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Wednesday 30 June 2021 8:50pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A singing competition, block party, food festival, float parade, and the One Tonga concert, are some of the events on the Ministry of Tourism’s festival calendar starting this week in Tongatapu.
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Wednesday 30 June 2021 6:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga has named its team, which includes 13 debutants, to face the All Blacks at Mt Smart Stadium, Auckland, on Saturday 3 July. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 June 2021 6:16pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A repatriation flight with over 200 passengers arrived in Tonga this afternoon from Auckland, New Zealand. Another flight is expected to arrive this evening from Brisbane, Australia with no passengers but will take out seasonal workers and others. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 June 2021 6:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Heneli Manuofetoa (40) was sentenced today to another seven months imprisonment for possession of 0.1 gram of methamphetamine. He is currently serving time at Hu’atolitoli Prison for another drug offence. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 June 2021 12:28pm
Austin-Texas, USA : Outside the rich-country bubble, the virus can spread, mutate, sicken, and kill. One obvious solution is to get the hoarded stockpile of vaccines into arms all around the world - but there have been only "paltry half-measures and insufficient gestures". For now, where this is heading is obvious. The US and Europe are offering crumbs, protecting their billionaires, their pharmaceutical lobbies, and their politicians’ campaign contributions. Meanwhile, China and Russia have other ideas – and the capacity to realize them. So, before too long, when the back of this pandemic is finally broken, the world will have fresh evidence about who is reliable and who is not. - By James K. Galbraith. -
Tuesday 29 June 2021 6:39pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An interim group, chaired by Tonga's Prime Minister, will manage Tonga’s Rugby League Affairs, until a rugby league governing body is established next year, confirmed the Prime Minister’s office today, 29 June. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 June 2021 6:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Tongan student at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji has tested positive for the COVID-19. Positive cases are increasing in Fiji since its latest outbreak in April, prompting Tonga to postpone repatriation flights from Fiji. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 June 2021 6:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : By this morning, 1125 people had received their second dose of the Covid-19 Astra-Zeneca vaccine, since the second vaccination roll out started on June 24 in Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 June 2021 6:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Quarantine costs for Tongan repatriates will continue to be paid by the Tongan Government confirmed MEIDECC CEO Paula Ma’u. Plans for repatriated passengers to start paying for their quarantine from July have been sidelined for the time being. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 June 2021 6:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The repatriation flight to Tonga from Brisbane, scheduled on 30 June, has been deferred due to the current COVID-19 outbreak in Sydney and parts of Queensland, MEIDECC stated today. However, the repatriation flight from New Zealand is still scheduled to arrive tomorrow, Wednesday, with about 240 passengers. Premium content -
Monday 28 June 2021 9:08pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Samoa’s Parliament is to meet in seven days, the Samoa Court of Appeal ordered this afternoon. The court also declared that the political party commanding the majority of members of Parliament is the Faatuatua I le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) Party, which will form a government. -
Monday 28 June 2021 6:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The convicted Minister of Infrastructure and Tourism ‘Akosita Lavulavu (36) and her husband ’Etuate (62) will be sentenced on Friday, July 2 at the Nuku’alofa Supreme Court. Premium content -
Monday 28 June 2021 5:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Kava Mone and Maikolo Mahe remain missing at sea in Foa, Ha'apai after they went fishing in a small aluminium boat on June 23. Searches over the weekend did not find anything. Premium content -
Monday 28 June 2021 5:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : HM King Tupou VI will attend a service at the Centennial Church to mark his official birthday on Sunday, July 4 in Nuku'alofa. Born on July 12, 1959 the King will be 62-years-old this year. Premium content -
Monday 28 June 2021 5:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's new Electronic Communications Abuse Offences Act aimed at addressing the problem of online abuse, comes into force on July 1. Premium content -
Friday 25 June 2021 10:41pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Six athletes, including USA based weightlifter, Kuinini Manumu’a, will represent Tonga at the Tokyo Olympics next month. By Eleanor Gee. Premium content -
Friday 25 June 2021 10:37pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A jury has found Sosaia Tū Maile (20) guilty of manslaughter in the death of Ned Samson Cook (67), the Salvation Army Team Leader, in Nuku'alofa in 2020. Premium content -
Friday 25 June 2021 10:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Seven people were arrested by Tonga Police after seizing illicit drugs, including 12.12 grams of methamphetamine and over $21,000 pa’anga at five different locations in Tongatapu. Premium content -
Friday 25 June 2021 7:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sione Pouono (20) was sentenced to five-years imprisonment for unlawful possession of illicit drugs and grievous bodily harm, when he severed another man's finger with a chopping knife at Lapaha. "Methamphetamine is a scourge to societies everywhere that has affected a great deal of harm and misery. The distribution and use of methamphetamine in Tonga is a significant government and community concern,” said the judge. Premium content -
Friday 25 June 2021 7:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Common Utilities Board accepted the resignation of board member John Paul Chapman, effective from the end of June, “with no cause or allegations against him or vice versa”, the Prime Minister's Office announced yesterday. Premium content
