Five People's Representatives in the Tongan parliament in 2006 are acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy because of inadequate evidence by the Crown, in a decision released by Tonga's Appeal Court on Wednesday.
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Friday 11 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Friday 11 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's political reform is precisely a reforming of the composition of the parliament, Dr Malakai Koloamatangi, a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, told members of the Tongan media on Wednesday, September 9.

Friday 11 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Katei Taufa (31), who stabbed his wife to death in Vaini on February 21, was sentenced to life imprisonment today at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court.

Friday 11 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's newest media company, BroadCom-TMN Group launched a new FM 88.1 radio station and television production unit on Saturday, September 5 at Ngele'ia.

Friday 11 September 2009
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Sydney, Australia
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes a decision by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to conduct a war crimes investigation into the murder of five Australian-based journalists, known as the Balibo Five, during Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975.

Friday 11 September 2009
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Suva, Fiji
Brad Pitt drinks it, Barack Obama has been photographed with it and Paris Hilton sips it through a straw to save her lipstick.

Thursday 10 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A four-year-old Popua boy died on Tuesday, from sever injuries inflicted as a result of domestic violence, and a man charged with his murder will appear in court next week.

Wednesday 9 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A man accused of murdering 22-year-old mother of three, Fononga Taufa, later confessed to police that he stabbed his wife in a drunken rage at her parents' Vaini home on February 21, the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court was told today.

Wednesday 9 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
An increasing number of crimes commited in Tongatapu last week included a, manslaughter, two rapes and a suicide, along with more cases of assault and housebreaking according to the Tonga Police.

Wednesday 9 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tongan Parliament is making itself irrelevant to the political reform process that it set for 2010, by failing to agree on the fundamentals for a new system of government for Tonga, and at the same time has left itself out of the decision-making process of the Constitutional and Electoral Reform Commission by not meeting the July 6 deadline for submissions. Editor's Comment.

Tuesday 8 September 2009
Prescott Valley, Arizona,USA
Ko e 'uhinga 'eku fakafetu'utaki atu tupu'anga mei hoku tuonga'ane ko Pelenato Pome'e mei Makave Vava'u, ko e pasese 'o e MV Princess Ashika na'e lavea mei he ngoto 'a e vaka. Ko e tu'u he taimini kia Pelenato 'oku vaeua 'e ne mo'ui mo kei faingata'a'ia tupu mei hono lavea mei he ngoto 'a e vaka. 'Oku ou lau hifo 'i he news ko'eni 'i he Matangi Tonga online fekau'aki mo e fu'u pa'anga lau miliona 'oku ma'u 'e he Pule'anga Tonga ko e 'ofa mei muli mo e kakai kehe kehe pe ke tokoni'i 'a e kau victims mo honau ngaahi famili.
Tuesday 8 September 2009
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Auckland, New Zealand
Fiji's suspension from the Commonwealth on September 1 was a dead certainty. Its earlier suspension from the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum didn't deter it and it would have been naïve to think that the threat of this week's - it's third from the Commonwealth since independence - would make the Fijian administration change its mind. By Dev Nadkarni

Tuesday 8 September 2009
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London, UK
Sir paul Reeves, Special Representative of Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma to the Republic of the Fiji Islands, will arrive in Fiji on 8 September for a two-day visit.

Tuesday 8 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Prime Minister, Dr. Feleti Vaka'uta Sevele, will attend a special function on Wednesday, 9 September, in Wellington, New Zealand, marking the important milestone of "Two Years To Go" until the host, New Zealand, meets Tonga in the opening match of the Rugby World Cup 2011.

Monday 7 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Many bereaved families from the Ashika ferry disaster have expressed a need for assistance in financing the education of their children, said Sione Tupouniua, an American Tongan, who completed a two-week fact-finding mission to Tonga at the weekend.

Monday 7 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The retiring Commander of the United States Pacific Command in Hawaii, Admiral Timothy J. Keating, dropped into to Tonga for lunch, arriving in a private aircraft on Friday, September 4, on a three-hour farewell visit.

Monday 7 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Queen Salote College's annual bazaar held on Saturday September 5, attracted a crowd of shoppers eager to buy the quality handicrafts made by students.

Sunday 6 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The question is not whether Fiji's dictator Frank Bainimarama will fail or not, but rather when? Yes, when will he realise that he will never succeed in his false and conceited quest for a reformed Fiji?

Friday 4 September 2009
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga will send 77 athletes to compete at the 8th South Pacific Islands Mini Games in the Cook Islands, expected to attract over 1000 athletes from the region, September 21 to October 2.

Friday 4 September 2009
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Neiafu, Vava'u
Dozens of cruising yachts are sailing in the Port of Refuge Harbour this week for Tonga's first "Annual Regatta Vava'u" that opened Thursday September 3.
