The 20th birthday of the Taimi 'o Tonga newspaper was marked with a thanksgiving prayer service at the Queen Salote College Hall on Saturday, November 21, with the publisher and editor Kalafi Moala announcing changes.
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Friday 19 January 2007
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Not too long ago the Pro-demos were basking in the sun when their voices were trumpeted by Mr. Moala's "Taimi 'o Tonga." It was OK then to Viliami that Mr. Moala "regurgitated" Pro-demos news releases. - Sione Ake Mokofisi
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Monday 15 January 2007
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga government is taking three days to look at how its information services performed in the lead-up to and following the events of November 16, and the Prime Minister's Office has called in its former nemesis, Kalafi Moala, to lead them through it.
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Saturday 1 October 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
While the Friday Taimi 'o Tonga and the Talaki claimed that the Ministry of Forestry has been operating illegally, the other three newspapers, the Tuesday Taimi, the Kele'a and the Kalonikali featured other lead stories.
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Monday 2 May 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
An argument among "Demos" People's Representatives, and between the Demos and the new kid on the block, the People's Democratic Party, featured in most of the local newspapers this week in Tonga, apart from the Kele'a, which featured another episode in the Piveni Pikula revelations about Shoreline.
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Monday 25 April 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The front pages of the three Local newspapers the Taimi, the Talaki and the Kalonikali, published this week, were dominated by story of the sudden death of Tonga's Minister of Defence, Col. Fetu'utolu Tupou, but other key stories included the planned May 7 march by petitioners to the Palace, the formation of the People's Democratic Party, and the need for more security at the prison to stop escapes.
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Saturday 16 April 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Prominent on the front pages of the Kalonikali, the Kele'a and the Talaki this week was the Inter-College Sports, and the Talaki also reported a move to form a People's Democratic Party. While the front pages of the two issues of the Taimi 'o Tonga this week featured Tongan-New Zealand stories.
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Friday 18 March 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The March 17 Parliamentary Election maintains it's strong presence on the front page of all newspapers published in Tonga this week - the Tonga Star, Taimi ‘o Tonga and the Ko e Kele‘a.
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Tuesday 12 October 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Nuku'alofa office of the Auckland-based, Taimi 'o Tonga newspaper said that the newspaper will start distributing in Tonga again on Friday October 15.
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Wednesday 16 June 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The civil court case between Lali Media Group Limited seeking damages from the Government of Tonga for their banning of the Taimi ...o Tonga Newspaper in Tonga last year is to be settled out of court.
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Monday 10 May 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Newspaper activist 'Alani Taione pleaded not guilty to charges relating to the importation of an unlicenced newspaper the Taimi 'o Tonga, and will face trial by jury on a date to be set.
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Wednesday 4 February 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tongan people, for the last three weeks have been deprived of reading newspapers, including the Tongan government's own newspaper.
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Wednesday 14 January 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongan Police raided village shops in Tonga last week confiscating copies of the Taimi 'o Tonga newspaper, and also seizing cash from shops that had sold newspapers.
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Tuesday 30 December 2003
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Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
The Tonga office of the Taimi ‘o Tonga Newspaper has been told by the Business Licence Sector of the Ministry of Labour and Commerce it will not extend its business licence to operate in Tonga when the weekly newspaper’s quarterly business licence expires on December 31. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003.
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Monday 1 December 2003
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The reason why the Tongan Government decided to enact Media Bills and to amend Clause 7 of the Constitution so that they can control the local Media, remains a mystery. One thing that is clear, however, is that the new media legislation is vindictive, because it is meant to hurt. - Matangi Tonga, Vol. 18, No. 3
Monday 8 September 2003
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The failure of the Crown to win a court case against the Taimi 'o Tonga newspaper continued last week with the dismissal by a jury in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on September 3 of a criminal defamation case against Mateni Tapueluelu, the Editor of the Taimi 'o Tonga.
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Friday 1 August 2003
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The long anticipated cat-and-mouse game between the Auckland-based weekly newspaper, Taimi 'o Tonga, and the Tongan government got off to a slow start on February 27, after weeks of uncertainty over whether a confrontation was ever going to take place. "Import bans on a Tongan language newspaper fail to stick". From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 2, August 2003.
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