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Sunday 16 August 2009 5:57am
Alaska, USA : Malo e tau mo e ngaue lahi hono tufaki mai e ngaahi ongoongo kemau lave 'inasi ai he ngaahi tuliki 'oku mau fokoutua ai. Tuku pe mu'a e ki'i faingamalie ko'eni' ke u vahevahe atu e ki'i fakakaukau ko'eni' 'o felave'i mo e kafo kuo hook ki he Ashika 'o kafo pea tauanga'a ai e Tonga kotoa pe he fo'i Kolope'. - Joshua Nehasi -
Saturday 15 August 2009 10:02pm
San Diego-California, USA : 'Oku toki mahino mamalie mai heni 'a e to'onga mo'ui 'oku tau mo'ua kotoa ai ko e 'ai'ai noa'ia 'o 'ai ai 'eni ki he mole 'o e mo'ui ha fu'u kakai tokolahi. Ko hono mo'oni 'oku fele 'a e ngaahi tafa'aki 'oku fu'u fiema'u ke fai sio ki ai, tokolahi kitautolu 'oku tau pehe loto pe Fefe nai kapau na'e? Fefe nai kapau na'e toe fakapotopotoange 'a e kau kumi vaka mahino mai ne fu'u ngaue mo 'ilo lahi ki ai 'a e minista Paul Karalus, ko e ha me'a 'oku toe kehe ai 'a e kumi vaka mo ha'o kumi me'alele. Sio ki he hisitolia 'o e vaka ne kumi, me'a ne ngaahi, fakafo'ou, ko e ha ngaahi me'a 'oku fiema'u ke fakalelei'i kimu'a pea toki fai hano fakakaukau'i pe'e 'aonga ke kumi fakatatau ki he tukunga 'oku 'iai 'ae vaka mo hoto ivi fakapa'anga. Pea pehe ai ke ongo'i 'eke kau tama ko 'ena na'a nau kau hono alea'i 'oe vaka he 'oku mole ha'amou pa'anga ai. - Lou 'Uhila -
Saturday 15 August 2009 10:00pm
Australia : My thoughts and prayers are with you, especially those in Ha'apai. - Anne Chambers
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Friday 14 August 2009 5:26pm
Fontana-California, USA : Tuku mu'a kihe motu'a tu'a ko kita ke fai atu ha ki'i fk-hoha'a tu'a fekau'aki pea mo e fk-tamaki na'e hoko ki he Pilinisesi Ashika 'i he potu tahi Ha'apai. Ko e ta 'oku ongo ki he loto 'o e tangata pea mo e fefine kotoa pe si'i 'otu Tonga. Ka e tautau tefito ki si'i ngaahi famili kuo huki tonu ai 'a e fk-tamaki kuo hoko. 'O mole ai ha mo'ui si'onau ngaahi famili he fk-tamaki ne hoko. - S.Taufa -
Friday 14 August 2009 4:35pm
Manila, Philippines : The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing assistance to the Pacific to help design and deliver renewable energy products to the region through a $3 million grant for the development of small pilot projects in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. Premium content -
Friday 14 August 2009 4:15pm
Fasi mo e Afi,Nuku'alofa,Tonga : Some time ago I did a test to see how many cars in Nuku'alofa actually do use their direction indicators properly. While traveling through town, every time I saw a car making a turn I watched whether it had its left or right flashing light properly on, both front and rear. The results were terrible. - Firitia Velt Premium content -
Friday 14 August 2009 3:34pm
London, UK : In response to the Secretary General's communication to the Interim Prime Minister of Fiji, Commodore Bainimarama, conveying the Concluding Statement of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) following its Extraordinary Meeting on 31 July 2009, the Interim Government of Fiji Islands invited a delegation from the Commonwealth to visit the country. Premium content -
Friday 14 August 2009 6:45am
San Francisco, USA : Although the sinking of the Princess Ashika was an accident, I still want to express the fact that this is one example of how the Government of Tonga fail to do what's in the best interests of its people. - Siosaia Fatani Premium content -
Friday 14 August 2009 6:45am
USA : This kind of tragedy should never have happened, with all due respect to the Tongan Govt., they should really get to the bottom of who is responsible, and please Matangitonga, can you organise a campaigns for the people of Tonga demanding a full independent commission to call in all party involved and create transparency showing the world that this tragic incident of M/V Ashika where 90+ Tongans were dead, should have an answer to and closure, and have constructive suggestions on how to correct the system so that it would not repeat itself again in Tonga. - M. T. Tuaileva Premium content -
Thursday 13 August 2009 10:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Operation Ashika this afternoon released 37 names, on the first confirmed list of passengers and crew missing following the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika on August 5, 2009. Premium content -
Thursday 13 August 2009 10:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The inter-island ferry, the MV Princess Ashika, sank in Tongan waters in the early hours of 6 August 2009. This tragic accident has touched us all and we are deeply saddened to hear that some 93 victims remain unaccounted for. May I express my deepest sympathy to the bereaved families. Premium content -
Thursday 13 August 2009 7:41pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A grieving father, Rev. Sione Taufa (63), was thankful today after he was allowed to see his daughter Vaefetu'u Mahe (22), whose body was the second and last to be recovered after the tragic sinking of the MV Princess Ashika on August 5. Premium content -
Thursday 13 August 2009 6:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Civil society leaders from around the South Pacific region met in Nuku'alofa on August 12-13 to try an ensure that the views of the Pacific's Civil Societies are heard in the 2009 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in November. Premium content -
Thursday 13 August 2009 6:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : On behalf of the Tonga Red Cross Society, Westpac Bank of Tonga, ANZ Bank, MBf Bank and the Tonga Development Bank are accepting donations from the public to assist those affected by this terrible tragedy. Premium content -
Wednesday 12 August 2009 6:28pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Devastated mother, 'Iunisi Latu (42) of Halaleva is mourning the loss of two daughters Lima Lei (nee 'Alimoni) and Mele 'Alimoni who are among the missing on the MV Princess Ashika sinking in Ha'apai on August 5. Premium content -
Wednesday 12 August 2009 5:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An underwater search team has this morning, August 12, located what appears to be the sunken vessel Princess Ashika, lying upright in 110 metres of water, at the position indicated by the emergency beacon and final radio call, 11 nautical miles south southwest of Nomuka in the Ha'apai Group. Premium content -
Wednesday 12 August 2009 12:27pm
Auckland, New Zealand : For the first time, TVNZ's flagship Maori daily news programme Te Karere will be beamed out to the Pacific via satellite. This is part of an ongoing strategy to provide relevant and interesting content for TVNZ's Pacific Service broadcasters. Premium content -
Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:30am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The members of the Association of Bank's in Tonga recognise that businesses and individuals may be finding it difficult to manage their finances in what are very challenging economic times. Premium content -
Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:26am
Melbourne, Australia : Australia and New Zealand have offered to buy a new ferry for Tonga after last week's disaster in which 93 people are feared drowned. Premium content -
Wednesday 12 August 2009 9:47am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The gravity of the disaster of the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika and the huge loss of life is deeply mourned by all of us in Tonga and beyond, and especially by all families who lost loved ones. Premium content
