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Tuesday 9 April 2013 10:50am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Court of Appeal Session began at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on 8 April with a new judge Hon. Sir Peter Blanchard, and will hear 10 cases, including appeals over sentencing in two rape cases.
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Tuesday 9 April 2013 6:15am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Violence is a learned behavior. Community violence is a traumatic event that is a bad symptom of something that has reached deep into our society. It is a behavior of citizens who are stressed, who are trying to cope and solve problems. Some of the sources of stress include poverty, lack of housing, joblessness, family pressures, and hopelessness. ...In random community violence, like we are seeing here in Tongatapu, there are no warnings. This should make us all realize that something like this could happen to us. By Kristi Seymour. Premium content -
Friday 5 April 2013 11:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga Police are investigating the homicide death of a young man who died in a machete attack in a village hall in Vava‘u.1 comment Premium content -
Friday 5 April 2013 11:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga A will walk away empty handed in the 2013 IRB Pacific Rugby Cup after finishing its New Zealand tour of the tournament with a 70-19 thrashing by the Crusaders Knights in Christchurch last Thursday March 28. Premium content -
Friday 5 April 2013 11:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 'Ofa Tu'ikolovatu, of Gio Recycling, was elected as the new President of the Women in Sustainable Enterprises (WISE) Tonga Inc. at its second Annual General Meeting in Nuku'alofa, on Wednesday 3 April. Premium content -
Friday 5 April 2013 10:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Chief Justice Hon. Michael Scott is to decide whether the Supreme Court has the jurisdiction to review the internal proceedings of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga, in an application brought by Tonga's former Prime Minister Lord Sevele and Paul Karalus, a former Minister of Transport, who are claiming that their reputations were damaged by the Report of a Parliamentary Select Committee. Premium content -
Thursday 4 April 2013 7:39am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Six overseas Tongans have been deported to Tonga or have voluntarily left New Zealand after their criminal records were wrongly wiped-off by Tonga Police under a former practice that remains under police investigation in Nuku'alofa, while New Zealand immigration alerts have been issued at borders on the names of other Tongan individuals who have been identified to have concealed criminal records.1 comment Premium content -
Wednesday 3 April 2013 4:45pm
Suva, Fiji : The 44th Pacific Islands Forum and related meetings will be held from 3 to 6 September 2013 in Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands. Premium content -
Tuesday 2 April 2013 7:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Medical equipment and supplies worth $2.9 million pa'anga was handed over by Japan's Ambassador to Tonga HE Dr Kazuchika Hamuro at Vaiola Hospital today. Premium content -
Tuesday 2 April 2013 7:41pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Training Tongan law enforcement officers how to detect concealed drugs, particularly methamphetamine, was the aim of a Drug Identification Course held at the Tonga Defence Services headquarters on March 26-27. Premium content -
Tuesday 2 April 2013 7:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new Parliamentary Select Committee that was established to further consider the Nuku'alofa Development Corporation Report, met today for the second time. Premium content -
Tuesday 2 April 2013 7:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Hon Dr 'Ana Taufe'ulungaki the Minister of Education and Training is taking a month's leave from 3 April, and the Prime Minister will be Acting Minister of Education until she returns. Premium content -
Sunday 31 March 2013 4:16pm
Suva, Fiji : The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat PIFS will soon begin work on a case study of the Tonga Energy Roadmap (TERM) for regional and global learning and replication. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 March 2013 10:54pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Future projections for Tonga’s current debt crisis are not looking good, with an ever-rising tide of debt repayments visible over the next three years, leading to concerns that the government will be unable to maintain basic services. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 March 2013 10:15pm
Brisbane, Australia : Sulieni Layt an Australian was granted naturalization as a Tongan citizen at a ceremony led by Tonga's High Commissioner to Australia Princess Latufuipeka Tuku'aho, in Brisbane on March 21. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 March 2013 10:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A ruling on the Preliminary Inquiry into the death of Kali Fungavaka is expected to be handed down on April 10 at the Nukualofa Magistrate's Court. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 March 2013 10:06pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Four young Tongan athletes will travel to China next year to represent Tonga at the Youth Olympic Games 2014 in the city of Nanjing. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 March 2013 9:58pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Energy Road Map will get a $6.5 Million boost from the European Union over the next three months after a deal was signed between the European Union and the Tongan Government at Pacific Energy Summit in Auckland on Monday March 25. Premium content -
Wednesday 27 March 2013 4:50pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan economy is stuck in a "development trap", according an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report on the current state of the Tongan economy that was released on Monday, March 25.1 comment Premium content -
Tuesday 26 March 2013 3:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A special inter-governmental organisation made of Five Melanesian countries celebrated its Silver Jubilee last week at the University of the South Pacific Laucala Campus in Suva, Fiji, when the chief guest Sir Michael Somare urged urged greater trade and economic cooperation between the countries of the region. Premium content
