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Saturday 2 February 2019 8:58am
Stockholm, Sweden : Our current diets are bad for our health and are harming the planet. Two billion people are now overweight or obese. Poor diet is the biggest cause of noncommunicable disease in the world, posing a greater risk of morbidity and mortality than unsafe sex, alcohol, tobacco, and drug abuse combined. By Line Gordon. -
Friday 1 February 2019 11:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Chinese New Year and Spring Festival was celebrated at the Chinese Embassy in Nuku’alofa last night, 31 January.
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Friday 1 February 2019 8:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : For Tonga to move forward and address its growing trade imbalance and unemployment, the Chief Executive Officer for its Ministry for Trade and Economic Development, Edgar Cocker, is convinced that Tonga should ratify PACERPlus, a Development and Trade Agreement between Australia and New Zealand and some Pacific Islands countries, then embark on an industrialisation program.1 comment Premium content -
Friday 1 February 2019 7:17pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s broken international submarine fibre optic cable should be fixed by midday tomorrow, if all goes to plan, according to the operations team on board the cable repair ship ‘Reliance’. The cable blackout is entering Day 13 on Saturday February 2. Premium content -
Friday 1 February 2019 7:12pm
Sydney, Australia : The Tonga 7s team heading into the Sydney Sevens tournament has been announced and will be led by new Captain, Atieli Pakalani, this weekend, 2-3 February at Spotless Stadium, Olympic Park. Premium content -
Friday 1 February 2019 7:10pm
Leeds, UK : Mate Ma’a Tonga players, Konrad Hurrell and Tui Lolohea have been named in the starting line-up for their first Super League game this weekend after signing with Leeds Rhinos Rugby League Club in the UK. Premium content -
Friday 1 February 2019 6:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A man has been arrested in relation to inuring a 22-year-old man whom he allegedly stabbed during a fight in Ngele’ia on January 22. Premium content -
Friday 1 February 2019 6:27pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 32-year-old man from Longolongo has been charged with possession of illicit drugs namely cannabis, after being arrested in the Central Business District on January 20. Premium content -
Friday 1 February 2019 6:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Police are looking for a cow that was stolen from a plantation at Ha’ateiho on January 22. Premium content -
Thursday 31 January 2019 5:48pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Three brothers who were accused of serious bodily harm when they allegedly attacked another man during a fight at Hofoa in 2017 were found not guilty, at the Supreme Court on January 30. Premium content -
Thursday 31 January 2019 5:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A satellite service provider has helped Digicel Tonga continue to quickly restore critical mobile and broadband connection for its business and regular customers after Tonga's fibre optic submarine cable was damaged on 20 January, causing an internet and data services blackout. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 January 2019 7:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Twenty-four talented cooks from Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Samoa, will compete in a reality TV cooking show competition hosted by celebrity chef, Robert Oliver, encouraging Pacific Islanders to make good food choices in a bid to fight non-communicable diseases.1 comment Premium content -
Wednesday 30 January 2019 7:17pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A second fault on the international submarine cable, which connects Tonga through the Southern Cross Cable Network to Fiji, was located further out to sea from the first fault, early this morning, 30 January. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 January 2019 7:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sione Fakalelei Valuvalu Manu received one-year six-months suspended prison sentence for serious arson, when fuelled by alcohol and anger he set fire to a house, which he occupied with his family in June 2018. Premium content -
Wednesday 30 January 2019 7:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Hateni Kaufusi (32) was sentenced to five-years nine-months imprisonment for manslaughter, when he stabbed Tolifili Tu'alau with a pair of scissors during a fight at Te’ekiu in February last year. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 January 2019 6:37pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : In an unanimous verdict this afternoon, a jury found ‘Atonio Moeaki (40) guilty of murdering Dr Sione Feo Lau’i (23). He was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Supreme Court judge. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 January 2019 6:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Reliance has located the damaged fibre optic internet cable at sea today, 29 January, near Tongatapu, but they found cable was lying around 100 metres south-east off-course from where it was originally laid. Premium content -
Tuesday 29 January 2019 3:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The final submissions by legal counsel in the trial of ‘Atonio Moeaki (40) charged with the murder of a young dentist, Dr Sione Feo Lau’i (23,) was completed on January 28 at the Supreme Court in Nuku’alofa. Premium content -
Monday 28 January 2019 10:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A submarine internet cable maintenance ship Reliance arrived in Nuku’alofa, this evening, and berthed at the Queen Sālote Wharf, after sailing to Tonga from Samoa over the weekend. Premium content -
Monday 28 January 2019 6:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Digicel Tonga’s CEO Francis Thomsen said today that the outage in the submarine cable network that connects the Kingdom to the outside world has put “the country into digital isolation”. Premium content
