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Monday 19 September 2016 4:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A colourful parade of floats, joined by Tonga’s famous Olympic flag bearer, Pita Taufatofua, and fellow Olympian Lusi Tatafu, along with the Tonga Police Brass Band, businesses, and sporting associations, went through central Nuku’alofa to mark the 2016 Olympic Day on Saturday 17 September. Photos by Eleanor Gee and Caroline Manu-Moli.
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Monday 19 September 2016 4:02pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 36-year-old man died when the Pajero vehicle he was driving crashed into a container that was on the roadside on By-Pass Road at Pahu early Sunday morning, September 18. Premium content -
Monday 19 September 2016 3:50pm
Wellington, New Zealand : A successful Tongan Language Week concluded in New Zealand on 10 September with many events held throughout the country. The opening in Wellington on 4 September was a Po Lotu involving 15 churches singing Tongan songs of praise. Premium content -
Friday 16 September 2016 10:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : About 70% of Tonga’s annual breadfruit yield just rots on the ground and only 30% is consumed as food and for export, a Pacific Breadfruit Roundtable Meeting held in Tonga, learned this week. But breadfruit exports are increasing rapidly.1 comment Premium content -
Friday 16 September 2016 6:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sewing entrepreneur, mother and grandmother Seini Mafile’o (73) won the SPBD Business Woman of the Year Award 2016 today, Friday 16 September, for improving her family sewing business, using the South Pacific Business Development microfinance program. Premium content -
Thursday 15 September 2016 9:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sosefo Fe’aomoeata (Fe'ao) Vakata was dismissed as Tonga’s Minister of Internal Affairs, on 13 September 2016, the Prime Minister’s Office announced this afternoon, 15 September.1 comment Premium content -
Thursday 15 September 2016 9:41pm
Nadi, Fiji : Pacific women and girls can live free from violence - because violence against them is not inevitable and it can be prevented, was the message for more than 40 specialists from across the Pacific meeting in Nadi, Fiji, from 12-15 September. There is a need to change attitudes which condone violence. Premium content -
Thursday 15 September 2016 9:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : ‘Alani Afu, otherwise known as ‘Alani Koloamatangi, who has been in custody for extradition to Australia to face a charge of murder, which he allegedly committed some 26-years ago had his appeal dismissed by Tonga’s Court of Appeal on 14 September. His appeal was against the dismissal by a Supreme Court judge of his application for a writ of habeas corpus. Premium content -
Thursday 15 September 2016 8:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : American fugitive Antone Thomas (Chris) Pedras (64) will be returned to the United States to stand trial on multiple counts of wire fraud, in which he is alleged to have defrauded investors of more than USD$5 million, after a second Appeal Court sitting in Nuku'alofa has ordered him to voluntarily surrender himself into custody, in a judgment delivered on Wednesday, 14 September. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 10:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Neiafu bowsers have run out of petrol again today, forcing the Vava’u tourist industry into crisis control at the height of the tourist season, and crippling the local economy. Vava’u has not seen a fuel barge arrive in nearly a month and only a trickle of petrol is getting through. Dozens of vehicles remained queued at an empty petrol station in Neiafu this afternoon, waiting in hope for a whiff of fuel. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 7:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Cabinet decision on the future of the Minister for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Hon. Fe’ao Vakata, remains unknown after a Cabinet meeting today 14 September.2 comments Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 7:09pm
Manila, Philippines : Some 22.5% of Tonga’s population - or over 23,200 people live below the national poverty line, according to the Asian Development Bank's latest statistics released yesterday. The high cost of living as well as lack of access to basic infrastructure, services and utilities and the lack of employment or opportunities to generate income make it difficult for people to meet their basic needs. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 7:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four Tongan nationals, including two former civil servants, will be sentenced on 11 November after changing their plea to guilty to charges in a Tongan passport forgery trial that began at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on 13 September. The case involves a passport application using a forged Tongan birth certificate of a person who does not exist. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 7:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s second Court of Appeal sitting today dismissed an appeal filed by a letter writer to the Kele’a newspaper, the Kele'a, and two others in a defamation case that awarded judgment against them when they were ordered to pay more than $200,000 in damages and costs after they were found guilty of defamation in 2013. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 September 2016 6:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Senior Police Constable (39) was suspended on Monday, 12 September after a complaint was made by an 18-year-old schoolgirl in Nuku’alofa.1 comment Premium content -
Tuesday 13 September 2016 2:34pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Olympic flag bearer, 32-year-old Pita Taufatofua, is in Tonga this week to say thank you for the opportunity to represent Tonga in Taekwondo at the Rio Olympics. After arriving with his coach, Paula Sitapa, yesterday he went straight to work spending a few hours at Digicel Square in the afternoon meeting fans, signing autographs and taking photos. Photos by Caroline Manu-Moli. Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 6:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 24-year-old man died on impact when the truck he was driving crashed into a tree in front of the Hu’atolitoli Prison compound early Saturday morning, 10 September.3 comments Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 5:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Tonga Navy team won the Inaugural Services Swimming Championship, held at the Masefield Naval Base, Touliki on Friday, 9 September. Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 5:03pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An exhibition of a collection of photographs from the Japan Professional Photographers Society, ‘Japan’s Coastline and its People’, was launched by Crown Prince Tupouto’a ‘Ulukalala at the Visitors Information Centre, Hala Vuna, Nuku’alofa on 9 September. Premium content -
Monday 12 September 2016 10:42am
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia : The interests of Pacific Members must be at the heart of discussions when looking at how they could influence an effective future engagement through the ACP with the EU, said Dame Meg Taylor, the Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, at a Pacific Forum Secretariat meeting on 8 September 2016 in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Premium content
