NUKUALOFA, Tonga --- Tongan police have appealed against a decision to discharge three of the six men accused of the manslaughter of a New Zealand police officer last year. Constable Kali Fungavaka died in hospital in Nuku'alofa after being assaulted in custody following his arrest for drunkenness.
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga (MATANGI TONGA) ---- Gloria Guttenbeil Pole'o was appointed as the Clerk of the House effective on Monday 28 January 2013, the Office of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga announced.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga --- The Tonga Defense Services and the New Zealand Defense Force have strengthened their relationship today with the signing of a treaty agreement between Prime Minister, Lord Tu'ivakano and Dr Jonathan Coleman, NZ's Minister for Defense.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga --- The Tonga Defense Services and the New Zealand Defense Force have strengthened their relationship today with the signing of a treaty agreement between Prime Minister, Lord Tu'ivakano and Dr Jonathan Coleman, NZ's Minister for Defense.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga --- Military representatives from Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, France, Chile and Tonga are holding a meeting to discuss defence and security in the South Pacific.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga --- Two Tongan policemen and another man accused of the manslaughter of a New Zealand police officer Kali Fungavaka, who died from injuries received in police custody in 2012, made their first appearance at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa before Justice Charles Cato Wednesday.
Today Tonga’s National ICT Day showcased the advent of high-speed internet in July, under the first phase of the Pacific Regional Connectivity Project supported by the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Scheduled to be commissioned in July, an 826km underwater fiber optic cable linking Tonga to Fiji ...
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga---- Prisoners are expected to recount what they saw when a New Zealand police officer was allegedly beaten at a Tongan police station.
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga --- ProComm Services, a new Help Line-Call Centre for telecommunications services in Tonga was officially launched by Princess Angelika Thursday at the Tungi Collonade, Nuku'alofa.
NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga ---- The New Zealand-owned company which operates Tonga's sole domestic airline has pulled out of scheduled services and from Monday will only provide charter services in the kingdom.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (RADIO AUSTRALIA) ---- A new report by the Asian Development Bank says Tonga is facing increasing pressure to create jobs for out-of-work youth, with only 26 per cent of the population over 15 having paid employment.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga ---- Two Tongan Lords, including the current Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga and a former Speaker, have pending court cases at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court, after being charged with offences of illegal possession of arms and ammunitions.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand ---Tongan overstayers who had their criminal records wiped by Tongan Police have been deported from New Zealand.
The sole Polynesian constitutional monarch, King Tupou VI and his spouse Queen Nanasipau’u Taku’aho completed their first State Visit to neighbouring New Zealand on 28 February 2013.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga ---- The Tongan Parliament has over-spent its budget by 7% and it can't afford to pay staff who work overtime, revealed the Speaker of the House, Lord Fakafanua.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga ---- Thousands have expressed outrage on social media this week after a video emerged showing teenage students in Tonga being beaten with a four-foot stick.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga ---Two Tongan policemen and a prisoner have been committed to Supreme Court trial over the manslaughter of New Zealand police officer Kali Fungavaka last year, the Matangi Tonga reports.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga ---- Tonga's Fisheries Sector is to be exempted from the 15 percent Consumption Tax on sales, the Prime Minister, Lord Tu'ivakano told a gathering in Nuku'alofa.
NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga --- Tonga's first small wind turbine project is expected to start operation in mid-May at Nakolo village, in a Tonga Power Ltd project that aims to collect data and prove experience in wind generation.
The Tonga Energy Roadmap (TERM) sets admirable standards for the region. Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Tuiloma Neroni Slade, made this point at the Pacific Leaders’ Energy Summit held in Nuku’alofa, Tonga, last month. TERM places government in the lead in managing multiple donors in a coherent manner around ...
Tonga’s domestic air travellers have been assured they won’t be affected when the current domestic airline Chathams Pacific pulls out in March. A new locally owned domestic airline would take over servicing Tonga’s domestic routes, Tonga’s Deputy Prime Minister Samiu Vaipulu has confirmed.
If the mana in kava still packs a punch, it is sorely needed. The Pacific’s kava producing nations are engaged in yet another rescue mission to save once and for all the reputation of this commodity.
It was an elaborate and sombre funeral. A special one befitting a king who will be known as the King who gave his people the right to decide their own government.
Ignore the political sideshows and pre-World Cup scaremongering. The possibility of Fiji, Samoa and Tonga ever hosting a Rugby World Cup maybe slim, but New Zealand hasn’t forgotten its Pacific islands neighbours as the country counts down to hosting this year’s biggest international sporting event in September.
