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  • Thursday 14 January 2010 2:55pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga's official foreign reserves for December 2009 reached $160.4 million, which was half a million pa'anga more than the November figure of $159.9 million.
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    Thursday 14 January 2010 2:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga's Prime Minister Hon Dr Feleti Sevele will give evidence on February 12 at the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika in Nuku'alofa.
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  • Thursday 14 January 2010 12:14pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Long queues of drivers are waiting at Tonga's Ministry of Transport today in Nuku'alofa to get their new driver's licence cards for 2010 that are being issued under a computerised system launched by the Ministry of Transport in Nuku'alofa on January 12.
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  • Monday 11 January 2010 7:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The New Year brought wedding bells for two happy couples Lord Fielakepa and Malia; as well as Hon Kalaniuvalu and Ma'asi who married in Nuku'alofa last week.
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  • Monday 11 January 2010 7:39pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tongan-born New Zealand rapper, Devolo, and Samoan artist Mareko this afternoon surprised school children in Nuku'alofa by giving away free notebooks and pens.
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  • Sunday 10 January 2010 2:35pm


    Geneva, Switzerland
    : The United Nations Working Group on the use of mercenaries calls on the United States and the Iraqi Governments to cooperate to ensure that the Nissour Square incident is fully remedied and, in relation to the crimes that may have been committed, those responsible fully held accountable as appropriate.
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  • Sunday 10 January 2010 1:45pm


    Pagopago, American Samoa
    : 'Oku 'ikai ke fakapapau'i mai 'e he Fa'ahi Fakapolitikale ko e Temokalati (Democracy) 'oku ne lava 'o solova 'a e palopalema mo e to nounou kotoa 'a ha Fonua. Ko e fa'ahi Politikale Fakalangi pe 'i Hevani tene lava. Ko e tefito'i fakakaukau 'oku taukave'i 'e he Temokalati ia ko 'ene malava ke fakamalohi'i ha Pule'anga mo hono kau taki kuo fili ke nau ha'isia ki honau fatongia ki he kakai 'o e fonua.
  • Friday 8 January 2010 4:48pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Pursuing a dream to develop a private space port in Tonga, a couple of space entrepreneurs have the blessing of Tonga's king to build a small rocket launch site on the king's estate on the southern tip of 'Eua this year, with the aim of launching a rocket before the end of 2010.
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  • Wednesday 6 January 2010 8:03pm


    Suva Fiji
    : The Public Emergency Regulation will be lifted in Fiji as soon as the new Media Decree is implemented.
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  • Wednesday 6 January 2010 6:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Tongan government has decided to take over the preparation of a national team for the 2011 World Cup. Tonga's Minister of Finance, Hon. Afu'alo Matoto has been allocated as the Minister responsible for the restructuring of the Tonga Rugby Union.
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  • Wednesday 6 January 2010 2:31pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tertiary education has been given a boost this year with the Tonga government approving a grant of $1 million pa'anga for eight non-government technical institutions for the 2010 school year.
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  • Saturday 2 January 2010 3:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Mother of six 'Emeline Taufa (29) of Hofoa, made a lucky U-turn on December 30 when she decided to head back to town and do some more shopping - just to get a ticket in the Molisi Tonga Supermarket Christmas Bonanza before it closed the same day.
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  • Friday 1 January 2010 10:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The first baby to be born in Tongatapu in 2010 at the start of a new decade has a very long name, which remembers his father who is away serving in the Solomons with the RAMSI mission.
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  • Friday 1 January 2010 3:40pm


    UK
    : Certainly we never entertained the idea that democracy can come from the barrel of a gun, as in Iraq, or Afghanistan. Nor can the function of casting and counting votes alone be considered, without a similar weighting for free speech and media freedom, an impartial justice system, and the absence of public corruption, as serious evidence of democracy.
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  • Friday 1 January 2010 6:29am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : 'Oku lahilahi 'a e ilifia tevolo he teuteu liliu fakapolitikale ko'eni 'oku 'ai ke fakahoko 'i Tonga ni. 'Oku lahi mo e ngaahi fakakaukau faka'ofo'ofa ke fili ha kakai 'oku poto mo lelei ke nau hoko ko ha ngaahi taki lelei, ka 'oku 'ikai ko e me'a ia 'oku fa'ahoko 'i he taimi lahi 'i he founga temokalati.
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  • Friday 1 January 2010 12:12am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : On New Year's Eve in a land where time begins, Tongans are welcoming in 2010 quietly. As midnight approaches there's a brass band playing a hymn somewhere nearby in the capital, with a sombre tone that sounds more like a funeral dirge. But as the New Year rolls in, church bells start ringing, the crackers make a lively statement for a few minutes and the band picks up the beat - a little. - By Mary Lyn Fonua

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