs aboard its 50-seater Convair, made its inaugural flight to Ha'apai and Vava'u on the afternoon of Monday, April 14. -
Tuesday 15 April 2008 4:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Highlights from Tonga's newspapers, April 3-10, 2008. An English translation summary by Tevita Fonua. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 April 2008 4:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga High School was the winner of Tonga's 2008 Inter College Sports Competition with a total of 50 medals, including 23 gold, 13 silver and 14 bronze medals. Photos by Linny Folau Premium content -
Tuesday 15 April 2008 4:54am
Washington DC,USA : Transparency International (TI) welcomes the World Bank's launch of the EITI++, an expansion of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) into a broader scheme to ensure that natural resources produce long-term development benefits for resource-rich yet poor nations. Premium content -
Monday 14 April 2008 11:39pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : "Innocent young children must be protected from predators like yourself," Tonga's Chief Justice said in handing down an eight-year prison sentence on a man who sexually abused a five-year-old girl who was on her way home from school. Premium content -
Monday 14 April 2008 11:31pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Attorney General and Minister of Justice today announced the formation of a new Joint Working Group to accelerate the establishment of an independent Office of the Anti Corruption Commissioner. Premium content -
Monday 14 April 2008 11:33am
Wellington, New Zealand : New Zealand's solicitor-general is prosecuting The Dominion Post's owner and editor for publishing conversations secretly recorded by police during terror investigations. Premium content -
Monday 14 April 2008 5:29am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Economic activity in Tonga is likely to be contracted markedly in 2007, as the Kingdom's economy suffered following a poor agricultural season, the large-scale reduction in civil service workers and the near-destruction of Nuku'alofa's central business district. Reconstruction is taking a long time with only a few projects underway nearly 18 months following the civil disturbance of November 2006. Premium content -
Friday 11 April 2008 2:21pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The one thing that the parliamentary election of 2008 will be remembered for is last week's decision by the board of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission to stop broadcasting all pre-recorded campaign speeches of candidates, and to re-record them all for free, at the tax payers expense, so that they can be edited by a newly appointed editorial committee.5 comments Premium content -
Thursday 10 April 2008 5:53pm
Pago Pago, American Samoa : The Parliament must have so much time doing not much of anything that at one time they discussed to consider banning Mr. Foni Pole'o's song, Hulita, from being aired. The explanation was, it was too sexually suggestive. What a joke coming from a group of alcoholic and hypocrites that makes up the Parliament. But even if it is, who is going to scrutinize all the lyrics to be aired in public radios in Tonga? "Ko e kai ia 'a e Funga Hihifo" was banned for years, now it is ok. Why, has it become less sexually suggestive over the years? Please stop the Nonsense. - Sione Lousiale Kava
