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Friday 6 September 2024 9:02pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s National Football team, Tu’ulalupe, defeated the Cook Islands 3-1 today, at the FIFA World Cup 26™ Oceania Qualifiers in Apia, Samoa. They have another match on Monday to determine who will advance to the group stages of round two next month.
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Thursday 5 September 2024 10:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : With an emphasis on youth empowerment, education, drugs, and climate change, the Tonga Youth Parliament 2024 was formally opened today with a ceremony held at the Parliament Chambers in Tongatapu. Premium content -
Thursday 5 September 2024 10:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Her Majesty Queen Nanasipau'u Tuku'aho is attending the South Pacific Area Seminar with a delegation, in Apia, Samoa this week. The South Pacific Area Seminar hosted by Methodist Church of Samoa, gathers influential female leaders, hundreds of women, and community members from across the region and the world to discuss key issues in the South Pacific, and strengthening faith and spreading of the Gospel. Premium content -
Thursday 5 September 2024 10:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Ngalu Fānifo Regional Project is a Pacific-led project that aims to improve mental health and wellbeing in Tonga and Vanuatu, by strengthening the capacity of health and community providers to provide mental health care. The Pasifika Medical Association (PMA) will led the three-year programme, in partnership with Tonga and Vanuatu Ministries of Health, and funded by the Australian Government. Premium content -
Thursday 5 September 2024 6:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 'Ikale Tahi team will be captained by Ben Tameifuna to clash with the Flying Fijians tomorrow, Friday, 6 September, with kick-off set for 4:00pm Tonga time, at Teufaiva Stadium, in Nuku'alofa. -
Wednesday 4 September 2024 3:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific Island Chiefs of Police Forum (PICP) was officially opened yesterday, 3 September by the Prime Minister and Minister for Police, Hon. Hu’akavameiliku. Premium content -
Wednesday 4 September 2024 2:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific Policing Initiative (PPI) was endorsed by the Pacific leaders at the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting last week, on 28 August. The Pacific Policing Initiative is a new regional initiative to strengthen collective peace and security throughout the Pacific. Premium content -
Wednesday 4 September 2024 1:58pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Kuo tuku atu ‘a e Fakamatala Fokotu‘utu‘u Ngāue Fakapa’anga ‘o ‘Aokosi 2024 ‘o e Pangikē Pule Fakafonua ‘a Tonga hili hono tali ia ‘e he Poate ‘a e kau Talēkita. ‘I he fengāue‘aki vāofi mo e Pule’anga ́ mo e ngaahi kupu kehekehe fekau’aki, ‘e fokotu’u ai ‘e he Pangikē Pule ́ ha ngaahi polokalama fakapa’anga fo’ou ‘o hangē ko ha polokalama nō ‘oku tuku atu ‘i ha totongi tupu ‘oku ma’ulalo (concessional credit), pea mo ha polokalama ki hono malu’i ‘a e ngaahi nō (credit guarantees). Ko e fakataumu’a ‘eni ke fakaivia ‘a e sekitoa taautaha ́ ke toe malohi ange ‘a e tupu faka’ekonōmika ́ ‘i he 2025 ́ pea faka‘ai‘ai ‘a e nō ki he ngaahi sekitoa ‘oku ‘ikai ke lahi ha’anau faingamalie nō mei he ngaahi pangikē, mo kinautolu ‘oku tu’u laveangofua ki he feliuliuaki ‘a e ‘ea ́. -
Wednesday 4 September 2024 1:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The National Reserve Bank of Tonga (NRBT) released its Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for August 2024 following its approval by the Board of Directors. In collaboration with Government and other relevant stakeholders, the NRBT is introducing new financing instruments such as a concessional credit facility and a partial credit guarantee scheme to boost private sector financing towards stronger growth recovery in 2025, particularly fostering access to financing for underserved and climate change-vulnerable sectors. -
Tuesday 3 September 2024 8:57pm
Auckland, New Zealand : A vision aid team from the School of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of Auckland will be visiting Tonga for a week from 30 September to 4 October to provide voluntary eye-care to those who need it the most. The team will be based at the Eye Health Clinic at Vaiola Hospital. Premium content -
Tuesday 3 September 2024 8:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : British Barrister, Malcom Bishop KC, officially assumed office as the new Lord Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tonga and President of the Land Court on 2 September 2024. Premium content -
Tuesday 3 September 2024 2:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The United Kingdom is supporting Pacific-led climate solutions with £12.9 million in new funding announced as Indo-Pacific Minister Catherine West joined Pacific leaders for the 53rd Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting in Tonga, on her first overseas visit. -
Tuesday 3 September 2024 10:27am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 'Alifeleti Uepi Latu (33) was sentenced to four years and one month imprisonment, with a part suspended, for numerous charges, which included serious housebreaking and theft of items valued at $22,750 from a house at Tofoa. The defendant was said to be an unemployed drug user who had relied on his mother's money transfers from the United States. He had previous convictions for theft, assault, domestic violence and bodily harm. Premium content -
Monday 2 September 2024 11:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Pacific Islands Forum has censored Taiwan from its leader's communiqué that was announced on Friday, 30 August, to members of the media at Fa’onelua Convention Centre by Troika.1 comment Premium content -
Monday 2 September 2024 11:04pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Viliami Lokotui (31) was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment with the final six months suspended for charges that included possession of 2.69 grams of methamphetamine, at a residence in Malapo. Premium content -
Monday 2 September 2024 10:58pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s National Football team, Tu’ulalupe, will compete against the Cook Islands on Friday, 6 September, at the FIFA World Cup Qualifiers (Oceania), in Apia, Samoa. Premium content -
Saturday 31 August 2024 11:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : One big priority for the annual UN Climate Change Conference 2024 (COP29) is to make the climate Loss and Damage Fund operational, said HE Mukhtar Babayev, the COP29 President-Designate, who was in Tonga this week to meet Pacific Islands leaders, attending the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting. -
Friday 30 August 2024 10:38pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The first Pacific-led and member-owned climate and disaster resilience financing facility, the Pacific Resilience Facility (PRF) will be headquartered in Tonga. The PRF has got a total pledges of USD$137 million, as announced today, at Fa'onelua Center, by Troika as one of the important outcomes of the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting in Tonga this week. Premium content -
Friday 30 August 2024 10:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific joined prime ministers and presidents from across the Region and United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting in Tonga this week. At the high-level meeting, Dr Saia Ma’u Piukala called on leaders of Pacific islands and other countries to make health a high priority on their agenda, in the context of the climate catastrophe that is putting the Pacific in peril. Premium content -
Friday 30 August 2024 9:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The European Union Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, made a site visit to the Climate and Wash Resilience Community Project, at Popua this week. Premium content
