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Monday 14 September 2009 6:18pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Crown has yet to decide if it should apply to re-open the criminal sedition case against four People's Representatives of 2006 who were acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy by the Appeal Court of Tonga on Wednesday, September 9.
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Sunday 13 September 2009 5:32pm
Canberra, Australia : The first group of Tongan seasonal workers employed under the Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (PSWPS) departed to Tonga on Thursday, 10 September 2009 after the completion of seven (7) months employment at horticultural farms in Australia namely Victoria and Queensland. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 11:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Five People's Representatives in the Tongan parliament in 2006 are acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy because of inadequate evidence by the Crown, in a decision released by Tonga's Appeal Court on Wednesday. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 7:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's political reform is precisely a reforming of the composition of the parliament, Dr Malakai Koloamatangi, a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, told members of the Tongan media on Wednesday, September 9.1 comment Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 6:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Katei Taufa (31), who stabbed his wife to death in Vaini on February 21, was sentenced to life imprisonment today at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 6:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's newest media company, BroadCom-TMN Group launched a new FM 88.1 radio station and television production unit on Saturday, September 5 at Ngele'ia. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 4:50pm
Sydney, Australia : The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes a decision by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to conduct a war crimes investigation into the murder of five Australian-based journalists, known as the Balibo Five, during Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 10:17am
Suva, Fiji : Brad Pitt drinks it, Barack Obama has been photographed with it and Paris Hilton sips it through a straw to save her lipstick. Premium content -
Thursday 10 September 2009 1:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A four-year-old Popua boy died on Tuesday, from sever injuries inflicted as a result of domestic violence, and a man charged with his murder will appear in court next week. Premium content -
Wednesday 9 September 2009 6:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A man accused of murdering 22-year-old mother of three, Fononga Taufa, later confessed to police that he stabbed his wife in a drunken rage at her parents' Vaini home on February 21, the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court was told today. Premium content -
Wednesday 9 September 2009 4:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An increasing number of crimes commited in Tongatapu last week included a, manslaughter, two rapes and a suicide, along with more cases of assault and housebreaking according to the Tonga Police. Premium content -
Wednesday 9 September 2009 7:57am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan Parliament is making itself irrelevant to the political reform process that it set for 2010, by failing to agree on the fundamentals for a new system of government for Tonga, and at the same time has left itself out of the decision-making process of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission by not meeting the July 6 deadline for submissions. Editor's Comment. Premium content -
Tuesday 8 September 2009 2:24pm
Prescott Valley, Arizona,USA : Ko e 'uhinga 'eku fakafetu'utaki atu tupu'anga mei hoku tuonga'ane ko Pelenato Pome'e mei Makave Vava'u, ko e pasese 'o e MV Princess Ashika na'e lavea mei he ngoto 'a e vaka. Ko e tu'u he taimini kia Pelenato 'oku vaeua 'e ne mo'ui mo kei faingata'a'ia tupu mei hono lavea mei he ngoto 'a e vaka. 'Oku ou lau hifo 'i he news ko'eni 'i he Matangi Tonga online fekau'aki mo e fu'u pa'anga lau miliona 'oku ma'u 'e he Pule'anga Tonga ko e 'ofa mei muli mo e kakai kehe kehe pe ke tokoni'i 'a e kau victims mo honau ngaahi famili. -
Tuesday 8 September 2009 6:03am
Auckland, New Zealand : Fiji's suspension from the Commonwealth on September 1 was a dead certainty. Its earlier suspension from the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum didn't deter it and it would have been naïve to think that the threat of this week's - it's third from the Commonwealth since independence - would make the Fijian administration change its mind. By Dev Nadkarni Premium content -
Tuesday 8 September 2009 5:50am
London, UK : Sir paul Reeves, Special Representative of Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, will arrive in Fiji on 8 September for a two-day visit. Premium content -
Tuesday 8 September 2009 5:35am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Prime Minister, Dr. Feleti Vaka'uta Sevele, will attend a special function on Wednesday, 9 September, in Wellington, New Zealand, marking the important milestone of "Two Years To Go" until the host, New Zealand, meets Tonga in the opening match of the Rugby World Cup 2011. Premium content -
Monday 7 September 2009 11:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Many bereaved families from the Ashika ferry disaster have expressed a need for assistance in financing the education of their children, said Sione Tupouniua, an American Tongan, who completed a two-week fact-finding mission to Tonga at the weekend. Premium content -
Monday 7 September 2009 10:43pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The retiring Commander of the United States Pacific Command in Hawaii, Admiral Timothy J. Keating, dropped into to Tonga for lunch, arriving in a private aircraft on Friday, September 4, on a three-hour farewell visit. Premium content -
Monday 7 September 2009 9:41pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Queen Salote College's annual bazaar held on Saturday September 5, attracted a crowd of shoppers eager to buy the quality handicrafts made by students. Premium content -
Sunday 6 September 2009 4:13pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The question is not whether Fiji's dictator Frank Bainimarama will fail or not, but rather when? Yes, when will he realise that he will never succeed in his false and conceited quest for a reformed Fiji?2 comments Premium content
