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  • Monday 27 November 2006 6:39am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : What we have seen was reminding me of the Holocaust, just as Nazis did to the Jews, 'ko e loto ‘oku kovi' A biblical country thought that everything on the media is like reading a bible, everything is '“true'. Then I wonder how come some of us take advantage of the easy brain wash people while you step aside and eat candy! - ‘Asipeli Mafi
  • Monday 27 November 2006 6:24am


    Australia
    : Na'e mahino mo'oni he ngaahi to'onga fakamoveuveu ne fakahoko ko e ngaue'aki eni 'e he kakai honau mafai ma'ae kakai 'o hange koia 'oku fa'a lea 'aki 'e he kau taki 'o e feinga liliu (the power of the people for the people). Me'apango pe, he ne tau ngaue'aki hotau mafai ke faka'auha ai pe kitautolu kakai e fonua. He na'e ma'u 'etau ngaue ki mu'a ka 'i he 'aho ni kuo 'ikai. Na'e mo'ui 'etau fanau ka ko e 'aho ni kuo nau mole meiate kitautolu, koe'uhi pe ko 'etau ngauehala'aki hotau mafai 'o 'ikai ke fai aki ha me'a ke tau fakalakalaka faka'ikonomika ai ka ko e fai e ngaue ia ke tau to e foki ai pe Tonga 'o tu'utamaki. - Jan
  • Sunday 26 November 2006 6:04am


    San Francisco,California, USA
    : For more than a decade, I have listened to the propaganda of Mr. Akilisi Pohiva, and rightly voiced my support toward his cause amongst my peers. In the months leading to the general strikes by the civil servants, and following, the message to be received from Mr. Akilisi Pohiva was of hatred and violence; always promoting and planting the seeds for a revolution and anarchy. - Lochlein Sekona
  • Saturday 25 November 2006 6:51pm


    Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A.
    : Double-talking gives comfort to these terrorists who took the law into their own hands: violating people...’s freedom, violating their right to live in peace without fear, to enjoy their human rights of 'dignity', and the democratic right to own properties. - Sione Mokofisia
  • Saturday 25 November 2006 6:15pm


    Canberra, Australia
    : Kuo hoko ‘o tu’u he hisitolia ‘a e ’ohofi mo e taa’i fakasino ‘e he kau Taki Feinga Liukava Fakatemokalati mo ‘enau kau poupou ‘a e kau taki ‘o e Pule’anga mo e kakai ne ‘ikai ke nau tui tatau mo kinautolu, pea to e hoko ‘o lavenoa ai ‘a e totonu e taka nofo he ngaue ‘a e taka tu’u, ka e to e fakamamahi ange ‘a e si’i mole ‘a e ‘u mo’ui ‘o ‘etau fanau he vela mofia. - Siosiua Tofua‘ipangai
  • Saturday 25 November 2006 5:08pm


    Hawaii
    : Please do not lose sight of those who orchestrated and put in motion the rapid decline of your economy. Yes, the Crown Prince and family are right in the middle of this mess, but a closer look at this situation is prudent. - Myron Wilson
  • Saturday 25 November 2006 4:49pm


    London, UK
    : I remember reading somewhere that Akilisi Pohiva once said that the current King of Tonga is out of touch with his people. However, recently, when HM King George Tupou V completed his tour of the Tonga islands, his trip was hailed a great success due to his approachable manner by all who saw and met him. Could it be that Akilisi and his fellow People's Representatives are in fact the ones who are out of touch with the people of Tonga? - Ilanu Finau
  • Friday 24 November 2006 7:43pm


    Australia
    : Hufanga atu he ngaahi talamalu 'o e fonua na'e tuku 'e he 'Uluaki Fa ki Langi, kae fakaa'u atu ki Tonga'eiki 'emau loto mafana & poupou lahi faufaua ki he sipinga kuo taa 'e he Tama Tu'ipelehake he tapuni 'o e Falealea 'o e 2006. Tangane! pea tuha pe mo e feitu'una! 'Oku 'i ai nai ha kete [tapu mo hou'eiki] 'o e kau fakafofonga kehe mo e hou'eiki falelalea ke fakahaa'i ki he kau Temoo 'oku fulikivanu pea 'oku papeliane 'enau founga taki. - Sisilia Tupou-Thomas
  • Friday 24 November 2006 6:58pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Governor of the National Reserve Bank of Tonga Joyce Mafi announced that as of today, November 23, all travellers departing the Kingdom of Tonga are allowed to take out of the country local and foreign currency notes, of not more than TOP$10,000, or its equivalent.
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  • Friday 24 November 2006 6:51pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Peau Vava'u Airways has suspended its domestic air service indefinitely, Tonga's Minister of Transport, Hon. Paul Karalus, told representatives from the Nuku'alofa Tourism Industry this afternoon.
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  • Friday 24 November 2006 6:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Tonga Post Office has set up a mobile service at the Queen Salote Memorial Hall outside the Restricted Area of central Nuku'alofa.
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  • Friday 24 November 2006 3:53pm

    : A poetic tearful lamentation at what has befallen in our beautiful island. - By Fr. Dr. Mikaele Paunga
  • Friday 24 November 2006 3:43pm


    Sydney, Australlia
    : I would like to express my deep sorrow to hear that such events have taken place in our motherland, Tongatapu. An island and people, once upon a time, offered up to God by our King ‘Otua mo Tonga ko hoku tufi‘a. What the people haven't thought of is the precedent they have now set. They have unknowingly or if willingly, publicly opened up the land of Tonga to a world of violence and disobedience, outlaw and ruthlessness. - Amanda Kalauta
  • Friday 24 November 2006 11:00am


    Honolulu, Hawaii
    : After reading of the destruction and seeing the pictures of Nuku'’alofa I am shocked that a group of protesters could be allowed to run wild and do so much damage. Here is Hawaii we have a sovereignty movement that would like to restore the Kingdom. In Tonga you have a movement that wants more democracy. It appears that there are unsatisfied people on both sides of that issue. -Steve Oberg
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  • Friday 24 November 2006 10:49am


    San Francisco, USA
    : Could the recent tragic events in Tonga have been avoided by its Parliament? I would like to think that "common sense" could and should have warned its educated members that there were eminent dangers looming by and urgent measures were needed to thwart them. I think that it's time for the leaders of the government to stop the games; the people are now smarter and fed up. - Siosaia Fatani
  • Friday 24 November 2006 10:30am


    Sydney, Australia
    : It is time for the people of Tonga to retire all of the People's Representatives. Nothing they have done in Parliament even for the past 20 years would make up for the damages they have instigated to the image of Tonga. The hate campaign conducted by the leading members of the Pro-Democracy movement on the ethnic business community has come to fruition and has made Tonga, and worse its people, as a racist country in the eyes of the international community. The multiplier effect of such destruction on the economy and the people of Tonga as a whole will be immense. - Inoke Fotu Huakau
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  • Thursday 23 November 2006 7:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga needs an estimated USD$200 million to reconstruct and redevelop its capital Nuku'alofa, HM King George Tupou V said this morning in a speech from the Throne to close the 2006 session of the Tonga Legislative Assembly.
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  • Thursday 23 November 2006 7:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Noble Tu'ipelehake today refused to attend the closure of the Tonga Legislative Assembly, and sat outside in protest against the People's Representatives who, he said, "have used terrorism as a political tool."
  • Thursday 23 November 2006 6:46pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga's business community, suffering an estimated $200-$300 million pa'anga worth of losses, are uncertain whether or not they will be covered by their insurance policies. By Mary Lyn Fonua.
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  • Thursday 23 November 2006 6:43pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : As of yesterday November 22, the Tonga Police had detained 16 more suspects in relation to the crimes committed on November 16, bringing the total number of detainees to 42.
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