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Despite being launched only a year ago by Pacific leaders, the negotiations on the Pacific trade agreement known as PACER-Plus are slipping away from the Islands. The bureaucratic forces and power politics of the region's bigger neighbours are already shaping the agenda and outcomes of negotiations in a direction different to the developmental aspirations of the Pacific.

A contingent of 55 Tongan soldiers is expected to serve in Afghanistan in November, the first of 275 soldiers committed over a two year period by the Tongan government yesterday, after convincing the House it will provide much needed jobs.

A float Parade on Taufa'ahau road featuring the newly crowned Miss Heiala 2010-11 Mafi Tu'inukuafe concluded the annual Heilala Festival and Miss Heilala Pageant in Nuku'alofa.

A show of colourful contemporary island creations and beachwear modelled by the 10 Miss Heilala contestants on Thursday evening, was their last appearance before tonight's final judging events for the Miss Heilala 2010-11 crowning.

"If you pay peanuts, then you get monkeys." Maybe so . . . but basic needs must come first: health care, education, and the maintenance of basic community infrastructuremust come first . . . well before salaries of parliamentarians. - P. A. Langi.

Ko Tonga ni foki, ko e ki'i Niche Market pe. Pea ko e 'uhinga ia 'oku totonu ai ke tau fakaafe'i mai pe 'a e kau Mega Investor, koe'uhi ke nau cater pe ki he levolo 5-Stars 'o a'u ki he 7-Stars resorts. Pea 'e fu'u fiema'u 'aupito leva ke fakangofua 'e he va'a palani 'a e Pule'anga ke ngaue'aki 'a e Zoning. 'O hange koeni, ko e zone 'o e kau Mega Investor ko Vahemotu, pea ko e zone 'o e kau Local Investor ko 'Uta Vava'u. - Paula Kava.

Charged with manslaughter by negligence over the death of a young mother, Vae Fetu'u Taufa, in the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika last year, four persons and the Shipping Corporation of Polynesia Ltd. appeared before Magistrate Paula Tatafu at the Fasi Magistrate's Court this morning.

TEN Tongan beauties took part in the 2010 Miss Heilala Pre-Pageant Interview on the morning of Monday, July 19, the first judging event.

A reform bill that will allow an independent commission to set the salaries of members of parliament, before it was passed this month, met stiff resistance in the House from members who have long enjoyed setting their own salaries.