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Monday 21 November 2016 5:05pm
Vaini, Tongatapu, Tonga : An Eco-tourism project, Vai ko Felefonu (Felefonu Pool) in Vaini was officially launched by the Acting Prime Minister, Lord Ma’afu and his son Hon. Tevita 'Unga last Friday, 18 November, after the area received a $70,000 make-over. The project has provided a landscaped space that can be used for the selling of handicrafts by women and youth interested in tourism activities.
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Monday 21 November 2016 4:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Thirty four cannabis plants were uprooted and seized during a Tonga Police Operation in 'Ohonua, ‘Eua, of Friday, in addition to 458 cannabis plants that were initially seized last week. Premium content -
Monday 21 November 2016 4:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A fire gutted a Chinese shop on Vaha’akolo Road at Tofoa on Saturday night, 19 November. The Fire Service said the fire started from a back room where a stove and gas bottle was located and engulfed the building. There were no suspicious circumstances found. Premium content -
Saturday 19 November 2016 8:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's reputation as the Friendly Islands is being threatened by criminal thugs –thought to be from the same group, who are attacking Tonga's Chinese shopkeepers with a brutality that is breathtaking. Shop surveillance videos released to Matangi Tonga this week show extremely violent crimes. The videos record attacks – in one a gun is fired to the side of a woman shopkeeper – and another where a Pahu shopkeeper, hit by a suckerpunch to the face, falls backward suffering severe head injuries. He remains paralysed and fed on a tube.2 comments Premium content -
Friday 18 November 2016 7:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Elizabeth Kite, Tonga’s first youth representative at the Commonwealth Youth Parliament (CYP) held in Canada last week, says the experience has been one of the most inspiring events in her life to date. She was inspired to see so many female politicians and how people regarded that as "normal". She now aims to pursue a career in Tongan politics. Premium content -
Friday 18 November 2016 6:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A $35 million pa’anga Youth Employment Project financed by the World Bank to be handled by the Government of Tonga starting in July 2017, will see funds disbursed over four-years to address youth unemployment in Tonga where the problems of idle youth are enormous and related to youth related anti-social behaviour and criminal activity. Premium content -
Friday 18 November 2016 6:55pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Ben Kealy from Ireland is the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer for Digicel Tonga starting on Friday, November 18 for a period up to two-years. Digicel Tonga also launched its ‘Get Gifted Christmas’ campaign this morning with the lighting of a Christmas tree is planned to be held tonight, at Digicel Square, CBD. Premium content -
Friday 18 November 2016 6:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four Tongan nationals, including two former civil servants who pleaded guilty to charges in a Tongan passport forgery case were all sent to Hu'atolitoli Prison on Friday, November 18 after being sentenced at the Nuku’alofa Supreme Court. Premium content -
Friday 18 November 2016 6:39pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 21 year-old man from Pahu has been arrested and charged by Tonga Police following a brutal assault on a 58-year old woman at Pahu early Thursday morning, November 17. Premium content -
Thursday 17 November 2016 9:18pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Telusa Veainu at fullback is the only change that Toutai Kefu, the ‘Ikale Tahi coach, has made to the team that will play against the USA on Saturday, 19 November at Estadio Anoeta, San Sebastian, Spain. Premium content -
Thursday 17 November 2016 9:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Siaki Tongatu'a (40) from Tu'atakilangi has been charged with suspected drug related offences and further detained in custody, after appearing at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court on Monday, November 14. Premium content -
Thursday 17 November 2016 9:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Mo’ui Fo’ou ‘ia Kalaisi Fellowship must vacate the property of the Siasi Tokaikolo ‘ia Kalaisi at Ha’ateiho within 30 days from 9 November, following an order by O. G. Paulsen, the President of the Tonga Land Court Premium content -
Thursday 17 November 2016 9:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two men have been arrested and charged in relation to 458 cannabis plants uprooted and seized together with an unlicensed .22 rifle during two police search warrants executed in a bush allotment in 'Ohonua on the outer island of 'Eua on November 15-16. Premium content -
Thursday 17 November 2016 4:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A brutal attack early this morning on a Nuku'alofa business woman who was sleeping at home in Pahu, has put her into Vaiola Hospital with head and other injuries. Ellen Yu, a grandmother, remains in a critical condition. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 November 2016 11:47pm
Los Angeles, USA : Hon. Frederica Filipe and her two cousins Prince Tungi and Hon. ‘Etani Tuku’aho attended a star studded World Premier of Disney’s highly anticipated Polynesian animated movie 'Moana', at the famed El Capitan Theater in Los Angeles, USA, on 14 November. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 November 2016 6:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A community initiative by Tonga Police to strengthen its relationship with the local Asian community, brought a New Zealand Police Asian Liaison Officer to Tonga last week. NZ Inspector Kai Shao met long time residents and business people who expressed concerns over recent cases where Chinese people in Tonga have been targeted, injured and had a large amount of cash and property stolen. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 November 2016 6:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police have arrested and detained in custody three men who are alleged to have committed separate sexual offences against two young girls and a teenager in Tongatapu over the past week. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 November 2016 8:01pm
Canberra, Australia : Overwhelming demands for travel documents for Tongans in Australia, have been supported by consular visits to Tongans in Brisbane, Canberra and Sydney recently, where consular and passport services were provided by Tonga’s High Commissioner to Australia, Princess Angelika Latufuipeka Tuku’aho and staff, who also held community dialogue sessions in each city. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 November 2016 6:49pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : "Use antibiotics responsibly" is the theme of a World Antibiotics Awareness Week launched in Nuku’alofa on Monday, November 14 to raise awareness about the serious health issue of antibiotic resistance. Tonga's doctors pointed out that misuse of antibiotics is not only dangerous but also costly and urged Tongans to adopt better hygiene to help fight the spread of infectious diseases. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 November 2016 6:27pm
London, England : Joshua Savieti, the co-founder of ICON Creative Tonga in Nuku'alofa, who uses dance and music to engage disaffected youth, received the Commonwealth Youth Worker of the Year for the Pacific Award in London on November 10. Premium content
