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Thursday 28 April 2016 5:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police await a pathologist's report before they will make further comment on the death of a New Zealand visitor Gregory Reynolds, whose body was found on Sunday, 24 April in a dense bush area close to the Liku’alofa Beach Resort on the western side of Tongatapu.
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Thursday 28 April 2016 4:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga has been excluded from the 2016 World Rugby U20 Trophy tournament. Fiji and Samoa are both currently competing in the competition which commenced last week in Zimbabwe. The annual U20 Trophy tournament hosts second tier nations who did not qualify for the premium U20 World Rugby Championship. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 10:15pm
Cardiff, Wales : Welsh rugby club, the Cardiff Blues, honoured their most capped player Taufa'ao Filise at a special testimonial dinner last week. The dinner celebrated a decade of service to the club by Taufa’ao who comes from Malapo in Tonga. -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 10:08pm
New York, United States : Six Pacific Islands of the 15 overall countries submitted their ratification of the Paris Agreement during a special signing ceremony on 22 April in New York. Fiji, Nauru, Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa and Tuvalu submitted their ratifications. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 10:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new $30.2 million (AUD) Aid Partnership is to be established between Tonga and Australia following discussions held last week between Tonga's Minister of Finance, Hon. ‘Aisake ‘Eke,and the Australian High Commissioner to Tonga, HE Mr Andrew Ford. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 4:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 31-year-old man was charged today with murder in relation to the death of his elder brother during an alleged fight at a home in Mataika, Tongatapu, last night Tuesday, 26 April. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 1:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Hundreds of students from secondary and middle schools from around Tonga gathered at Teufaiva Outdoor Stadium yesterday, 26 April at the start of the four days 92nd Annual Inter-Collegiate Athletics Competition 2016. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 April 2016 11:37am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Anna Jane Vea will represent Tonga at commemorations for the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme in France in September, as the winner of a World War I essay competition run by the New Zealand High Commission, in Tonga. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 April 2016 8:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Rugby players of Tongan heritage are filling up the team rosters in America’s inaugural PRO Rugby tournament, which kicked off on Saturday, April 23. There are at least 20 players of Tongan heritage playing in the tournament, most of whom are US-born. -
Tuesday 26 April 2016 6:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific Games Council is eager to see a Master Plan for the 2019 Pacific Games in Tonga turn into reality, and to make this happen the Tongan Government should swiftly secure contracts for the design and the construction of sporting facilities and venues required, the President of the Pacific Games Council, Vidhya Lakhan said at a Press Conference in Nuku'alofa on Friday, 22 April. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 April 2016 2:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A visiting Tongan couple from New Zealand who wanted to adopt a young girl had their application rejected by the Supreme Court on Friday, April 22. The couple intended to take the 5 year-old to be raised in their home in Christchurch. However, the court concluded that the child was better off living in Tonga.1 comment Premium content -
Tuesday 26 April 2016 11:29am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s own ON THE SPOT Arts Initiative (Inc.) celebrated its 10th anniversary on Friday receiving a generous donation of $15,000 from the Bank of the South Pacific – Tonga. Premium content -
Tuesday 26 April 2016 11:01am
Paunangisu, Vanuatu : Locals from the village of Paunangisu in Vanuatu have proclaimed their Public Toilet as being "the best in the South Pacific" and are charging visitors 200 Vatu ($2 pa'anga) to use it. Locals have a special rate of 50 Vatu, and its free for children. The business venture is so far proving successful and the villagers have even set up a website to promote the toilet. -
Tuesday 26 April 2016 10:27am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The body of a missing New Zealand visitor Gregory Reynolds was found in a dense bush area close to the Liku’alofa Beach Resort in Tongatapu on Sunday, 24 April. Tonga Police said no further details will be released at this stage. Premium content -
Monday 25 April 2016 10:27pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau'u attended the ANZAC Day Dawn Service today, April 25, at the seafront cenotaph in Nuku'alofa. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the service of Australian and New Zealand forces in the First World War, on the Western Front (France and Belgium) in the Battle of the Somme, with the support of Pacific Island nations, including Tonga. Premium content -
Monday 25 April 2016 5:55pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Fijian 7s rugby player Masivesi Dakuwaqa is partially blind with a blurred left eye. But this hasn’t stopped Masivesi from being a phenomenal player for Fiji and the 22 year-old has become a crowd favourite Premium content -
Sunday 24 April 2016 6:19pm
Auckland : One of Tonga’s greatest musicians, Bill Sevesi (born Wilfred Jeffs), passed away yesterday April 23. He was aged 92. Bill Sevesi was an early pioneer of modern Pacific Island Music and is credited with popularising and introducing the Hawaiian guitar key to Tonga and other Pacific Islands. Bill also introduced Tongan music to the airwaves for the first time. He was inducted in the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2015. Premium content -
Saturday 23 April 2016 4:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Obituary. A Tongan life peer, Taniela Hoko'ila Tufui (Dan), formerly Lord Tufui of Talaheu, died on April 19 at the age of 83, in Ballarat, Australia. A barrister, he was the first Tongan to head the Law Department, was a long serving Chief Secretary to the Government of Tonga and Secretary to Cabinet, and a Privy Councillor. Premium content -
Friday 22 April 2016 9:16pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Michaela Mapakaitolo (18) of Tonga High School is Tonga’s nominee for a two-week study tour to Japan this year, after winning the 7th Japanese Speech Contest open-category on Friday, 22 April in Nuku’alofa. Premium content -
Friday 22 April 2016 8:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : NRL legend, Andrew Johns has heavily criticised the eligibility rules in international rugby league. He said that Tongan rugby league players not selected for the Kiwis or Kangaroos should not have to wait 2 years to play for Tonga. Premium content
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