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Thursday 3 June 2004 4:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan national rugby coach Willy 'Ofahengaue said that on Friday he will announce the 'Ikale Tahi team to play Fiji on Saturday.
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Thursday 3 June 2004 4:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Fijian National Rugby Team arrived in Tonga this morning and their coach Wayne Pivac announced the Fijian team that will meet the 'Ikale Tahi on Saturday, June 5. Premium content -
Thursday 3 June 2004 2:30pm
Geneva, Switzerland : The first ever World Blood Donor Day will be celebrated globally on 14 June 2004. The day will kick-start a campaign called "Blood, a gift for life", which will be launched in Johannesburg, South Africa. Premium content -
Thursday 3 June 2004 12:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Education donors from around the world took part in a Joint Government of Tonga and Aid Donor Education Conference in Nuku'alofa from May 31- June 3. Premium content -
Wednesday 2 June 2004 3:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga might possibly have a new domestic air service operating by June 9, but nobody knows for sure how or when a new service can become operational. Premium content -
Wednesday 2 June 2004 2:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Masked men armed with rifles seized over $3,000 pa'anga last night in two armed hold-ups of gas stations on Tongatapu. Premium content -
Tuesday 1 June 2004 4:00pm
Federal Way-WA, USA : I saw a story in the May 31 edition of the Tacoma News Tribune. The story was headlined "Violent death, no justice for Peace Corps volunteer". The story written by TNT reporter Les Blumenthal revisits the stabbing death of Peace Corps Volunteer Deborah Gardner in 1976 in Tonga. The case has resurfaced in a book "American Taboo,'' written by Philip Weiss. - Mike Lane -
Tuesday 1 June 2004 1:44pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Prof. David V. Burley, with 17 students and an assistant from the Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, visiting Tonga in June destined for Vava'u to carry out some excavation work to ascertain the first settlement of Vava'u by ancient Tongans. Premium content -
Tuesday 1 June 2004 1:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : There was not a Member in the Tongan parliament who understood what the King of Tonga meant when he said in his speech from the Throne to open the Tongan Parliament on Thursday May 27, that a group of foreign investors would be arriving in Tonga this month to invest hundreds of millions of dollars. -From the House, Minute no. 1, Monday 31 May 2004. Premium content -
Thursday 27 May 2004 4:00pm
Sydney, Australia : I read an article in the Matangi Tonga Online of 27 May 2004, and was overwhelmed and proud to be Tongan but also because my mother's family comes from Hihifo-Pangai, Haapai when I read about the heroic efforts of the people of Pangai, going to the rescue the 450 passengers stranded at Hakauloa Reef on the ferry MV Pulupaki in the early hours of 26 May 2004. -Andrew Fifita J.P. -
Thursday 27 May 2004 2:59pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The people of Pangai who went out to sea in their boats in the dark and worked all night to rescue about 450 passengers from Tonga's grounded inter-island ferry MV Pulupaki yesterday deserve the highest praise, says one grateful passenger who finally reached her destination safely. Premium content -
Thursday 27 May 2004 11:45am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A group of Tongan People's Representatives are calling for the resignation of Tonga's Prime Minister, Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata, after boycotting the opening of the Tonga Legislative Assembly by the King this morning. Premium content -
Wednesday 26 May 2004 3:02pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : About 450 people were rescued in small boats, after Tonga's inter-island ferry ran aground on the Hakauloa reef in the early hours of Wednesday morning, about a mile outside the Pangai Harbour in the Ha'apai group. Premium content -
Monday 24 May 2004 3:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tongan Nobleman Hon. Fakafanua Kinikinilau Lelea 'a Fafine was laid to rest today at the Vakataumai burial ground at Ma'ufanga. Premium content -
Sunday 23 May 2004 10:07am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The night of mourning ('Apo) for the Nobleman Hon. Fakafanua was held at his residence, Siumafua'uta, Ma'ufanga on 23 May 2004. Premium content -
Friday 21 May 2004 4:08pm
Sydney, Australia : After reading the many comments and stories surrounding the collapse and closure of the Royal Tongan Airlines on 22 April 2004, I was both disappointed and saddened for both the loses in tourism and job opportunities the Kingdom vitally needs to stay afloat. - Andrew Fifita -
Friday 21 May 2004 2:58pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga has not received any international mail this week, while about forty bags of Tongan mail are still stranded in Air New Zealand's cargo office in Auckland, following the collapse of Royal Tongan Airlines, which used to share the mail load. Premium content -
Wednesday 19 May 2004 4:29pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A Judicial Review, challenging government over the amendment of Clause 7 of the Tongan Constitution in November 2003 will be heard by Chief Justice Gordon Ward at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on June 17-18. Premium content -
Wednesday 19 May 2004 3:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The remains of the late Hon. Fakafanua, a Tongan nobleman, who died in Hawaii on May 13, will be returned to Tonga early Friday May 21, for burial on Monday May 24. Premium content -
Wednesday 19 May 2004 3:22pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Royal Tongan Airlines ceased operation yesterday, closing its offices in Tonga, and about 100 people who were still employed in the airline's domestic service were told the bad news that they too have lost their jobs. Premium content
