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The Tonga Broadcasting Commission is celebrating its 50 Years Golden Jubilee in Nuku'alofa on July 1-4, with a groundbreaking ceremony for the instalment of a new national AM Medium Wave Transmission Mast at Popua – to replace a 50 year old mast operating since the inception of the service in 1961.

A small number of drivers who were tested for alcohol exceeded the limits during the first six months of breath testing in Tonga.

Tonga's Minister of Labour has been warned by New Zealand officials that the number of RSE runaways in New Zealand must be reduced soon or Tonga may not be able to send seasonal workers in future.

We are living in an age of austerity, and responsible government must without fail act swiftly to stave off being sucked into the bottomless black hole of debt. We all have to sit up and re-think the way we work; locations of offices and official premises; travelling expenses and even our pensions are being looked at. – Senolita Swan.

A focus on the cost figure without paying due consideration to the practical processes by which these costs contributes to the economy borders on negligence. In that, I agree with Katalin that closing of foreign consular offices (under the label of cost-savings) needs very careful consideration. – Peni Fukofuka.

The US Government is reintroducing USAID to the Pacific region and together with other aid donors will be looking at more coordinated assistance to the Pacific islands, a high level US delegation announced in reaffirming its friendly relationship with Tonga this week.

Major Loic Davaillon French Defence Attache to Fiji and Tonga visited Nuku'alofa to represent France in the planning meeting for the Military Exercise "Tafakula" to be held in Tongatapu in August.

Over $1 million pa'anga was collected by ex-students of Tupou College at their 145th Anniversary Celebration at Toloa on Saturday, June 25.

'Oku ou kole fakamolemole atu pe ke mou kataki mu'a ketau 'uluaki 'analaiso'i 'a e tefito'i ngaue fakapule'anga mo e pule'anga mo e mahu'inga 'o e feohingaue kimu'a pea tau toki laku 'etau ngaahi fokotu'utu'u ke tapuni e kae fokotu'u e. 'I he anga 'etau feohi fakangaue 'oku fu'u mahu'inga 'aupito 'a e me'a tonu 'a e Talafekau Lahi Tonga ki Pilitania mo Iulope he ngaahi fakataha lalahi 'oku hoko he taimi katoa. - Katalin Baranyi.