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Thursday 14 October 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's hope to resume exporting watermelon to New Zealand by the end of September was not realised, but there is a hope that the new fumigation facility would be eventually certified by New Zealand.
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Wednesday 22 September 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Kingdom of Tonga has given notice that it wishes to terminate the joint venture agreement supporting the weekly Air New Zealand service connecting Nuku'alofa and 'Apia with Los Angeles. The service will be suspended at the end of January 2011.
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Tuesday 14 September 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
As the harvesting season for sea cucumbers draws to a close on September 30, a total of 23 licenses have been issued to local operators who have exported to date up to 150 tonnes of dried beche de mers to Asian markets such as Hong Kong.
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Saturday 21 August 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The ownership of a research report on Tonga for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor has become a matter of contention between two groups of academic researchers from the Unitec Institute of Technology, New Zealand.
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Tuesday 10 August 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga expects to start exporting more vegetables to New Zealand in September, including chilli pepper and eggplants to be followed by fruits such as watermelon, pawpaw and mangoes in season.
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Wednesday 28 July 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The new four-storey Taumoepeau Building that is towering over central Nuku'alofa and expected to be opened in August is the first to rise out of the ashes of the riot of November 11 2006, that destroyed a large area of the central Nuku'alofa Business District.
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Thursday 1 July 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Faced with continuing drops in remittances and two years of negative growth, Tonga's financial planners have turned to aid donors to support the national budget for the new financial year 2010-11, in order to meet a current deficit of $12.1 million pa'anga, as well as multi-million pa'anga development budget needs.
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Thursday 24 June 2010
Abu Dhabi, UAE
On June 24, in Abu Dhabi, IRENA and the Kingdom of Tonga will hold an official Signing Ceremony of the IRENA Abu Dhabi Declaration on the Tonga Energy Road Map 2010-20. The ceremony is an important milestone in the successful, on-going partnership between IRENA and the Pacific Kingdom. That partnership has resulted in Tonga going from being almost 100% dependent on imported diesel for electrical generation, to having one of the most ambitious energy plans in the world.
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Wednesday 2 June 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Local business leaders gathered on Friday to take part in a mentor’s workshop as part of the Business Mentoring Programme which is being coordinated by the Tonga Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the New Zealand organisation, Business Mentors New Zealand.
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Monday 31 May 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The popular Billfish Bar and Restaurant on the Nuku'alofa waterfront celebrated its 15th birthday on May 4.
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Friday 21 May 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Licenses for the harvesting and the exporting of Bech-de-mers from Tonga have been issued to eleven operators so far, since the beginning of the Bech-de-mers harvesting season on April 1.
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Monday 10 May 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A house fire caused by a candle razed a home situated beside the Janfull International Dateline Hotel at around 4:00 am this morning, March 10. Fortunately, the occupants including a mother and her one-year-old baby escaped without injuries.
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Saturday 8 May 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Nuku'alofa's Fire Services saved the lower deck of the Pacific Blue 18, after the fishing vessel's wheelhouse caught on fire on Friday morning, May 7 at Faua Wharf.
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Wednesday 21 April 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's official Foreign Reserves held by the National Reserve Bank of Tonga for March rose by $2 million pa'anga to $155.5 million due to an official grant from the Asian Development Bank.
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Thursday 8 April 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tongan government has reduced its expenditure by 11% because of a 28% shortfall in revenue collection during the current financial year, Tonga's Minister of Finance, Hon. Afu'alo Matoto told representatives of Tonga's Development Partners at the Fa'onelua Convention Centre this morning, March 8.
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Tuesday 6 April 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A call for tenders for a management contract for Tonga's new interim ferry, the Ajang Subuh, will be made tomorrow by the Ministry of Public Enterprise who expect the inter-island ferry to arrive from Malaysia on April 16.
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Saturday 20 March 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A derelict and partially completed hotel of the Pacific Investments Ltd at Sopu has been sold by the Westpac Bank of Tonga to Government for a mere $1 pa'anga.
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Wednesday 17 March 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Foreign Reserves fell by $7.3 million to $153.5 million in February, mainly due to a large official capital outflow that was used for the repayment of foreign currency loans.
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Friday 19 February 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Westpac today encouraged customers impacted by Cyclone Rene to contact their local branch to discuss ways the bank can support them.
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Thursday 4 February 2010
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The price of electricity will go up by 3.75 seniti to 86.89 seniti per kWh, starting this month, February 2010.
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