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Tuesday 17 October 2023 11:37pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : One more volcanic eruption was detected in the past 24 hours from Home Reef and prior to this were five eruptions, Tonga Geological Services reported today. Home reef is located soutwest of late Island in the Vava’u Group and mariners are still required to remain at least 4km away from the area.
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Monday 16 October 2023 11:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The biggest hog farm in Tonga, Season Farm at 'Utulau, is raising over 200 commercial swines (sinamanu) and 5000 piglets. Owners, Lu and Emily Lin, led a tour around the farm with the Minister for Agriculture, Food, and Forest, Lord Fohe, and CEO Dr. Viliami Toalei Manu, on 13 October. They hope that locally farmed meat can help reduce Tonga's high imports of poultry. Premium content -
Monday 16 October 2023 10:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Seinivunga Lafo’ou (30) was sentenced to 20-months imprisonment, partially suspended, for forgery and theft of around $34,000 from her employer, National Rugby League Tonga, taken from a bank account in 46 systematic unauthorised withdrawals over 13-months. She tried to frame her co-worker for the theft. The funds stolen were a grant from the Government of Australia for the development of NRL in Tonga. Premium content -
Monday 16 October 2023 10:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Malakai Fonua (25) was sentenced to 22-months imprisonment with the final 10-months suspended on conditions for charges of possession of illicit drugs, including 1.74 grams of methamphetamine. Premium content -
Monday 16 October 2023 10:27pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Continuing volcanic activity at the Home Reef in Tonga poses low risk to the Vava’u and Ha’apai Communities, Tonga Geological Services stated today, after recording five recent eruptions - two in the past 24 hours and three during the last two days. Premium content -
Monday 16 October 2023 4:55pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An increase in new petroleum prices for October – November will be effective on Wednesday, 18 October, when wholesale petrol, kerosene and diesel will all increase. Premium content -
Monday 16 October 2023 10:20am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Thirty Tongan nationals have been safely evacuated from Israel, including some from New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji, on a 61 passengers-flight to London, chartered by the Tonga Government at the weekend. Premium content -
Saturday 14 October 2023 2:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Corrosive ash residue from the Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai eruption is destroying Tongatapu's new High Voltage network, in what Tonga Power Ltd. said yesterday is an unprecedented crisis that will cost around $20 million pa'anga to fix. Premium content -
Friday 13 October 2023 10:55pm
Wellington, New Zealand : A Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon crew has found three Fijian fishers, nine days after they were reported missing aboard their 8.5-metre wooden fishing boat. Premium content -
Thursday 12 October 2023 10:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Ngaahi palani ngaue ki hono fakasi’isi’I e matemate ‘a e ma’u’anga ‘uhila fakatupunga ‘e he efu mei he mo’unga afi HTHH ki he laine tufaki ‘uhila volota ma’olunga (HVABC). -
Thursday 12 October 2023 9:37pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Power Ltd. is addressing power outages due to the HTHH volcanic ashfall impact on the new High Voltage Aerial Bundled Cabling (HV ABC) network infrastructure in Tonga. This ash residue has exacerbated friction between the cabling, mixed with cable heat from electricity flow, sunlight heat and the corrosive nature of the solidified abrasive ash substances, resulting in short circuits across parts of our High Voltage network. - Tonga Power Ltd. -
Thursday 12 October 2023 6:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : There will be nine days of Public Holidays in Tonga for 2024, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed today. Premium content -
Thursday 12 October 2023 4:45pm
: Fij's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka welcomed the safe return home of 198 Fijians who were in Jerusalem when war broke out between Israel and Hamas on the Gaza border. They were given a traditional welcome at Nadi International Airport this morning, 12 October, when they arrived on a Fiji Airways flight that had flown them from Tel Aviv. Premium content -
Thursday 12 October 2023 4:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : ‘Uhila Tu’i (33), who is currently serving a prison term for firearm offences, was further sentenced to four and a half-years imprisonment for drug charges that included possession of 33.97 grams of methamphetamine seized in his van at Hala’ovave. Premium content -
Thursday 12 October 2023 12:08pm
Jerusalem, Israel : About 50 Tongan pilgrims, who were stranded in Israel amid the Hamas attacks launched over the weekend, are reported to be safe during the ongoing conflict. Tonga's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today they are in collaboration with the Tonga High Commission in London, (Tonga's accredited diplomatic mission to Israel), and are working to ensure the safety of Tongan nationals who are currently in Israel. Premium content -
Thursday 12 October 2023 12:00pm
Princeton, USA : Hamas’s brazen and vicious attacks within Israel have rightly drawn condemnation from around the world. If this is a war, as both sides agree it is, then Hamas’s deliberate targeting of civilians counts as a major war crime. But the brutality demonstrated by Hamas did not emerge in a vacuum. The lesson of what is currently happening in Israel and Gaza is that violence breeds more violence. The last real chance of avoiding the tragic conflict being waged between Israel and Hamas was destroyed by a single killing: the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. The assassin was not a Palestinian militant, but an Israeli extremist opposed to the Oslo Accords for peace. The great beneficiaries of the assassination were Israeli nationalists, above all Binyamin Netanyahu. -
Wednesday 11 October 2023 6:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child this evening, is hosted by the Pacific Girl Reference Group members, at Tanoa International Hotel, with a film festival showcasing short films as well as archived programme videos highlighting issues for girls in the Pacific. Premium content -
Wednesday 11 October 2023 5:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four men were arrested and charged with possession of illicit drugs and drug utensils, after a Police raid at Tu’atākilangi on Monday, 9 October 2023. The men were remanded. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 October 2023 5:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Disaster response requires effective coordination and communication, the participants in Exercise Longreach were told this week. More than 70 representatives from first responder agencies in Tonga are meeting in an ongoing collaboration between the Australian Defence Force (ADF), the National Disaster Risk Management Office (formerly NEMO) and His Majesty's Armed Forces, in an exercise to make sure all systems are in place for the next disaster response whenever it may strike in Tonga. Premium content -
Tuesday 10 October 2023 4:16pm
Lille, France : Toutai Kefu has finished his seven-year stint as coach of the 'Ikale Tahi saying that for the future what the Tongan national rugby team needs most is the provision of more preparation time together and more games. Premium content
