Interplast Australia and New Zealand team will visit Tonga from 28 October 3 November 2011 to assist Tongan National Health Services to conduct specialist consultation clinics and perform plastic and reconstructive surgery services. - Australian plastic surgery team.
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Tuesday 18 October 2011
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Melbourne,Australia
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Tuesday 18 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
It's now official that Members of Parliament may receive generouly funded trips for medical treatment overseas in addition to their full salaries and allowances. From the House, by Pesi Fonua.
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Monday 17 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
In an effort to revive its dying fishing industry Tonga has opened up its tuna fishing to licensed foreign fishing vessels, the Ministry of Fisheries has confirmed.
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Monday 17 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's sea cucumber harvesting season that was extended for two weeks from September 30 was closed on Saturday, October 15, according to the Ministry of Fisheries.
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Sunday 16 October 2011
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Suva, Fiji
Ambassador Frankie A. Reed presented her credentials to the President of Fiji, H.E. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau, earlier today (13 Oct), following her arrival in Fiji to be the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Fiji. Ambassador Reed will serve concurrently as Ambassador to the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, the Kingdom of Tonga, and Tuvalu.
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Sunday 16 October 2011
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Melbourne, Australia
Fijian hip hop crew, BSQ are set to get the crowds jumping at this year's Fest'Napuan music festival in Vanuatu as the winners of the Pacific Break 2011 competition after their slick dance track'Rue Ele Ele remix' was selected as the winning song.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Speaker of Parliament Lord Lasike appeared before Justice Shuster in closed chambers today after he failed to turn up in open court this morning for arraignment.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
After a six years lapse, the Tongatapu's Royal Agriculture, Fisheries and Industries Show returns with abundant displays of traditional Tongan foods, beautiful handmade handicrafts as well as seafood fish at the Manamou'i Grounds at 'Atele from October 14-15.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Neiafu, Vava'u
Ko e kelekele na'e tuku ki he langi 'e he 'Uluaki Faa, ko e Kovinanite ia 'oku makatu'unga ai hotau Tonga, pea na'e fakatapui ia ke 'oua na'a faifai pea fakatau atu 'o tatau aipe pe ko hai. Paula Kava.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
In a year that has seen a dramatic increase in armed robberies in Tonga, parliament voted to massively reduce the penalties for the illegal possession of firearms - slashing the maximum penalty from $5,000 to only $1,000 and from five years imprisonment to only one year.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Justice Robert Shuster ordered a warrant of arrest to be issued for Lord Lasike the Speaker of Parliament, after he did not turn up at the Supreme Court for arraignment on a count of unlawful possession of ammunition, this morning, October 14.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Speaker of the Tongan Parliament, Lord Lasike is expected to appear at the Supreme Court in Nuku'alofa today on the charge of unlawful possession of ammunition for .22 rifles.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Goodlands, Tasmania,Australia
I was interested to see "the whisper in your ear" incident. The previous government had little regard for proper procedure. Tonga is now paying the price for the neglect of the previous government. John Cauchi.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga Defence Services rugby team enters the semifinal at the first International Defence Rugby Cup Competition after beating the New Zealand Defence Force 27-26 in Sydney yesterday, October 13.
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Friday 14 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's new export fish market facility remains unfinished while the government is looking for donor funding to complete it, and to hopefully boost Tonga's dying fishing industry.
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Thursday 13 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A parliamentary tour report presented by 'Akilisi Pohiva to the House was thrown out on October 5 after a majority concluded that the report was irrelevant, unreliable and not clearly representing the views of his constituency, Tongatapu 1. The decision was unprecedented in the history of parliamentary tours. The member's response to the criticisms was that the report was written by a woman who accompanied him. From the House By Pesi Fonua. Premium Content.
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Thursday 13 October 2011
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Washington DC,USA
Tulou, Tulou mo Ha'a Moheofo
Mo Ha'a Takiama he anga 'o e nofo
'Otua mo Tonga ko hota Tofi'a
Vilingia 'eta Fuka ko Hono ta'ata'a.
- Tu'iono & Fa'otusia.
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Wednesday 12 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's sea cucumber harvesting season was extended for two weeks from September 30, the Ministry of Fisheries confirmed today, October 15.
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Wednesday 12 October 2011
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Neiafu, Vava'u
A 22-year-old man from Ovaka was found guilty on the charge of manslaughter by negligence over the death of a 15-year-old girl from Ha'alaufuli who died after drowning when the small fishing vessel she was on sank on its way from Neiafu to Ovaka Island, on 11 August 2010.
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Wednesday 12 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
'Ikale Tahi captain Finau Maka was popular in pink today as a special guest at an annual fundraising luncheon for the "Pink October Breast Cancer Awareness" programme.
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