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Five licences were issued last week to sea cucumber operators to fish and to export sea cucumber from Tonga for the 2009 season, which runs from April 1 until the end of September.

Fanongo talanoa 'oku teu fokotu'u e 'apiako Mosilemi 'i Tonga na. 'Oku ou kole atu mu'a ke fakatatali kae toki vakai hili 'e tau fangatua mo 'etau teu liliuu.

Maritime terrorism has emerged as a formidable threat to world peace, and Pacific Island countries are not immune to such a threat, Tonga's Solicitor General 'Aminiasi Kefu told participants at the opening of a two-days workshop on Maritime Security in Nuku'alofa yesterday morning, May 7.

World-record holder Tahnee Afuhaamango has got to be Tonga's best-kept secret. The young Tongan-Australian swimming sensation not only became the overall World Female Champion at the Down Syndrome International Swimming Organisation Championships in Portugal last December, but over the last four years she has smashed world records and won several gold medals representing Tonga.

Ne u lau hifo he tohi 'etita 'i ho'o peesi he uike ni, ko e ui ki ha taki fo'ou. Ko e me'a lelei e vahevahe fakakaukau, 'i hano fokotu'u mai ha ngaahi fokotu'utu'u 'oku maama mo faka'amanaki, pea fakalotolahi ki hota kaha'u.

‘I he taimi lahi hange 'oku lahi ange feta'aki ia 'a e ngaahi kautaha ongoongo 'e ni'ihi 'i hono fai honau fatongia 'a ia ko e 'omai e ngaahi fakamatala mo'oni mo totonu ki hono, ako'i mo faka'ilo ki he kakai e me'a 'oku hoko pea ke fakafiefia'i mo fakafiemalie ki he kakai. - Pola Loiti.

I wish you all the best to your 61 birthday today (May 4), even if you celebrate it now at the coronation day. - Thomas Hollenbeck

The Tonga Cabinet is undergoing a reshuffle as two new Ministers take-up the portfolios of Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Forestry and Minister of Information and Communication while the Minister of Justice is resigning.

Journalists' faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study. The rollback was not confined to traditionally authoritarian states; with Israel, Italy and Hong Kong slipping from the study's Free category to Partly Free status.