For your information Mr. Koester, Tonga Broadcasting Commission - TBC, does not have anything to hide and again I would like to enlighten you that Tonga Broadcasting Commission was and is still a commercially operated business giving free service to the public.
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Saturday 24 November 2007
Neiafutahi,Neiafu, Vava'u Lahi
I read in Matangi Tonga and other publications about the news conference pertaining to objective and balanced reporting. I am not surprised by the recalcitrant attitude of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission Chief News Editor towards the Minister of Information's planned journalist guideline for government media outlets. - Heinz Koester
Saturday 24 November 2007
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Kampala, Uganda
he Queen's speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Uganda, 23 November 2007.

Saturday 24 November 2007
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Suva, Fiji
Transparency International Fiji would like to support NGOs calling for budget transparency. Transparency International (Fiji) has always supported open budgeting and believes in a consultative process that involves members of the public and other key stakeholders.

Friday 23 November 2007
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Kampala, Uganda
The Commonwealth Minsiterial Action Group on the Harare Declaration (CMAG) met at the Serena Hotel, Kampala on 22 November 2007. The meeting was chaired by Hon Michael Frendo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta. Other members of the Group who attended the meeting were Hon Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lesotho, Hon Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, Hon Bernard Membe, Foreign Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon Samuel Abal, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration of Papua New Guinea, Rt. Hon David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary, Hon Helena Guergis, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, and Hon Dato' Joseph Salang, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia. A statement was read out on behalf of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of St. Lucia.

Friday 23 November 2007
'Okalani, Nu'usila
'I he 'eku tohi ni 'e fai ai ha sio fakalukufua ki he anga e tauhi Kulii Le'o (Watchdog) 'a e Pule'anga Tonga, pehe ki he to'onga e fanga kulii taautaha ke tau sio ange pe 'oku hu'u ki fee 'a e fanga Kulii Le'o he teuaki atu ko 'eni ki hono fakahoko e fakalelei fakapolitikale he ta'u 'e ua ka hoko mai. - Kitekei‘aho Tu‘akalau
Thursday 22 November 2007
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Kampala, Uganda
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM, will be officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in Kampala, Uganda, on Friday. Tonga was represented at the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting by the Tongan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, HE Dr Ngongo Kioa.

Thursday 22 November 2007
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Manila, Philippines
The Asian Development Bank ADB and the governments of Japan and Australia are providing $88 million in financing to support the development of Samoa's power sector.

Thursday 22 November 2007
Neiafutahi,Neiafu, Vava'u
My dearest Ms. K. Tohi, You are correct, I, my family and all of Vava'u wish to watch Television Tonga in Vava'u, and not only that, it is our right to watch Television Tonga in Vava'u Lahi. - Heinz Koester
Wednesday 21 November 2007
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Savelino Ma'asi Mafi (20) is the 2007 Dux of Tonga's 'Ahopanilolo Technical College, which specialises in hospitality and commercial cookery.

Wednesday 21 November 2007
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Highlighting mediation as a process of settling disputes out of court has been the biggest achievement of Tonga's first Law Week, according to Tonga's Chief Justice Anthony Ford.

Wednesday 21 November 2007
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Utah, USA
Where else in the world but with credulous Tongans could he be deemed respectable? Please Mr Harder, Tonga is now addicted to fatty mutton flaps, which no civilized Kiwi dares to eat. Tonga does not need another rejected product from New Zealand.

Wednesday 21 November 2007
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Koester in his article stated that TBC Directors and Management ordered the broadcast of Fiji 1 TV program on TV-Vava'u and he also stated the reasons why he does not like TBC's airing Fiji One in Vava'u.

Tuesday 20 November 2007
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's $118 million loan from China, has to be the sorriest loan application in the world; coming as a request from a poverty stricken country to a nation whose people we have ill-treated, the Kalonikali reports on November 15, quoting 'Eseta Fusitu'a, the Chief Secretary to Government and Cabinet. Highlights from Tonga's newspapers, November 12-15, 2007. An English translation summary by Tevita Fonua.

Tuesday 20 November 2007
USA
My eighty-year-old mother, who is a Tongan citizen and also a US citizen, was on her way to Fiji from Tonga on an Air Pacific flight of November 10, 2007 at 9:am. She checked in her luggage and paid her taxes and she was on her way to the waiting area to board her flight when she was approached by Tongan official (female) demanding money. - Lucia Siulangapo
Tuesday 20 November 2007
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Suva, Fiji
Transparency International Fiji is calling the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation Ltd to make public its recruitment process in the appointment of the new FBCL CEO, Mr. Riyaz Saiyad Khaiyum.

Tuesday 20 November 2007
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Pago Pago, American Samoa
Kolomotu'a's pig owners are weird, come to think about it. Families secure themselves and their property in and feed their pigs outside of their fence. So, the rest of the village of Kolomotu'a is their piggery. Hange pe 'oku pe he ha me'a. This is when the "gentlemen's rule" should be the obvious solution. - Mafi 'o Amerika Samoa

Tuesday 20 November 2007
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Rome, Italy
By 2030 an additional 37 million tonnes of fish per year will be needed to maintain current levels of fish consumption for an expanded world population. Because traditional capture fisheries have reached their maximum production levels, fish farming represents the only way to fill the gap. But it will only do so if it is promoted and managed in a responsible fashion.

Tuesday 20 November 2007
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Denver, USA
A new USGS Circular illustrates the importance of water budgets as an essential tool in addressing concerns about water availability in the 21st Century.

Tuesday 20 November 2007
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Sydney, Australia
The Japanese Whaling fleet left the port of Shimonoseki in Japan on Sunday the 18 November for the Antarctic to kill over 1000 whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary under the guise of 'scientific' whaling.
