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The Tonga Meteorological Services said a tsunami warning was declared for all of the archipelago, and data from the Pacific tsunami center showed waves of 80 centimeters (2.7 feet) had been detected.
His death happened Saturday at Faleloa, on the island of Ha'apai in the Tonga archipelago.He was free diving from a boat when he suffered a suspected shallow water blackout, Matangi J.J. Rice ...
Tonga has four weekly newspapers: the Times of Tonga (Taimi o Tonga), the Talaki, the Kele‘a, the Kakalu 'o Tonga, and the Ita. A fifth, the Tonga Chronicle, ceased publication in May 2011. In April 2012, the Tongan government announced the imminent launch of a new weekly newspaper, which might or might not be a revival of the Tonga Chronicle ...
Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni underscored the role of police to provide "freedom from fear" in democracies in a speech to Pacific Islands police chiefs on Tuesday, noting the rising ...
Matangi Tonga is an online newspaper providing Tongan news in both English and Tongan. It is operated by Vava'u Press . The newspaper's Nukuʻalofa office was destroyed in the fires and rioting in November 2006.
Matangi Tonga; T. Times of Tonga; Tonga Chronicle This page was last edited on 13 June 2020, at 02:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
Video footage showing waves hitting coastal areas in Tonga was reported by Sky News. [187] Atatā, a small island off the capital city, was reportedly submerged and rescue operations were being carried out. Images confirmed that most of the island have been wiped out; the New Zealand Defence Force described the damages as "catastrophic". [188]
The 2006 Nukuʻalofa riots, also known as the 2006 Tongan riots, [2] started on 16 November, in the Tongan capital of Nukuʻalofa.The Legislative Assembly of Tonga was due to adjourn for the year and despite promises of action, had done little to advance democracy in the government.