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Alai Ahio killed in targeted Sydney shooting linked to gangland tensions

Kaniva Staff - 20/05/2026

Tonga budget allocates $3.2m to failing Lulutai Airline despite crisis warning

Kalino Latu - 20/05/2026

Tongan father of four earns MBA while pursuing mission to improve Pacific lives

Kaniva Staff - 20/05/2026

Globe‑trotting controversy resurfaces: Speaker concerned as Lands Minister misses oath for second time

Kalino Latu - 20/05/2026

Mother shot dead in Vava’u to be laid to rest

Kaniva Staff - 19/05/2026

‘Uncivil Servants’ at 40: How a Tongan poem still mirrors Tonga’s public service failures

Kalino Latu - 18/05/2026

Tonga protects whistleblowers — But without an Information Act, who exposes the truth?

Kalino Latu - 17/05/2026

Around New Zealand & the World

NZ, Australian police announce Colombian base to combat Pacific drug surge

Kaniva Staff - 20/05/2026 0

By Kaya Selby, RNZ Pacific journalist, and is republished with permission Australian and New Zealand police will fund a strike force in Colombia to fight...

Two arrested at Auckland airport with $2.2m cocaine haul

20/05/2026

Eleven Fijian police officers investigated for ties to Auckland drug trade links

18/05/2026

Appeal dismissed: Fetuʻu’s life sentence upheld in drug case with Comanchero links

18/05/2026

Tonga and Australia sign $10 million Tala Kei Kapa humanitarian partnership

18/05/2026

National

‘Uncivil Servants’ at 40: How a Tongan poem still mirrors Tonga’s public service failures

Kalino Latu - 18/05/2026 0

Editorial - Forty years after it was first penned, Uncivil Servants remains uncomfortably relevant in Tonga, capturing with eerie precision the same public service...

Tonga protects whistleblowers — But without an Information Act, who exposes the truth?

17/05/2026

Complaints allegedly lodged against former Chief Judge Lord Dalgety of Sikotilani

17/05/2026

‘Swift Wave Global’ emerges after BG Wealth collapse leaves Tongans reeling

17/05/2026

The long memory of migration: From the ‘Girmitiyas’ to Tonga’s Chinese passport era

16/05/2026

National

Rock attack leaves teen with facial injuries and tooth loss in Kolovai assault

Kalino Latu - 16/05/2026 0

Nuku'alofa, Tonga — A Kolovai man who struck a teenager in the face with a rock, leaving him with severe facial injuries and lost...

Former MP Johnny Taione trial ends after witnesse fail to appear

16/05/2026

Judge’s ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ failure ends life sentence for ‘Anita Toutaiolepo

15/05/2026

Appeal crushed: Former MP Vātau Hui’s indecent assault jail sentence upheld

15/05/2026

Tongan man dies after being struck by vehicle while changing tyre in Hawaiʻi

15/05/2026

Around New Zealand & the World

Justis Huni eyes blockbuster opportunity with potential spot on Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua card

Kaniva Staff - 17/05/2026 0

Australian-Tongan heavyweight boxer Justis Huni is reportedly set to headline a major pay-per-view boxing event on home soil this August, in what could become...

Drug courier jailed for smuggling 20kg of meth through Auckland airport

16/05/2026

Suspicions spark cannabis bust in Ōtāhuhu warehouse

16/05/2026

Digital driver licences are now legal: what you need to know

14/05/2026

Life-sentenced meth offender released after appeal in Tonga

13/05/2026

Locked up 24 hours ‘for Carrying Books’: Man denied entry to New Zealand removed to Fiji instead of Tonga

Kalino Latu - 30/04/2026 0

A Tongan national was denied entry into New Zealand, detained for about 24 hours at Auckland International Airport, and then removed to Fiji instead...