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  • Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm


    Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s export market for its treasured yams would increase if Tonga and its main trading partners New Zealand and Australia could agree on ways to eliminate fumigation for this product, say exporters in Nuku‘alofa. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003.
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  • Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm


    Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
    : Telecommunications managers in the Pacific are looking at how island communities can take advantage of new telephone and internet technologies. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003.
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  • Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:26am


    Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
    : A study of the level of corruption in Tonga is expected to be completed before the end of the year, and made public by March 2004. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003.
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  • Tuesday 30 December 2003 2:00am


    Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
    : Democratic reform will help to preserve the dignity of the King, and his links with his people, says Taimi ‘o Tonga publisher, Kalafi Moala. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003.
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  • Monday 29 December 2003 3:36pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Tongan Squash Exporters' Council is seeking a $6 million loan for the purpose of compensating squash growers who were hurt by low returns from their sale of squash to Japan this year.
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  • Monday 29 December 2003 3:20pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : It was a miserable grey Christmas for the residents of Popua and Fangaloto areas of eastern Nuku'alofa, when they woke up on Christmas morning in a choking cloud of smoke.
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  • Monday 29 December 2003 2:53pm


    Suva, Fiji
    : A Tongan national has been appointed as the Forum Representative for Forum Island Countries (FICs) to the World Trade Organisation based in Geneva.
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  • Monday 29 December 2003 12:19pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Two men were shot and wounded during a shooting incident at the western end of the Tuimatamoana Wharf, Nuku'alofa, in the early hours of Sunday December 21.
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  • Tuesday 23 December 2003 3:30pm


    Nuku'‘alofa, Tonga
    : Asked about the Australian government's reaction to Tonga's controversial new media laws, the Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer told a Press Conference in Nuku'alofa on December 17 that "We are not the regional policeman . . . the moral judge and jury for the region, it is not our job."
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  • Friday 19 December 2003 4:03pm


    Nuku'‘alofa, Tonga
    : The hundreds of Tongan school leavers who finish Form 5 every year with no prospects or getting a job, will in 2004 be given the chance to continue with their studies and learn a skill. Starting in February, the newly established 'Unuaki 'o Tonga Royal Institute (UTRI) will offer Form 5 level English graduates the opportunity to either study Foundation Level, Form 7, or to take a technical course at the Institute.
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  • Friday 19 December 2003 3:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga police officers returning to duty in the Solomons, were pictured at the Fua'amotu International Airport, Tonga on December 18.
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  • Thursday 18 December 2003 4:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in Tonga that Australia was uping its effort and making stronger or more forceful contributions in the Pacific.
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  • Thursday 18 December 2003 12:22pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The first marijuana case to be tried under Tonga's tough new Illicit Drugs Control Act was dismissed by Chief Justice Ward at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on December 8.
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  • Friday 12 December 2003 10:00am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tongans will be invited to submit their views to a multi-level New Zealand government inquiry into its relationship with Tonga.
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  • Thursday 11 December 2003 3:23pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Waiting for visas to New Zealand, the queue of people outside the New Zealand Immigration Service Offices, in Nuku'alofa, starts building up early in the morning during the countdown days to Christmas.
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  • Thursday 11 December 2003 3:05pm


    Nuku'‘alofa, Tonga
    : A Korean ship owner Daug Blk Kim and his Tongan captain, Vailele Taukitoku were acquitted by Chief Justice Gordon Ward at the Nuku'alofa Supreme court on December 9 for fishing in the Tonga waters without a Foreign Fishing Vessel Licence.
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  • Thursday 11 December 2003 12:23pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : An Australian woman, Mandy Millar, was ordered to serve a 14 day prison sentence in Tonga for contempt of court, during a custody battle over her four year old daughter.
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  • Wednesday 10 December 2003 3:38pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : British High Commissioner to Tonga, Mr Paul Nessling: “It is great to have a degree in molecular biology but out there, we are desperate for nurses, teachers, youth workers, social workers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, cooks, IT engineers and many others with skills.”
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  • Monday 1 December 2003 10:30am


    Nuku'‘alofa, Tonga
    : Drug trafficking, terrorism, and the spread of HIV aids are the latest menaces to worry Pacific leaders, says Sir Julius Chan, the former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. - Matangi Tonga, Vol. 18, No. 3
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  • Monday 1 December 2003 10:16am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Democratic reform will help to preserve the dignity of the King, and his links with his people, says Taimi 'o Tonga publisher, Kalafi Moala. - Matangi Tonga, Vol. 18, No. 3
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