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Thursday 30 April 2009 12:35pm
Wellington, New Zealand : Well, well, well.... so Labour now thinks that Maori should have the right to seek customary title to the foreshore and seabed do they? That Maori should be allowed to argue their case before the Maori Land Court, with right of appeal to the High Court?
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Thursday 30 April 2009 12:14pm
Suva, Fiji : Fiji's military regime says it doesn't believe it will be thrown out of the Pacific Islands Forum, despite stern warmings from members. Premium content -
Thursday 30 April 2009 10:30am
Auckland, New Zealand : By chance I see it reported in the media this week that Tonga Power will spend 16 million dollars replacing rotten and leaning power poles in a network upgrading programme commencing from the "city". From where I sit, we will have spent these millions only to find that we will remain vulnerable to falling branches as well as hurricane borne damage and still wedded to non-renewable imported and expensive diesel, the price of which is expected to return to stratospheric levels once the world takes the crunch out of credit. In short, not a great deal better. -Sefita Hao'uli Premium content -
Thursday 30 April 2009 5:27am
: Kuo u fanongo 'i he ngaahi talanoa 'oku sasala 'o pehe 'oku fai 'a e fu'u fokotu'utu'u fo'ou 'o e kau Minisitaa pea kau ai pea mo e fokotu'u e Kovana fo'ou ki Vava'u. Ko e fokotu'utu'u foki ko 'eni ko e tupu pe mei hono faka'ataa 'e he Palemia 'a e ongo Minisitaa 'e ua ke na hiki atu ki muli 'o hoko ko e ongo 'Amipasitoa. - Piveni Piukala Premium content -
Wednesday 29 April 2009 11:14pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A three-days conference on "Security Sector Governance in the Pacific Region", was officially launched on April 28 by Tonga's Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Viliami Tangi. Premium content -
Wednesday 29 April 2009 2:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two new Government Ministers are expected to be appointed this week to the portfolios of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries and Forestry, and the Ministry of Information and Communication. Premium content -
Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:35pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Tau'uta Reds kicked off the 2009 IRB Pacific Cup with a victory against the Savaii Samoa in Apia over the weekend, while last year's reigning champion Tonga's Tautahi Gold was defeated by Upolu Samoa in Nuku'alofa. Premium content -
Wednesday 29 April 2009 12:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Vice-President of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries CPAFFCA, Madame Li-Xiaolin arrived in Tonga on Saturday night, April 25 on a two-days visit. Premium content -
Tuesday 28 April 2009 5:27am
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea : Papua New Guinea's leading daily newspaper is being subjected to a campaign of litigation and intimidation over reports of government corruption and mismanagement. Premium content -
Tuesday 28 April 2009 12:00am
Porirua, New Zealand : Tonga's National Volleyball Team struck gold at the World Qualifying Championship last week in Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 10:56pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Japanese Ambassador to Tonga, HE Mr Yasuo Takase, visited Vaiola Hospital on Friday April 24 and viewed the new hospital which was financed with $17.7 million from the Japanese Government. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 10:52pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tongan seasonal workers who are picking almonds in Robinvale, Victoria are earning good money and sending remittances back to their families in Tonga, reports Vava'u People's Representative 'Etuate Lavulavu. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 2:48pm
New York, USA : A US academic says a lawsuit launched by a PNG man against the New Yorker magazine for US$10 million over a portrayal of him and his tribesmen as "murderers, thieves and rapists" is empowering. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 12:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Over the next seven years Tonga Power Ltd will be spending $16.5 million pa'anga to improve the electricity distribution network in Tongatapu and the outer islands. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 11:23am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga High School's Under-18 Rugby Team will be representing Tonga at the Sanix World Rugby Youth Invitational Tournament 2009 in Japan from April 29 to May 7. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 5:30am
Auckland, New Zealand : Weaning us off petroleum will take some time and the replacement technology to make that possible will still be imported and not home-grown. However what is needed now is a new and home-grown attitude and actions to lessen our dependence on imported energy immediately. - Sefita A. Hao‘uli Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 5:04am
Apia, Samoa : Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is disappointed with recent comments made by American Samoa congressman Faleomavaega Eni Hunkin on the situation in Fiji. Premium content -
Monday 27 April 2009 5:00am
Morgan Hill-California, USA : FROM OUR ARCHIVES: I am raising attention to the ranking of the winners of inter college sports in Tonga - a more real analysis of the individual schools performance will be more sensible and respectable if you consider the schools that have boys or girls only.- Siosaia Mila -
Sunday 26 April 2009 8:15pm
Wellington, New Zealand : Jim Salinger, New Zealand's most prominent climate scientist, has been sacked by the state-owned National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) for talking to the media without permission, he said on Friday. Premium content -
Sunday 26 April 2009 7:00pm
Sydney, Australia : We know that the situation in Fiji is both complicated and sensitive because of its racial implication and the tendency of outsider to oversimplify the issues involved. But more alarmingly when a PM of a Pacific Is nation issued a tirade to demean the leader of another such as PM Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi of Samoa on Bainimarama as reported by the Samoan government's newspaper Savaii 2¼/09. - ‘Inoke Fotu Hu‘akau Premium content
