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  • Wednesday 24 September 2014 6:46pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Free Wesleyan Church FWC schools in Tongatapu except Queen Salote College held a combined Bazaar Day on Wednesday, September 24 in Nuku'alofa.
  • Tuesday 23 September 2014 10:04pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : More than 50,000 people have registered, including more than 8000 newly registered voters to vote in Tonga's upcoming General Election on November 27.
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  • Tuesday 23 September 2014 9:50pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand, Tony Abbott and John Key, have been slammed for deciding not to attend the UN climate summit in New York tomorrow September 23.
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  • Tuesday 23 September 2014 9:48pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano will be attending the 13th Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting to be held this week in New York city, alongisde the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
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  • Tuesday 23 September 2014 4:56pm


    Australia
    : Australia's increased Aid-for-Trade focus is the same wine in different bottles. Aid-for-Trade, and its counterpart PACER-Plus, are really about ensuring that Pacific markets are open to Australian exports and securing Pacific engagement with the global economy on terms that disproportionately benefit the regions big brothers. - Adam Wolfenden.
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  • Monday 22 September 2014 4:27pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tongan ex-NFL player Ma'ake Kemoe'atu (35) has donated one of his kidneys to his ailing brother Chris Kemoe’atu (31) who is also a former NFL player. The act of brotherly love has won the admiration of many.
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  • Monday 22 September 2014 2:00pm


    Auckland, New Zealand
    : Mosese Laumanu Uele (48) was sentenced last week to five years and five months in prison for the importation of pseudo ephedrine, the largest shipment of the illicit drug into New Zealand ever discovered.
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  • Sunday 21 September 2014 1:24pm


    Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    : Bainimarama is still a Dictator. He came to power in a coup de dat'. People's lives were lost in the coup de dat' that Bainimarama led, and Fiji is still labeled a "human rights" violator by the UN. – Sione A. Mokofisi.
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  • Sunday 21 September 2014 1:16pm


    'Aositelelia
    : Talu e tu’u e Pule’anga Fakatu’i ‘o Tongá mo e ‘ikai ha ofiofia e kovi ‘a e Pule’anga Tongá ki he kovi ne fai ‘e he Pule’anga Pilitaniá ki he kakai ‘o 'Initiá pe ko hono ngaohi kovi’i ‘e he kau hinehina o 'Amelika 'a e kau ‘uli’ulii, ka na’e uki ‘e Mahatma Gandhi ‘a e laui miliona hono kakaí ke nau fakafepaki melino pea uki 'e Luther King 'a e fakafepaki melino pea na’e ola lelei ‘enau feingá. - Tevita Vaikona mo Senituli Penitani.
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  • Friday 19 September 2014 10:55pm
    Blue Marlin


    Neiafu, Vava'u
    : A monster Blue Marlin weighing 268.5 kg caught in Vava‘u today, landed Denise Knutson a new Tongan record. Denise and her husband Ross were fishing on their boat Escapade NZ.
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  • Friday 19 September 2014 10:36pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A new book called Sandalwood Blood, a historical fiction written by Sam Lala, was launched by Princess Pilolevu at the Tungi Colonnade square in Nuku'alofa last night, 18 September.
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  • Friday 19 September 2014 6:18pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William and his brother Prince Harry have a launched a search to find and reward “exceptional young people” from commonwealth countries including Tonga.
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  • Friday 19 September 2014 5:40pm


    Auckland, New Zealand
    : A second edition of the ‘Fakahalafononga' handbook by Malakai Koloamatangi will be launched on New Zealand's Election Day in Auckland on Saturday, September 20.
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  • Friday 19 September 2014 5:29pm
    Car crash at Fatai


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 45-year-old woman who crashed her vehicle in Fatai on September 16 has been ordered to pay for damage to a power pole, which left over 700 customers in five villages on the Eastern District without power for over three hours.
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  • Friday 19 September 2014 5:03pm


    Apia, Samoa
    : Tonga's Taufatahi women's outrigger team made the finals of the Sprint event in the Alo Paopao Outrigging Competition in Samoa this week, 15-20 September, but the Marathon proved more challenging for the novice team.
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  • Thursday 18 September 2014 10:18pm
    Currency


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Tongan currency (Pa’anga) has shown a continuing decline against the New Zealand and Australian dollars over the last 15 years, and the pa'anga is, arguably, in its worst year ever against its major trading partners.
  • Thursday 18 September 2014 9:33pm


    Suva, Fiji
    : Fiji’s interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama and his Fiji First Party has a convincing lead of more than 60 percent of the total votes in the provisional results announced at 1:00pm this afternoon.
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  • Thursday 18 September 2014 9:29pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 70-year-old taxi driver is in hospital with head injuries, while a 60-year-old Japanese man was flown to Australia today for treatment, following a road accident in Vaini, on Wednesday September 17.
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  • Thursday 18 September 2014 9:24pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : While the wholesale and retail prices for Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Tongatapu dropped for September to December 2014, the prices have slightly increased in Vava'u from September 16.
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  • Thursday 18 September 2014 3:51pm


    Lautoka, Fiji
    : Bainimarama has steam rolled one and all to an emphatic victory and a win, which may go down in history not to be beaten for another century; further putting closure and totally eclipsing any notion and thoughts of him as a dictator, military ruler or an unelected coup leader. - Dr Sushil K Sharma.
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