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Giant Microsoft Corp will not name its next operating system "Windows Fiji", the company said.

In the scheme of things, this is insignificant. The military regime is still in charge, and the chiefs who favored secession will be prosecuted for treason and removed. What is most notable, the son of Ratu Mara, Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, is in the middle of it. Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba is a lieutenant-colonel in Fiji's army, now the Lau Group Provincial Chairman. This is a strange twist of fate. The group who booted Ratu Mara out of power now has Mara's son as one of their own. - Tama Foa

A witness told the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court today, that he saw and heard the accused 'Isileli Pulu thank the rioters who were damaging the Pacific Royale Hotel on November 16, 2006.

The completion of one of Australia's largest aid programmes to Tonga, a $10 million pa'anga Fisheries Project, was marked with a special ceremony at the Ministry of Fisheries, Sopu, this afternoon, June 27.

"Disappointed" was the reaction of the Chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, Hon. Dr. Feleti Sevele, to a decision by Commodore Frank Bainimarama to withdraw Fiji from the Fiji-Forum Joint Working Group.

A fireman told the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court today Thursday June 26 that they found remains of deceased persons at the site of the Shoreline building on November 17, 2006, a day after the riots.

Seventeen local boys and girls from the Central Vaheloto District joined the fourth round of Tonga's Top Model competition held at St Andrews Hall, Nuku'alofa, last night.

Ko e fakakaukau lelei 'aupito 'eni, ka kuo pau ke effective pea masila e kau taki potungaue he fakapapau'i 'oku fualelei pea productive e kaungaaue. Tuku pee ngaahi 'apiako mo e ngaahi potungaue kehe kuo pau ke nau lele pee he anga maheni. - Tu‘uta Sekeni

More than ten years after adoption of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, there is a dangerous stalemate on enforcement, according to a new report released today by Transparency International TI.