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  • Wednesday 11 May 2016 9:03pm


    Port Vila, Vanuatu
    : The number of sports allowed at future Pacific Games has now been reduced from 26 to 24, with the decision made after a Pacific Games Council General Assembly meeting yesterday in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The number of compulsory sports has increased from 14 to 16, with sailing and triathlon being promoted.
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  • Wednesday 11 May 2016 9:01pm


    Sydney, Australia
    : Samoa coach Matt Parish criticized international rugby league organisers in the National Rugby League (NRL) after it was revealed Samoan players received no match payments for their game against Tonga at Pirtek Stadium, Parramatta last Saturday night. The Tonga side received $500 each only after they sourced their own sponsorship.
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  • Wednesday 11 May 2016 8:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Safe drinking water will be easier to access for around 4,000 people in six villages across western and eastern Tongatapu thanks to the New Zealand Government committing NZ$51,000 to Caritas Tonga to restore water supply catchments. Works include renovating and rehabilitating decrepit rainwater tanks and installing new water refill stations.
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  • Wednesday 11 May 2016 12:32pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Five new Shared Directors for Tonga's Transport Sector Public Enterprises have been named by the Ministry of Public Enterprises on May 9. The Transport Sector Board includes the Ports Authority Tonga, Tonga Airports Limited and Friendly Islands Shipping Agency.
  • Wednesday 11 May 2016 11:39am

    : Facebook, Robert Blake says: No disrespect to Australia for supporting, thanks- But this is undermining Tonga's Democratic system. ...When Australia help release that pressure by paying AUD$12million...the Government no longer see needs to answer to its people, no longer needs to justify their action to the people. ...coz the Gov't is employed by Australia.
  • Tuesday 10 May 2016 8:46pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The U.S. guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) arrived in Nuku’alofa yesterday morning, 9 May on a three day routine visit.
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  • Tuesday 10 May 2016 6:28pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : In just two days, today and yesterday, a total of 328 confirmed cases of conjunctivitus (pink eye) have been reported to Vaiola Hospital in Nuku'alofa, as the number of cases continues to rise.
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  • Tuesday 10 May 2016 6:23pm


    Noumea, New Caledonia
    : Raising awareness to protect Pacific whales in the face of emerging threats is part of a regional campaign ‘Protect Pacific Whales’ recently launched by the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
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  • Tuesday 10 May 2016 4:18pm


    London, United Kingdom
    : Tonga and other small states that are the most vulnerable, socially and economically in the world will be the focus at The Commonwealth’s Fourth Global Biennial Conference held in the Seychelles this week. Tonga’s Executive Director of the Civil Society Forum of Tonga (CSFT), Emeline Siale Ilolahia, will make a presentation at the event.
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  • Tuesday 10 May 2016 1:20pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga will receive AUD$4 million in Budget Support, helping to prop up government salaries and other expenses, for each financial year over the next three years, from the Australian Government.
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  • Tuesday 10 May 2016 1:14pm


    Noumea, New Caledonia
    : Dr ‘Ofa Keitu‘u of Tonga, has been appointed as Director of the Statistics for Development Division at the Pacific Community (SPC) based in Noumea, New Caledonia, taking effect on 1 July 2016.
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  • Monday 9 May 2016 5:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A conjunctivitis (pink eye) outbreak in Tongatapu, has seen 135 people flocking to Vaiola Hospital this morning with confirmed symptoms of the virulent eye infection. In the last five weeks the hospital has registered more cases of conjunctivitis than for the whole of 2015.
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  • Monday 9 May 2016 4:31pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The court case against Lord Tu’iha’ateiho has been adjourned to Tuesday 17 May, Tonga Police confirmed today.
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  • Monday 9 May 2016 3:10pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 49-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the death of a 46-year-old man whom he allegedly ran over with his vehicle on By-Pass Road early on Sunday morning, 8 May. The deceased is alleged to have been sitting on the road.
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  • Sunday 8 May 2016 11:36pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : In a colourful celebration of Polynesian, Native American and Latin American song and dance, Brigham Young University students "Living Legends" opened their Tongan goodwill visit with a Royal Performance for Queen Nanasipau'u at 'Atele Stadium on Saturday night. A public performance will be held at 7:00pm on Tuesday May 10. Photos by Pesi Fonua
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  • Sunday 8 May 2016 7:57pm


    Parramatta, Australia
    : Mate Ma’a Tonga were defeated 18 – 6 by Toa Samoa last night in a thrilling 2016 Pacific Test Match in Pirtek stadium in Parramatta, Sydney.
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  • Sunday 8 May 2016 7:56pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A new salary structure for civil servants that was approved by the Tongan Cabinet on 13 April, to be implemented on 1 July 2016 in the new budget, has been stopped in its tracks, because the Public Service Association (PSA) claims it is unlawful. Now the pressure group may have succeeded in their demand for Cabinet to change a decision, in return for the PSA withholding a threatened injunction against the Cabinet’s approval of the new salary structure. By Pesi Fonua.
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  • Sunday 8 May 2016 7:15pm


    Suva, Fiji
    : Tonga’s men’s and women’s volleyball teams, were both defeated in the semi-finals of the 2016 Oceania Volleyball Championships in Fiji.
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  • Sunday 8 May 2016 4:37pm


    Auckland, New Zealand
    : Auditors from across the Pacific including Tonga met in Auckland this week to share information about a new online auditing software TeamMate, in a workshop hosted by the Pacific Association of Supreme Audit Institutions (PASAI).
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  • Saturday 7 May 2016 1:35pm


    Parramatta, Australia
    : Mate Ma’a Tonga are set to collide against rivals Toa Samoa at Pirtek Stadium in Parramatta tonight at 10:40pm (Tongan Time) May 7. The game will be the fourth annual Pacific test match between the two teams since 2013.
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