Tonga's ailing Prime Minister Hon. 'Akilisi Pohiva (78) has a paramount concern: the succession of his leadership. He now faces opposition to the government he has headed since the elections of November 2014. There is rivalry and turmoil. He feels challenged. The reform is not what he imagined. He warns of clashes. Matangi Tonga Editor, Pesi Fonua talks to the Prime Minister about why, nine years after the reform, the PM remains at odds with the new system that parliament voted for in 2009.
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Saturday 31 August 2019
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Thursday 25 February 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
HSH Prince Tu’ipelehake delivered the King's speech in a very short closing of the Tonga’s Legislative Assembly's 2015-16 session, this morning at Parliament House in Nuku'alofa. Photos by Linny Folau.
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Friday 20 June 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The late Prince Tu'ipelehake was put to rest this morning at Mala'e 'Atuli ki Langi, at his estate in Pelehake, Tongatapu. Photos by Pesi Fonua and Caroline Manu.
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Monday 16 June 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Prince Tu'ipelehake (56) passed away at Vaiola Hospital, Saturday 14 June at 5.25 pm.
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Tuesday 10 December 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Over 400 graduates from three Government Post-Secondary Education Institutes received their diplomas and certificates from Prince Tu’ipelehake on 10 December. Photos by Linny Folau.
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Tuesday 4 June 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Government payouts amounting to over $3 million pa'anga to three royal estate holders are being challenged by Sione Taione, a People's Representative to the Tonga Legislative Assembly, who filed an application with the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on 29 May for a Judicial Review.
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Thursday 7 March 2013
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's King Tupou VI said today from Auckland that he hoped Government and Parliament would continue to work together to revive the Tongan economy, which has been badly affected by the global financial crisis. He outlined projects that were being undertaken by government in the hope of energizing economic development in his speech that was read out by Prince Tu'ipelehake, accompanied by Prince Tungi and Lord Luani for the opening of a special session of the Tonga Legislative Assembly today.
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Friday 15 June 2007
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Redwood City, California,
A teenage driver, Edith Delgado was convicted of three misdemeanor counts of vehicular manslaughter by a San Mateo County jury on Thursday. She will be sentenced on August 24.
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Tuesday 18 July 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The sudden death of Prince Tu'ipelehake was a great loss to Tonga's political reform movement. Editor's Comment, by Pesi Fonua.
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Friday 14 July 2006
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Sydney, Australia
I, like all Tongans, feel immense sadness at the untimely deaths of HRH Prince Tu'ipelehake and Princess Kaimana of Tonga. Thank you your Royal Highnesses for all that you have done for our great country. 'Amelia Pafusi Tatola Schedlich,
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Monday 10 July 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Despite the untimely death last week of Prince Tu'ipelehake, the chairman of the National Committee for Political Reform (NCPR), the Talanoa meetings that were scheduled for the USA are to continue.
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Saturday 8 July 2006
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Redwood City, California
The teenage driver charged with the killing of two members of the Tongan royal family and their driver after slamming into their car pleaded not guilty on Friday, July 7 (US time) to vehicular manslaughter, according to AP news service.
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Friday 2 June 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Political reforms in Tonga are inevitable, the Princess Regent, HRH Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita, told the opening of parliament yesterday, but reforms must be managed properly to avoid disastrous consequences, she warned.
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Thursday 25 May 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The findings of Tonga's National Committee for Political Reform will go to King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV before August 30, and then be presented to parliament for debate a month later, the NCPR announced today.
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Wednesday 10 May 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The opening of the Tongan Legislative Assembly on June 1 will not stop the work of the National Committee for Political Reform, according to the NCPR Chairman, Prince Tu'ipelehake.
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Monday 1 May 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Many Tongans, including some in the media, do not fully understand the purpose and the objectives of National Committee for Political Reform (NCPR).
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Wednesday 23 November 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Prince Tu'ipelehake, who has been labeled as the Prince of the Reform Movement, believes that the new National Committee for Reform, established by parliament and expected to meet for the first time before Christmas 2005, will bring about the peaceful political reform that Tonga wants. Interview with Prince Tu'ipelehake, by Pesi Fonua on 11 November 2005.
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Wednesday 17 August 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Prime Minister, Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata asked for the Minister of Justice, Hon. Siaosi 'Aho, to tell the House about efforts that had been made to end the strike, and how each time it was turned down by the strikers, who had even refused to meet and discuss their grievances with the government delegation. He referred to the two who were standing (Prince Tu'ipelehake and 'Akilisi Pohiva) and said they were stirring up trouble in the land. From the House. Tonga Legislative Assembly, Minute No. 23, Monday August 15, 2005.
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Wednesday 16 March 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's 33 nobles this morning, March 16, elected their nine representatives to the Tongan parliament. For Tongatapu the three incumbent members, noblemen, Vaha'i, Tu'ivakano and Fohe were re-elected. Vaha'i with 10 votes, Tu'ivakano with 8 and Fohe with 7.
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Monday 18 October 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Motion by Prince Tu'ipelehake for government to form a committee to draft a Bill making it possible for Tonga to have a referendum. From the House, Minute No. 59, Tuesday 12 October 2004.
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