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  • Monday 10 February 2014 2:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Futa Helu Library at the ‘Atenisi Institute, Kolomotu’a was officially opened by Princess Pilolevu on February 7.
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  • Sunday 9 February 2014 2:43pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 61-year-old man from Afa has been charged with manslaughter by negligence after a 62-year-old cyclist died after he was allegedly hit by a vehicle on the evening of February 6 in Hoi, Tongatapu. It was the second road death in Tonga this year.
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  • Sunday 9 February 2014 2:30pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Tonga Police fleet of patol vehicles will be better managed with a new maintenance workshop that is to be constructed with a $192,174 (TOP) grant from the Government of Japan.
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  • Friday 7 February 2014 4:30pm


    Sochi, Russia
    : The Tonga team to the XXII Winter Olympic Games was welcomed to the Mountains Games Village by the Vice-Mayor of Sochi on Wednesday, 5 February.
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  • Friday 7 February 2014 6:00am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Archers, Lusitania Tatafu and Arne Jensen, are Tonga's hope for qualified athletes to represent the country at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games (YOG), in Nanjing, China in August.
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  • Thursday 6 February 2014 7:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga's team, supporting its first winter Olympian Luger Bruno Banani, will march on Friday night in the opening ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics, officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games (or the 22nd Winter Olympics) at 8:00pm in Sochi, Russia, (Tongan time 5:14am -8:14am Saturday February 8) at the Fisht Olympic Stadium.
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  • Thursday 6 February 2014 6:15pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The Wellington Sevens 2014 will kick-off tomorrow. Tonga is lined-up to play against Australia, Samoa and Kenya.
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  • Thursday 6 February 2014 6:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A Magistrate in Nuku’alofa is expected to decide on February 18 whether there is a case for committal to the Supreme Court against two Chinese nationals charged in relation to the forgery of Tongan passports. Police reported that the woman accused had tried to leave Tonga allegedly on a forged Tongan passport after they both entered on Chinese passports on October 11, 2013.
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  • Thursday 6 February 2014 6:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Stuart Perry from New Zealand is the first General Manager of the newly established Tonga Tourism Authority.
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  • Thursday 6 February 2014 5:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Thirty young girls aged 11-19 years from Tongatapu villages have taken part in a three-day “Eliminating Violence against Girls” Camp 2014.
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  • Thursday 6 February 2014 5:30am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A shallow M5.3 earthquake with an epicenter located 72km east of ‘Ohonua, ‘Eua was recorded at 4:04am this morning, February 6, according to the USGS.
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  • Wednesday 5 February 2014 3:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Fafa Island Resort yesterday, February 4, celebrated the declaration of about 485 hectares of reef and sea area around the Island as a Special Management Area. The special protected status means that only a person or a fishing vessel that has been approved by the Coastal Community Management Committee may enter the area.
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  • Tuesday 4 February 2014 7:00pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Twenty-four Tupou College students and two adults have been charged with serious criminal offences, including attempted murder, attempted arson, grievous bodily harm, and bodily harm, in relation to a violent attack at a home in Tofoa last year. 123 others were sentenced on February 3, after pleading guilty to lesser charges.
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  • Tuesday 4 February 2014 5:59pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : The ability of the domestic industry to compete in the southern long-line albacore fishery has hit the point of no return. Tying-up vessels and sending employees home is now the reality that is faced by the Pacific Islands Tuna Industry Association members that have an interest in this fishery. Tonga has one domestic vessel left – down from a high of 26. - PITIA
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  • Tuesday 4 February 2014 5:45pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : All classrooms at Tupou High School's Nukunuku Campus are being renovated by the Government of Japan.
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  • Tuesday 4 February 2014 5:11pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga Power Limited announced that it has increased electricity tariffs by a fraction of a seniti (0.39 seniti). New electricity tariffs for all Island groups are now 93.21 seniti per kilowatt (up from 92.82 seniti).
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  • Tuesday 4 February 2014 11:18am


    Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
    : The Sea Mercy charity – a floating health care service that routinely visits remote islands throughout the Pacific will visit Tonga’s Ha’apai Group to offer medical support earlier than usual this year.
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  • Tuesday 4 February 2014 10:45am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Counterfeit $50 and $10 pa'anga notes found in Tonga lack watermarks and security threads, the National Reserve Bank of Tonga warns.
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  • Tuesday 4 February 2014 9:30am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s third solar farm is being constructed at Vaini on Tongatapu, at a cost of $14 million (USD) under Japanese aid funding. The project will introduce a special micro-grid system to coordinate electricity generated from a variety of renewable sources in the future.
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  • Monday 3 February 2014 6:57pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Bruno Banani, Tonga's first ever winter Olympian, to compete in Luge in Sochi, Russia, next week will wear a flamboyant snow proof uniform, sponsored by German firm Bogner.
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