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Tuesday 2 August 2016 6:22pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Pita Taufatofua, Tonga’s first Olympic Taekwondo athlete, will aim for gold at the Rio Olympics competing in the Men’s +80kg division on Saturday 20 August. A lifetime of pain and struggle was worth every moment to reach the Olympics, says Pita when reflecting on his journey to becoming an Olympian. It cost him six broken bones, three torn ligaments, three months in a wheelchair, a year and a half on crutches and hundreds of hours of physiotherapy, and he has no regrets.
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Tuesday 2 August 2016 6:03pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific International Commercial Bank (PICB) is challenging last week’s decision made by Tonga’s National Reserve Bank to shut it down. “We will urgently take legal action against the National Reserve Bank of Tonga for the cancellation of our operating license,” said Mishka Tu'ifua, General Manager and Director of PICB today, 2 August. Premium content -
Tuesday 2 August 2016 4:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 25th Annual Pacific Power Association (PPA) Conference and Trade Exhibition attended by more than 200 representatives from electricity utilities, organisations and individuals from the region was opened for the first time in Nuku'alofa by Crown Prince Tupouto’a ‘Ulukalala on Tuesday, 2 August. Premium content -
Tuesday 2 August 2016 4:33pm
Christchurch, New Zealand : A 46-year-old Tongan pastor in New Zealand was ordered by a Christchurch court to pay a total of $1018 in reparations to a Christchurch man for a road rage incident that occurred in January this year. Premium content -
Tuesday 2 August 2016 4:31pm
Kumamoto, Japan : A special event held in Japan on July 13 was co-hosted by the Tongan community of Kyushu and Tonga’s Ambassador to Japan HE Tania Tupou along with a Japanese women's group, helping around 200 people whose homes were damaged in the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake. Premium content -
Monday 1 August 2016 5:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The first three of six Royal Agricultural, Fisheries and Tonga Made Shows for 2016 were held in Niuatoputapu, Niuafo’ou and Vava’u last week. Premium content -
Monday 1 August 2016 4:48pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tongan Olympian Karoline Lusitania Tatafu (18) aims to perform to the best of her ability and not let the atmosphere overwhelm her at the Rio Olympic that opens in four days time. Lusi hopes to achieve a personal best score and get through the first elimination round. Getting to the Olympics is no easy task and being self-funded meant Lusi's family has supported her and continues to support her providing 80% of costs so she can represent Tonga. She gave up her studies to train. Premium content -
Monday 1 August 2016 4:38pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Peni Tupa (25) who crashed his car into a brick house at Malapo last week, injuring his twin brother who remains hospitalized, has been charged with reckless driving causing bodily harm. Premium content -
Monday 1 August 2016 4:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 137 people were arrested and charged with drinking in public places and drunk driving in a new 'Operation Safe Streets' by Tonga Police held over the weekend in Tongatapu, in response to the increasing number of road fatalities and violent attacks in recent weeks. Premium content -
Monday 1 August 2016 4:33pm
Japan : Two Tongan wrestlers “Tama Tonga” and “Bad Luck Fale” have gained a cult following among Japanese wrestling fans. Both Tama Tonga and Bad Luck Fale are competing in Japan’s prestigious professional wrestling tournament, the 2016 G1 Climax tournament. Premium content -
Friday 29 July 2016 8:08pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The fact that Tonga is known to be involved in illegal sales of the Tongan national identity is mind-boggling. Yesterday New Zealand’s Prime Minister urged Tonga’s Prime Minister to do something about it. So what is going on? Premium content -
Friday 29 July 2016 6:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific International Commercial Bank (PICB), a Chinese-Tongan venture, had its license revoked because it failed to honour a business plan and had not submitted an audit report, the National Reserve Bank of Tonga Governor Dr Ngongo Kioa said in Nuku'alofa today. Premium content -
Friday 29 July 2016 6:26pm
Salt Lake City-Utah, USA : A pregnant 30 year-old US-Tongan woman and mother of six, ‘Ofa Kinikini, died after the vehicle she was traveling in was hit by a train in Salt Lake City, Utah on Monday July 25. ‘Ofa's baby was saved in an emergency C-section, a daughter who is now in critical condition, according to local reports. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 10:17pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Five new Tonga Tourism Authority board members were approved by Cabinet yesterday, 27 July. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific International Commercial Bank (PICB), a Chinese-Tongan venture had its license revoked by the National Reserve Bank of Tonga Board of Directors on Tuesday, 26 July. The bank when opened two years ago had a board of six people, four from China and two from Tonga. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A man is in Vaiola Hospital with serious injuries after a car in which he was a front passenger crashed into a brick house on Taufa'ahau Road at Malapo last night, Wednesday 27 July. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Tonga Secondary Schools Brass Band Music Festival held in Tongatapu and Vava'u last week, is a joint initiative by Tonga Police and secondary school principals that brings youth together in a strategy to prevent and reduce crimes like school fights. Premium content -
Thursday 28 July 2016 4:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The National Reserve Bank of Tonga wishes to assure the public that despite the revocation of the banking licence of Pacific International Commercial Bank (PICB) effective from 26 July 2016, the banking system remains sound. While PICB represented a very small proportion of the total banking system, the banks in Tonga continue to be profitable and maintain strong liquidity and capital position. -
Wednesday 27 July 2016 8:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A complaint has been lodged with Tonga's Public Relations Commission against the new Minister for Tourism, Hon. Semisi Sika, accusing him of an "illegal takeover" of the Tonga Tourism Authority Board, according to Tomifa Paea, the TTA chairman who said he filed the complaint and that the dispute had led to a freezing of the TTA bank account. It is now expected that new board members for TTA will be announced tomorrow, Thursday, in an ongoing dispute between the Minister of Tourism and the TTA that was originally set up to operate as an independent body. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 July 2016 4:33pm
Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland raised tenor Filipe Manu won second place at New Zealand’s prestigious opera singing competition, the 2016 Lexus Song Quest, last Saturday July 23. The 25 year-old came second to a fellow Aucklander, baritone Benson Wilson who won the competition and the $20,000 prize. Premium content
