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Thursday 1 July 1999 3:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Royal School of Science launched in March 1998 is running at full capacity with 85 students. Captain Va‘inga Tone said, "there is a tight program, each student requires two hours on-line every day, and more people are ussing the on-line services for research." From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999.
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Thursday 1 July 1999 2:00am
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : If Tonga goes ahead and adopts daylight savings this year from October to March, advancing its clock one hour ahead of everyone else in the region, it will be the first in the race to clock-in the Millennium. Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 2:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : John Koldowski of the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) made a luncheon presentation at the National Cultural Centre on August 20. PATA circulates marketing information to member organisations. From Matangi Tonga Magazine, Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 1:00am
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Free Trade, says Sioeli Matoto, the Deputy Secretary for the Ministry of Labour, Commerce, Trade and Industry, “sounds appealing, and sounds like a very good idea, but it is difficult to put into practice, because every country wants to protect their own interest.” Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 1:00am
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : ‘Aisake Tuiono, the former Chief Accountant of the Tonga Electric Power Board is now the head of two new companies, Global Import and Export, and Global Finance and Business Development. ‘Aisake resigned from the TEPB early this year to set up the companies in Nuku‘alofa. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 1:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Free Trade offers an advantage in theory, but in practice Tonga will be giving the advantage to the importers, warns a former secretary to Finance and former MP ‘Uhila Liava‘a. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 1:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Kingdom of Tonga is expected to become the 188th member of the United Nations in September, when its application for membership will be tabled at the United Nations General Assembly. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 1:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The whereabouts of three Chinese nationals, who were discovered hiding inside a container, when the Tausala Samoa arrived in Tauranga, New Zealand, on July 12, is now uncertain. Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 1:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The last Heilala Festival for this century, finished with the Miss Heilala Grand Ball on August 20, and the announcement of the Miss Heilala for 1999, Fonoti Taumoepeau. Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999. Premium content -
Thursday 1 July 1999 1:00am
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Royal Tongan Airlines awarded Certificates and Wings to its first group of trained Flight Attendants on August 21 at the Tonga National Centre. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 3, July 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 12:04pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : FROM OUR ARCHIVES: A ceremony called Ha‘amo followed the burial of HRH Prince Fatafehi Tu'ipelehake, and continued from April 17 until May 1, 1999. Every day a different Ha‘a or clan presented food and wreaths to the Royal Family at the Palace and to various groups of people and families who were directly involved with the funeral. Photos by Pesi Fonua. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 12:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 70 year-old wooden store of Bhagwan and Sons Ltd. traders on Hala Taufa‘ahau in central Nuku‘alofa has been demolished, and in its place a $500,000 a two storey building is being constructed. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 12:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The funeral procession of HRH Prince Fatafehi Tu‘ipelehake from the Palace to Mala‘ekula, on April 17. photos by Pesi Fonua. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 11:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : ‘Akilisi Pohiva has been a controversial political figure ever since he first entered Parliament in 1987, not only because of his indifference to the rules and procedures of the House, but also for his outspoken and controversial comments about Cabinet ministers, the King and members of the Royal family. They are comments that have cost him tens of thousands of pa‘anga in lawyers’ fees and court awards for the defamed over the last decade. Interview and photos by Pesi Fonua. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 11:00am
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : The Tonga Pro-Democracy Movement has changed its name. In the process of changing its image from that of a political organisation to become a Non-Government Organisation, it is now called the Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 11:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Published in April, was a new history book, 'Queen Sālote of Tonga, The Story of an Era 1900-1965'. This 424 pages hard covered volume is the work of Dr Elizabeth Wood-Ellem, published by the University of Auckland Press. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 11:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Kuo to ‘a e Pulonga ‘e Tonga–"a darkness has fallen over Tonga", was how matapules (talking chiefs) described the death of Prince Fatafehi Tu‘ipelehake K.B.E. (77) in Auckland, New Zealand on April 10. Within hours of the Prime Baron Vaea’s official announcement of the State Funeral on Radio Tonga on April 11, people throughout Tonga wore black clothes and funeral mats or ta‘ovala. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 11:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Putting everything on the line, “our money, my jewellery and even our lives,” was how Tricia Emberson, the Managing Director of ‘Alatini Fisheries described the commitment she and her partner, Bill Holden, had made toward the development of their company during the past ten years. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 10:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Thanks to what Rugby officials describe as a miracle, Tonga has finally qualified to participate in the 1999 Rugby World Cup after defeating South Korea 82–15 in Seoul on May 4. Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content -
Monday 31 May 1999 10:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The future is uncertain for Tonga’s Fuakavenga, and Samoa’s Forum Samoa, the two container ships that make regular visits to Nuku‘alofa. Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 14, no. 2, May 1999. Premium content
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