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Wednesday 11 December 2024 5:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Invitations from the Speaker Lord Fakafanua has been sent to all elected representatives to the Legislative Assembly, calling for submission of nomination of a candidate for Prime Minister Designate. Nomination(s) are submitted to the office of the Speaker, and will close at 4.30pm, on Monday, 23 December.
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Wednesday 11 December 2024 1:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A three-day ‘Advocacy Skills’ workshop for Tongan lawyers was opened at the Attorney General’s Office in Nuku’alofa, this week, starting on 10 December 2024. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 December 2024 9:27pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Kisina Neiufi was found guilty of charges including possession of 3.51 grams methamphetamine. While his wife, Tohu'ia, who was jointly charged was acquitted in the Supreme Court at Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 December 2024 6:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Song Ning Wang who was sentenced to imprisonment for inflating the price of goods in his shop in Ha'apai. Wang's appeal that his sentence was manifestly excessive, was rejected. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 December 2024 5:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Five ministerial portfolios are now vacant after three Nobles resigned from the Cabinet recently. No reason for the resignations was provided by the Acting Prime Minister, Hon. Samiu Vaipulu at his first media briefing today as the new Acting Prime Minister of Tonga. Premium content -
Monday 9 December 2024 8:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new Prime Minister will be selected on Christmas Eve, 24 December, the Speaker announced during the afternoon session of Parliament today, shortly after King Tupou VI accepted the resignation of Hon. Hu’akavameiliku (Siaosi Sovaleni) as his Prime Minister. Premium content -
Monday 9 December 2024 7:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new British High Commissioner to Tonga, HE Mr. Philip Malone presented his Letters of Credence to HM King Tupou VI at the Royal Palace today, 9 December 2024. Premium content -
Monday 9 December 2024 12:22pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Prime Minister Hon. Hu’akavameiliku (Siaosi Sovaleni) has resigned this morning, at the end of an emotional speech to parliament, ahead of a Motion for a vote of no Confidence that was expected to be tabled in parliament today. “I think Tonga has been through a lot, don’t need to put them through another vote and all that, so I might as well just resign and provide some kind of support moving forward,” he told Matangi Tonga. Premium content -
Sunday 8 December 2024 2:49pm
Honiara. Solomon Islands : The Tonga Men’s and Women’s teams are both through to the Quarter Finals of the 2024 Oceania Rugby Sevens, after the first day of exciting competition at the at the National Stadium in Honiara, Solomon Islands, yesterday, Saturday 7 December. Premium content -
Sunday 8 December 2024 2:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police have launched a homicide investigation after a young man was found dead on the road in Hahake last week. The victim was confirmed to be a 21-year-old male from Nakolo, who police said was run over by a vehicle, and had major injuries suspected to have happened prior to the road incident. Premium content -
Friday 6 December 2024 5:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The prices for petrol, kerosene, and diesel increased on Tuesday, 3 December, and will remain until the next price adjustment in the new year. The retail price of petrol for Tongatapu will increase by 10 seniti/litre ($3.15 to $3.25), kerosene by 5 seniti/litre ($2.35 to $2.40), while diesel remains unchanged ($3.15). Premium content -
Friday 6 December 2024 5:00pm
Suva, Fiji : The University of the South Pacific has named a Tongan, Mr Siosiua Tuitalukua Tupou Utoikamanu, as the new Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council for a three-year term, starting from 27 November 2024. Premium content -
Friday 6 December 2024 11:49am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : When Tupouto’a College on Nomuka Island, Ha’apai, named their 2024 Dux, Kuinita Halafatai Faitangane (17), she graduated in the local church with an armful of trophies - after topping her seven subjects. Academic studies are a challenge at her college, which was devastated by the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha’apai tsunamis in January 2022 and has yet to be rebuilt. Classes for the last three years have been held in fraying tents - when the weather permits. Premium content -
Thursday 5 December 2024 7:20pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Chief of the Defence Staff, Brigadier Lord Fielakepa was rewarded as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia, Military Division, Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency the Honourable Ms. Sam Mostyn AC, on 20 November, at the Government House in Canberra, Australia. Premium content -
Thursday 5 December 2024 7:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Over 200 people in Tonga received essential eye care services from a team professional volunteers from New Zealand who worked in Nuku'alofa from 30 September to 4 October. The 'EyesForGood' team was made up of optometry and vision science teaching fellows and a researcher from the University of Auckland, with a clinician at the New Zealand Prosthetic Eye Service. Premium content -
Thursday 5 December 2024 3:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Imports of raw poultry meat have been restricted by the Ministry of Agriculture (MAFF) to prevent the bird flu, a type of avian influenza that has spread across areas in three countries, the US, Australia, and New Zealand, that are Tonga's main source of chicken, turkey, and duck meat imports. Individual passengers from USA, Australia and New Zealand may not bring in raw poultry meat, although cooked poultry is allowed. Premium content -
Wednesday 4 December 2024 9:54pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Over 200 students graduated, in the presence of King Tupou VI, at the first graduation ceremony to be held by the Tonga National University (TNU) today, 4 December 2024. More students will graduate on Thursday and Friday. Premium content -
Wednesday 4 December 2024 9:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 5G network service to improve the services of the Tonga Communications Corporation (TCC) was launched today by the Prime Minister Hon. Hu’akavameiliku at the TCC head office, in Fasi-moe-afi, Nuku'alofa, . Premium content -
Wednesday 4 December 2024 4:38pm
Suva, Fiji : Tonga and other Pacific states have signed an MOU to apply amendments to the Treaty on Fisheries between Pacific Island States and the United States. This 2024 amendments to the US Tuna Treaty provides for access arrangements to the fisheries zones of the Pacific Islands Parties over a period of five years. Premium content -
Wednesday 4 December 2024 4:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Fire destroyed a home at Ma’ufanga on Salote Rd, at lunchtime today, Wednesday, 4 December. The blaze was reported to the Tonga Fire and Emergency Services at 12:35 PM and firefighters with three fire trucks responded to the report at 12:38 pm. Premium content
