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  • Friday 25 October 2013 3:59pm


    Seoul, South Korea
    : A more targeted and mutually accountable Regional Partnership that clearly sets out the specific areas of the Republic of Korea's assistance was agreed upon during a 2nd Korea-Pacific Islands Senior Officials Meeting held in Seoul this week.
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  • Thursday 24 October 2013 8:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga's parliament has rejected a Private Member's Bill that sought to change how Tongans elect a Prime Minister and proposing that a care-taker government run government when parliament closes at the end of the month, in preparation for the Parliamentary General Election in November next year. The bill presented by 'Aisake Eke's was rejected by the House this afternoon with a vote of 15-6. From the House, by Pesi Fonua.
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  • Thursday 24 October 2013 7:14pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : In sentencing Tafolosa Bloomfield, a former Miss Heilala, to three-years and four-months imprisonment in Hu‘atolitoli Prison today, a Tongan Supreme Court judge said that her deceit was audacious and her embezzlement case was by far the worst of its kind he had encountered in Tonga.
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  • Thursday 24 October 2013 12:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : 'Akilisi Pohiva, the People's Representative No. 1 for Tongatapu has been declared the recipient of the Defender of Democracy Award for 2013, by the Parliamentarians for Global Action PGA.
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  • Wednesday 23 October 2013 7:58pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 24-year-old man from Nukunuku died on Friday evening October 18 after he allegedly fell from a van in an accident in Nuku'alofa. Two other persons are in hospital for injuries sustained from separate road accidents.
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  • Wednesday 23 October 2013 7:39pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Forty-two top body builders including five women, from around the region have gathered in Tonga today for the 20th South Pacific/Oceania Bodybuilding Championships to take place this Friday 25 October at Queen Salote Memorial Hall.
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  • Wednesday 23 October 2013 7:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s King Tupou VI and Queen Nanasipau’u visited Bangkok, in Thailand, last week, where they met the Minister for Foreign Affairs to discuss closer bilateral relations.
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  • Tuesday 22 October 2013 8:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The first exploration of the Tonga Trench by a deep sea submersible vehicle to understand and document the environmental conditions and living species that exist in the second deepest point in the ocean was completed by Japanese researchers from October 7-20.
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  • Tuesday 22 October 2013 5:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Sky TV will broadcast the 2014 Winter Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympic Games to 14 Pacific Island countries including New Zealand and Tonga.
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  • Tuesday 22 October 2013 4:46pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : An agreement on Tonga's multi-million pa'anga loan from China is expected to be signed during a 2nd China-Pacific Island Countries Economic Development and Cooperation Forum on November 7-8 in Guangzhou.
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  • Tuesday 22 October 2013 4:33pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano will attend the Second PALM Ministerial Meeting in Tokyo on October 26-27, four-days after returning to Tonga following an extended visit to undergo medical treatment overseas.
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  • Monday 21 October 2013 11:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A Bill to dissolve government when parliament closes in a few days times, and a caretaker government to take over in preparation for the Parliamentary Election in November 2014, was introduced into the Tongan parliament this afternoon, 21 September. From the House, by Pesi Fonua.
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  • Monday 21 October 2013 9:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A five-year Tonga Police Development Program, jointly funded by Australia, New Zealand and Tonga from 2008 has been extended for another three years.
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  • Friday 18 October 2013 5:24pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Suspended Police Superintendent Lolesio Hausia was discharged on a common assault count by Magistrate Similoni Tu'akalau, at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court today, 18 October.
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  • Friday 18 October 2013 4:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Six Tongan artists are on a week-long cultural exchange program to share and demonstrate their knowledge, of Tongan heritage crafts in Auckland and Wellington.
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  • Friday 18 October 2013 9:00am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A woman who is alleged to have tried to leave Tonga, using a forged Tongan passport remains in custody with a man who co-accused after the Chinese nationals were arrested at Fua’amotu International Airport, on October 15.
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  • Thursday 17 October 2013 11:30pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : There is corruption in government, Sione Taione, the People's Representative PR No. 8 for Tongatapu, told the Tongan Parliament yesterday, 16 October.
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  • Thursday 17 October 2013 3:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Cheaper fuel prices have been announced for mid-October to mid-November. The prices of Petrol, Kerosene and Diesel have all decreased compared to the prices approved for the last monthly period mid-September to mid-October.
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  • Thursday 17 October 2013 2:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Pacific Forum Secretary General, Tuiloma Neroni Slade (SG Slade), told delegates at a regional meeting in Suva on Monday, 14 October, that pollution, mismanagement and the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources must not be allowed to continue.
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  • Wednesday 16 October 2013 9:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s Prime Minister Lord Tu’ivakano (61) arrived at Fua'amotu International Airport at 5:20pm this afternoon on a flight from Auckland, after receiving medical treatment overseas.
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