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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.
A by-election was held in the Tongan electorate of Vavaʻu 14 on 28 March 2024. [1] The by-election was triggered by the resignation of MP Saia Piukala on 12 January 2024. The election was won by Mo’ale ‘Otunuku.
No. Portrait Name (birth–death) Term of office Ref. Took office Left office Time in office Commander of the Tongan Defence Services 1 Colonel Fetuʻutolu Tupou
Earlier, the Matangi Tonga news site reported that scientists observed massive explosions, thunder and lightning near the volcano after it started erupting early Friday. Satellite images showed a ...
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 ...
ʻAhoʻeitu was born in Nukuʻalofa, Tonga, as the third son and youngest child of Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa Tungī (later King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV). [2] He attended The Leys School in Cambridge from 1973 to 1977, [3] followed by enrolment at the University of East Anglia, where he studied Development Studies between 1977 and 1980.
A by-election was held in the Vavaʻu 16 constituency in Tonga on 14 July 2016. It followed the conviction and unseating of MP ‘Etuate Lavulavu for bribery and campaign overspending, in January. [1] [2]
General elections were held in Tonga on 27 November 2014. [1] All twenty-six elected seats in the single-chamber Legislative Assembly were up for election, although the monarch, acting on the advice of his Prime Minister, retains the possibility to appoint members to Cabinet from outside Parliament, thus granting them a non-elected ex officio seat in Parliament.