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Tuesday 7 May 2019 6:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Residents and staff at Alonga Adult Disabled Centre will enjoy using hot water after a group of nine volunteers from Newcastle, Australia installed the new system today, 7 May. The group also installed two new hot water systems at ‘Eua Hospital last week.
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Tuesday 7 May 2019 6:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : ‘Emilio To’a has pleaded not guilty to the murder of Siaosi ‘Okusitino Tupa, who died after being stabbed multiple times with a knife during a drunken brawl at Fangaloto in March, 2018. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 May 2019 6:39pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Host Country Agreements for the establishment of Asian Development Bank Country Offices in Kiribati, Tonga and Tuvalu were finalized in Denarau, Nadi, Fiji on 5 May 2019. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 May 2019 6:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : With more than 2000 people on board, Pacific Aria was in Nuku’alofa for a day visit on May 7, after stopping by Neiafu the day earlier. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 May 2019 6:27pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four men were arrested at a home in Longolongo with illicit drugs packed ready for sale on Friday, May 3. Premium content -
Monday 6 May 2019 6:46pm
Brisbane, Australia : Brisbane's Tongan Community have more than ten kava clubs who meet regularly. President of the Brisbane Tongan Community steering committee, Rev. Maile Molitika says that kava clubs are important in holding the community spirit together. They support the Australian Prime Minister's Pilot Program to ease restrictions on the importation of kava for personal use into Australia. Premium content -
Monday 6 May 2019 6:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Paula Naitoko (59) is the Senior Customs Officer charged in relation to a major seizure of drugs by Tonga Customs Officers on April 23 at the Queen Salote Wharf. Premium content -
Monday 6 May 2019 5:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s para athletes (wheelchair), Siaosi Vaka, and Satua Ngungutau won three bronze medals between them at the Oceania Para Table Tennis Championships held in Darwin, Australia, on 1 - 4 May. Premium content -
Monday 6 May 2019 4:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Can Tonga grow its economy? Asked if it was possible I would answer with a resounding Yes! There may be a need for some outside help, but there is an excess of unused talent and a large underutilized work force here that has proven itself in the past. - Dean Bishoprick2 comments -
Saturday 4 May 2019 10:33am
Denarau, Fiji : With a dire warning that, “If we do not act now, by 2050, 90% of the region’s coral reefs will be dead, and there will be no commercially exploitable wild fish stocks left,” the President of the Asian Development Bank, Mr Takehiko Nakao, launched an ‘Action Plan for Healthy Oceans and Sustainable Blue Economies for Asia and the Pacific’ yesterday, 3 May in Fiji. By Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 5:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Police are concerned with a significant amount of firearms and ammunition that have been smuggled into Tonga and the risks they pose to community safety, a Deputy Police Commissioner warned today, after more seizures of ammunition and cannabis were made by Tonga Police on April 30, at different locations in Tongatapu. Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 4:58pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sione Filipe Jr is the man charged over 242 grams of cannabis seeds brought into Tonga, at Fua’amotu International Airport on March 30. The case was adjourned to May 27. Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 4:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A workshop to address issues that hinder the delivery of World Bank funded projects in Tonga was opened this morning, 3 May, by the Acting Minister for Finance, Hon Mateni Tapueluelu, at the National Reserve Bank Building in Nuku’alofa. Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 4:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Lisiate ‘Otuhouma is the 28-year-old man charged after being arrested with three kilograms of methamphetamine at his home in Fahefa on April 17. Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 4:41pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Senior Customs Officer arrested in relation to a major seizure of drugs by Tonga Customs Officers on April 23 at the Queen Salote Wharf, is due to appear at the Fasi Magistrate’s Court on Monday, May 6. Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 3:03pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Energy Minister Hon. Poasi Tei in Beijing, China, recently thanked the Government of China for donating the 2.25 Megawatt wind power station in Tongatapu under the Belt and Road Initiatives. Tonga is one of the 29 global membership of BREP, and the only representative from the Pacific. Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 1:39pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A team of around 50 medical staff from different countries, including Australia and New Zealand, will volunteer their services to treat Tongans with heart conditions at Vaiola Hospital from September 3-21. Dr Siaosi ‘Aho said healthy Tongans can assist by visiting the hospital to donate their blood. “We need to increase the blood bank before the team arrives and we really need blood donors.” Premium content -
Friday 3 May 2019 12:36pm
New Haven, USA : This is a big year for anniversaries in China. On May 4, the People’s Republic will commemorate the centennial of the May Fourth Movement, the student-led protests in front of Beijing’s Tiananmen Gate in 1919 that marked the birth of Chinese nationalism. And then, one month later, on June 4, will come the 30th anniversary of the violent suppression of pro-democracy student protests on the same site. This milestone, by contrast, will not be officially acknowledged, much less commemorated, in China. -
Friday 3 May 2019 12:01pm
Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia : On World Tuna Day we are reminded of the need to maximise the economic and social benefits from tuna for our people, our communities and our Pacific region. We are also reminded of the critical importance of protecting this rich resource,” says FFA Director General, Dr. Manu Tupou-Roosen. -
Thursday 2 May 2019 8:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A deceitful senior loans officer, Finau Heuifanga Vea was convicted of embezzling more than $70,000 pa’anga from her employer, Five Star Finance in 2015. She is remanded in custody for sentencing at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa. Premium content
