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Thursday 30 December 2004 10:35am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Generations from now, Tongans will repeat those sentiments, over and over again, as they commemorate 10 November 2004, as the date when HM King Taufaha'au Tupou IV, gave his people the ultimate gift - a role in the selection of some of his Cabinet Ministers, and thus acknowledging that they have an integral role to play in the democratic governance of the Kingdom of Tonga. By Lopeti Senituli
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Wednesday 29 December 2004 5:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan Rugby Union at the beginning of December 2004 started its campaign to qualify for the 2007 Rugby Union World Cup. In two days time, at the end of December, after the final of the Aoniu Tournament the TRU will pick a squad of 60 players for a four-day trial between 8-12 January 2005 when a 30-member development team will be picked to tour New Zealand and Australia. Premium content -
Wednesday 29 December 2004 11:30am
USA : Those of us that reside away from the Kingdom but try and stay in touch with our family/friends there have been so grateful since the Crown Prince has started his company and lowered prices considerably for telephone calls. They are still higher than anyplace else an overseas Tongan would be expected to call, but hopefully new phones will mean new volume and even lower prices. Congratulations to Tonfon, it doesn't seem that would have happened with the old monopoly. -
Tuesday 28 December 2004 6:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : I have noted the public outcry over the recent increase in the price of electricity and thought you might consider the following. In my opinion, considering the substantial forces arraigned against the non-oil producing countries by major global financial forces, any claims by certain unethical political candidates to provide, at a stroke, a panacea for the burden of high power costs are false. -Tupouto'a1 comment -
Thursday 23 December 2004 6:05pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Oceania Broadcasting Network, has been off the air since 6 p.m. on 22 December, and the General Manager of the OBN, Sangstar Saulala is claiming that his operation has been sabotaged. Premium content -
Wednesday 22 December 2004 3:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's beer drinkers were thirstier during 2004 than they were in 2003, drinking 1.2 million liters of Royal Beer, 400,000 litres more than last year's figure of 800,000 litres. Premium content -
Wednesday 22 December 2004 3:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Creditors of Tonga's Royal Tongan Airlines are claiming over $16.6 million pa'anga, but so far only $2.21 million has been recovered from the sale of the company's assets and other funds, according to the liquidator's second report. Premium content -
Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:15am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan courts in January will start placing offenders on probation under the care of the Ironman Ministry, according to Probation Officer, Hene Telefoni of the Ministry of Justice. Premium content -
Tuesday 21 December 2004 5:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The growth in the use of mobile telephones and the Internet in Tonga since 2002, after government allowed a second telephone company, Tonfön to enter the market and compete with the government's own telephone company, the Tonga Communications Corporation, has been unparalleled in the region. Premium content -
Tuesday 21 December 2004 3:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The safe return of the Tongan Royal Marines from Iraq on December 17 had to be the best Christmas present for Tonga this year. After Tonga stood up to be counted in the Coalition of the Willing, and sent soldiers to Iraq, the country can now be relieved that there was no casualties.1 comment Premium content -
Monday 20 December 2004 11:15am
Auckland, New Zealand : New Zealand and Australia have agreed to share information about travellers to their countries in order to strengthen the security of international air travel and improve advance passenger screening. Premium content -
Friday 17 December 2004 5:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Ever heard of the Undercover Coconut Clowns? No? Then you're not tuned in, because last night December 16 they were the hottest hip hoppers in town and won the Radio Tonga A3Z 2004 Hip Hop Dance Competition. After showing how to shake that thing, the UCC walked off the stage at the 'Atele Indoor Stadium with the cash prize of $1000 pa'anga. Premium content -
Thursday 16 December 2004 5:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two yacht charter companies in Vava'u, Sunsail and The Moorings are to merge and form the largest yacht charter fleet inTonga, to be called "The Moorings Tonga." Premium content -
Thursday 16 December 2004 4:54pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A young woman who found it easy to get money by lying to people will serve a three year prison sentence for false pretences. Premium content -
Wednesday 15 December 2004 11:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The former Ambassador Night Club complex was reopened on Saturday December 11, under new ownership. The President of Trans Pacific Ltd., David Prescott said that the opening of the bar on Saturday night was the first step in getting the complex back into operation. Premium content -
Wednesday 15 December 2004 10:45am
Canberra, Australia : Australians are being warned this Christmas not to travel to Indonesia unless it is essential, because of a continuing threat of terrorist attacks. Premium content -
Tuesday 14 December 2004 4:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : When Tonfon increases the capacity of its Global System for Mobile Communication from 5,000 to 50,000 subscribers before the end of this year, it will have the capacity to provide a mobile phone for one in every two people in Tonga. Premium content -
Tuesday 14 December 2004 3:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A platoon of the Royal Tongan Marines who have been serving in Iraq under the command of Lt. Col. Siamelie Latu will return to Tonga this week. Premium content -
Monday 13 December 2004 5:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Human Rights Day, December 10, was marked in Tonga with a march along Hala Taufa'ahau in central Nuku'alofa by non-government organisations, volunteer organisations, and Methodist Church youth groups from Samoa, Fiji and Tonga. Human Rights was the theme of the day and the march ended 16-days of human rights activities organised by various human rights protectors, the Legal Literacy group, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Tonga National Youth Congress, Tonga Human Rights and Pro Democracy Movement and the Iron Man Ministry. Premium content -
Monday 13 December 2004 4:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : When the world, and Tonga, commemorated Human Rights Day on December 10, the USA, the world's only Super Power, in leading its war against terrorism declared that weak and authoritarian states are a threat to the United States. Editor's Comment by Pesi Fonua. Premium content
