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Thursday 15 December 2005 6:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Maxi Priest delighted young Tongans last evening at his Nuku‘alofa concert, filling up half of the Queen Salote Memorial Hall with hundreds of fans. By Linny Folau
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Wednesday 14 December 2005 5:38pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : If you are thinking about traveling to Tonga during this year's Christmas and New Year holidays you are in luck because there are flights practically every day provided by one or other of the four airlines serving Tonga: Air New Zealand, Pacific Blue, Air Pacific and Polynesian Airlines. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 December 2005 5:37pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Just over a half of the 3/186 primary school students who sat this year's High School Entrance Examination passed, confirmed the Examination Unit of the Tonga Ministry of Education today. Premium content -
Wednesday 14 December 2005 4:36pm
Auckland, New Zealand : I wish to extend my gratitude to the Hon. Minister of Finance for his courageous sharing with the public the economic outlook for Tonga and the serious situation that the government is facing, especially in rectifying the budget hole for the next financial year, more tendency to higher inflation and fighting the trade balance to ensure acceptable level of foreign reserve and local money supply. - Henry Alexanda Tonga Premium content -
Tuesday 13 December 2005 5:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Reggae superstar singer Maxi Priest arrived in Nuku'alofa on December 12 with his eight-members band gearing up for a one-night concert at Queen Salote Memorial Hall on the evening of December 14. Premium content -
Tuesday 13 December 2005 5:00pm
Auckland, New Zealand : I enjoyed Kaveinga e Folau's dissertation and his assessement of the current state of the world economy and Tonga's place in it. He posed a number of questions which have been left unanswered. My take from KeF's contribution is that those of us who are not yet digital natives in India or fabricating in China are left to dine on the more sumptious table of innovation and creativity. Agreed. But this is also the take of every trading bloc and developed country outside of these two industrial giants - and so we're going to be up against it in that respect. Premium content -
Monday 12 December 2005 8:45pm
Sydney, Australia : In 1977 I was having a drink at Club Tonga one afternoon when the doorman attempted to block this man...s entry into the club by informing him that he could not come in as he was not a member. This man I later learnt to be the one and only ... 'Akilisi Pohiva. Standing defiantly in front of the doorman, and making sure that everybody in the club would hear him, declared, "I have already put-in my membership application and that makes it legal for me to enter this here premises." Premium content -
Monday 12 December 2005 8:21pm
Auckland, New Zealand : I spent time in Tonga to harvest my squash plantation. For our deteriorating economy cannot be revived by just writing letters to the editor, but by boosting exports. Then I planted watermelon on the same plot, and Fa'one Hefa's farm tour composition for Tonga College is true: "Ngaahi fu'u fo'i meleni. 'Ikai ke fa'ahi!!" 'Oku lea'aki foki e Kolotau 'o Hule e!! - Sailosi Finau Premium content -
Monday 12 December 2005 8:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tonga Government's public service will close down next week, on December 22 at 4:30 pm for the beginning of their Christmas and New Year holidays. Premium content -
Sunday 11 December 2005 8:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Such a grim picture of the Tongan economy is forecast over the next 18 months that Tonga's Minister of Finance has come out to warn the public of the dire economic consequences of the massive salary increase given to public servants in the September strike settlement. By Mary Lyn Fonua Premium content -
Saturday 10 December 2005 9:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The monopoly of Peau Vava'u Airways in Tonga's domestic air service ended today, December 9, when a new operator Airlines Tonga Air Fiji Ltd was to be issued with a license to compete on Tonga's domestic routes until March next year. Premium content -
Thursday 8 December 2005 10:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Deanne Seini Fakalolo Kiana Puloka (18) of Lotoha...apai, made local history on Tuesday, when she became the dux of Tonga High school, Tonga's premier high school, for the second year in a row. Premium content -
Thursday 8 December 2005 5:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The long awaited handing over to the Palace Office of prosposed amendments to the Tongan Constitution and other acts, in a booklet prepared by the National Committee for Political Reform took place at 2pm today. Premium content -
Thursday 8 December 2005 3:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Lui Wolfgramm Anderson, the hooker of the victorious New Zealand Kiwi team that crushed the Australian Kangaroos 24-0 on November 26 in London and became the 2005 champion of the annual Rugby League Tri Nations competition between New Zealand, Australia and the UK, is visiting Tonga to reconnect with his Tongan heritage. Premium content -
Thursday 8 December 2005 11:37am
USA : As we get closer to the end of the school year, hope builds up as more students will soon become part of the Alumni Association or Ex-Student Association. No longer students, eh? - Tevita U. Langi Premium content -
Wednesday 7 December 2005 6:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : At first it was going to be December 5th, then it was the 6th, then it was the 7th, but now tomorrow, December 8 is to be the day when at 2pm 'Akilisi Pohiva and members of the National Committee for Political Reform will present their booklet, with proposed amendments to the Tongan Constitution and other acts, to the Private Secretary of the King at the Palace Office. By Pesi Fonua. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 December 2005 4:46pm
New York, USA : Two Tongan musicians, tenor Ta'u Pupu'a, and an instrumentalist Tommy Lee Fonua, are making a name for themselves with churchgoers in the big apple, New York City. Premium content -
Wednesday 7 December 2005 4:32pm
Auckland, New Zealand : It's official. Marching is the new national hobby. If the strolling-down-main-street variety can pull off three big ones in one day, marching is well ahead of soccer, netball, volleyball and you can hold on to your marbles! Cricket is so passe and rugby didn't do itself any favours by limping home with a sorry looking record against Italy and France last week. - Sefita Hao'uli -
Wednesday 7 December 2005 4:21pm
USA : Tonga's system of government is good, but the system by itself is insufficient to bring about continued order, prosperity, and progress. What is needed is a common foundation of a moral and cultural absolute to 'undergird' our political system. - Malini V. Tukutau -
Monday 5 December 2005 5:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Any hope held by Tongans or other Pacific Islanders that Australia was about to launch a "guest worker scheme", allowing unskilled labour to go and pick fruit in Australia, was put to rest at the end of November when the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer, made it clear that Australia was not going to entertain it. Premium content
