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Thursday 8 April 2021 4:39pm
New York, USA : New York Times reporting: How does a country deal with climate disasters when it is drowning in debt? Not very well, it turns out. Especially not when a global pandemic clobbers its economy. Take Belize, Fiji and Mozambique. Vastly different countries, they are among dozens of nations at the crossroads of two mounting global crises that are drawing the attention of international financial institutions: climate change and debt.
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Thursday 8 April 2021 4:18pm
New York, USA : New York Times reporting: For most scuba divers, few places underwater match the visual thrill of a kaleidoscopic coral reef teeming with colorful fish. For Jeff Milisen, a marine biologist and photographer in Kona, Hawaii, there is no better place to dive than an open stretch of deep ocean. At night. “There’s a whole lot of nothing,” he said. “There’s no bottom, no walls, just this space that goes to infinity. And one thing you realize is there are a lot of sea monsters there, but they’re tiny.” Premium content -
Wednesday 7 April 2021 6:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An appeal by an heir trying to claim allotments in Pea was dismissed by Tonga's Court of Appeal, who found that due to his failure to apply for it within the legal time-frame, the allotments were no longer available for inheritance when it reverted back to the estate holder. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 April 2021 6:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four repatriation flights are being planned to arrive in Tonga on April 28 and 30. While, a flight from Australia today took more seasonal workers. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 April 2021 6:37pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Manavahetau Fua’eiki (42) who was convicted of possession of methamphatamine was sentenced to one-year nine-months imprisonment, which was fully suspended on conditions at the Supreme Court in Nuku’alofa. Premium content -
Tuesday 6 April 2021 7:34pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's prime minister is reportedly working on plans for not only a big international airport at Vava'u, but also two inter-island bridges: one in Vava'u to connect Mala Island to Talihau, and another in Tongatapu to connect Patangata to the Eastern Districts Premium content -
Tuesday 6 April 2021 5:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Soane (57) was sentenced to 16-months imprisonment after being convicted of uttering counterfeit currency, which amounted to $500 pa’anga at different venues in December 2019. The offending was driven entirely by greed. Premium content -
Tuesday 6 April 2021 4:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 135 passengers who were repatriated from New Zealand and Fiji have tested negative for COVID-19. Tonga is on schedule to start vaccinating frontline and vulnerable groups on April 15. Premium content -
Monday 5 April 2021 10:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : This year’s 2021 Rugby League World Cup will continue as scheduled, with the first game of the tournament set to kickoff on 23 October between hosts England and Samoa at St James’ Park Newcastle. Premium content -
Friday 2 April 2021 2:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Rugby Union veteran, Toutai Kefu, will return as coach of Tonga’s national team, the ‘Ikale Tahi, the Tonga Rugby Union announced yesterday. Premium content -
Friday 2 April 2021 12:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Henry Puna, the former Prime Minister of the Cook Islands, will take over from Dame Meg Taylor as Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum in May, the PIF Secretariat in Suva confirmed. Dame Meg will remain in office until the end of April. Premium content -
Thursday 1 April 2021 5:09pm
Auckland, New Zealand : Tonga’s sevens team will take part in a sevens invitational tournament, Takiwhitu Tūturu, next weekend, April 9 and 10, at Hataitai Park in Wellington to help with Olympic preparations. Premium content -
Thursday 1 April 2021 5:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Lilieta Tu’itupou (30) who assaulted her 54-year-old mother with a machete remains jailed for three-months, after appealing against her sentence to the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa. The judge said, this was a very sad case involving an adult daughter assaulting her mother. Premium content -
Thursday 1 April 2021 4:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 35-year-old man from Mataika was arrested after the seizure of methamphetamine and cannabis on March 31 by the Police Drug Enforcement Taskforce. Premium content -
Thursday 1 April 2021 4:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The roll out of Tonga’s COVID-19 vaccination program is expected to start on 15 April announced Minister for Health Hon Dr ‘Amelia Tu’i’pulotu last night. Premium content -
Wednesday 31 March 2021 5:15pm
Brussels, Belgium : New York Times reporting: Citing what they call “the biggest challenge to the global community since the 1940s,” the leaders of more than two dozen countries, the European Union and the World Health Organization on Tuesday floated an international treaty to protect the world from pandemics. The current pandemic is “a stark and painful reminder that nobody is safe until everyone is safe,” the leaders write. The suggested treaty is an acknowledgment that the current system of international health institutions, symbolized by the relatively powerless WHO, a U.N. agency, is inadequate to the problem. Premium content -
Wednesday 31 March 2021 4:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The first batch of the COVID-19 AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccines from COVAX arrived in Tonga today, 31 March, on a repatriation flight from Auckland, New Zealand. Premium content -
Wednesday 31 March 2021 4:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A repatriation flight with 110 passengers arrived in Tonga from Auckland, today. Another flight from Australia was scheduled today, to pick up seasonal workers, who are expected to depart for Australia later this evening. Premium content -
Wednesday 31 March 2021 4:26pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two men were arrested last week after the seizure of methamphetamine and cannabis at two different locations in Tongatapu. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 March 2021 8:58pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga is now one of six countries in the Pacific region to remain CoViD-19 free to date. Premium content
