Tag: Tongan constitution

COMMENTARY: By Lopeti Senituli in Nuku'alofa In a highly anticipated session of the Tongan Parliament to debate and vote on the second vote of no...

RNZ Pacific Parliamentarians in Tonga will meet on Christmas Eve to select the kingdom's new prime minister, Speaker of the House Lord Fakafanua has confirmed. He...

RNZ Pacific Tongan Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni has resigned, the Tongan Parliament Office has confirmed. Hu'akavameiliku resigned in Parliament today, ahead of the no confidence...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva Tonga Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni Hu’akavameiliku has resigned as Minister of Defence in order to appease King upou...

Tonga has been locked in a political standoff between the country's King Tupou VI and Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni Hu'akavameiliku which erupted into a...

By Kālino Lātū, editor of Kaniva News Dr Sitiveni Halapua, former deputy leader of Tonga’s Democratic Movement, has died aged 74. Born on February 13, 1949,...

Kaniva News Tonga’s Parliament has elected a new prime minister to replace Dr Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa. Siaosi Sovaleni, 51, the current Minister of Education, has won convincingly...

ANALYSIS: By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News Was Tonga's Hon. Vuna Fā’otusia betrayed by his close friends from the nobility and cabinet while being...

By Kalino Latu, editor of Kaniva News The government of Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva has planned an audience with the King of Tonga after a...

By Philip Cass of Kaniva News The King of Tonga has no right to judge the merits of legislation passed by Parliament, according to a...