600 pigs, 5000 baskets of food for Royal Taumafa Kava ceremony

Before dawn Saturday, the King’s matapules, who had travelled from near and far, gathered at Pangai Lahi, next to the Royal Palace in Nuku’alofa, to prepare for a spectacular traditional Taumafa Kava (Royal

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Farewell Palemia Pohiva

By Samisoni Pareti Tonga today buried the man who dared 30 years ago to take on the might and mana of the Pacific’s last surviving monarchy and got rewarded as the kingdom’s first commoner to be elected

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