He adopted the name Siaosi (originally Jiaoji), the Tongan version of George, after King George III of England, when he was baptized in 1831.
Aloisio Ilaisa Ma'asi (born 5 February 1982 in Tofoa, Tonga) is a Tongan rugby union player.
Kwek's father, the late Kwek Hong Png left Tongan, Fujian province, China as a penniless teenager for Singapore and subsequently founded the Hong Leong group there.
Mateo Vakatalau Malupo (born 7 July 1988) is a Tongan rugby union player.
Opeti Fonua (born 26 May 1986) is a Tongan rugby union player who plays number 8 for French Top 14 club Bayonne, having transferred from Agen after Agen were relegated.
On the occasion of her marriage to Hahano-ki-Mala'e Kula'a Sione Ngu Namoa (1936–2005), the Vahaʻi of Foʻui, a member of the Tongan nobility, John H. Groberg, then the mission president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Tonga, gave Fusipala and Hahano a copy of the Standard Works of the LDS Church as a wedding present.
Common names include Giant Taro and Elephant Ear Taro, while words for the plant in the various Polynesian languages include Kape (Niuean, Tongan), Ape (Cook Islands Māori, Tahitian, Hawaiian), "ta'amu" in Samoan language, and Pulaka (Tuvalu).
During the 1970s the stable was home to six Tongan wrestlers (including Sione Vailahi and Tonga Fifita) recruited by former maegashira Futaseyama, but when he died in 1975 they were caught up in a succession dispute between former maegashira Ryūō and the man who eventually became the new head, former komusubi Wakafutase.
Baron Vaea, a Tongan noble and former Prime Minister, a relative of Hokafonu, conducted the funeral service which was attended by many hundreds of people.
In an interview with Matangi Tonga during his retirement, Vaea expressed concern for a number of issues affecting Tonga, including the decreasing supplies of the country's fresh water supplies, the environment, the need for additional capital funds and the negative outlook of many Tongan young people.
There were approximately three or four thousand Chinese people living in Tonga in 2001, thus comprising 3 or 4% of the total Tongan population.
Bula is the great great-grand nephew of the traditionally Tongan Prince and former self-forged Fijian chief, Enele Ma'afu.
He was picked to play for the Lion Red XIII against a Tongan Residents side and also represented Auckland in its Rugby League Cup challenge.
These early hymns - still sung today in some of the Methodist sects, such as the Free Church of Tonga and the Church of Tonga - have Tongan tunes and simple, short Tongan lyrics.
Taniela Moa- Rugby (Auckland Blues, Waikato Chief and Tongan International)
Tongan and Niuean constitute the Tongic branch and all others are part of the Nuclear Polynesian branch.
In 1920–1921, she assisted the Bernice P. Bishop Museum's Bayard Dominick Expedition with their mapping of Tongan archaeological sites by providing access to localities and information.
Tonga's move to establish relations with the USSR immediately followed Australia's refusal to finance the modernisation and expansion of Fuaʻamotu International Airport, and was widely perceived in Australia as a means deployed by the Tongan government to pressure the West into increasing its aid to Tonga.
Sukanaivalu Ivakuva Hufanga, known as Suka Hufanga (born Houma, 18 June 1982), is a Tongan rugby union footballer.
The reverse designs were a giant tortoise on the 1 and 2 seniti, wheat sheaves and a stylized depiction of the constellation Crux on the 5 and 10 seniti, and the Royal Tongan coat of arms on the higher denominations.
In addition to English, assistance can usually be provided in the following languages: Chinese, French, Spanish, Tongan, and Vietnamese.
It is held by Nikotimasi Fatafehi Laufilitonga Kakau Vaha'i, who is one of the Members of the Tongan Legislative Assembly for the Nobles.
Luatangi Vatuvei (born 1977), Tongan-born Japanese rugby union player
He was one of six Tongan wrestlers recruited by the Asahiyama stable.