The debate on the Budget Statement and the Budget Program for 2010-11 in the Tongan Legislative Assembly on Thursday, June 24 highlighted how members of parliament, particularly People's Representatives, do not know how aid funds are induced into the national budget.
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Wednesday 7 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Wednesday 7 July 2010
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Beijing, China
'Ana Nukuao Ve'ehala is the first Tongan to graduate from China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing.

Wednesday 7 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon Murray McCully arrived in Tonga last night, July 6, for a one-day visit that coincides with 40 years of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and Tonga.

Wednesday 7 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two men were arrested last week and charged with the robbery and theft of an Asian business at Lapaha, where more than $1,000 cash was stolen in May this year.

Tuesday 6 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Miss Galaxy Queen Pageant 2010 started with colourful float parade in Nuku'alofa on Saturday, July 3.

Tuesday 6 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Court of Appeal 2010 Session began at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on July 5 and will run for two weeks, ending with the delivery of judgements on July 14.

Tuesday 6 July 2010
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Neiafu, Vava'u
Photos by Sione Vuki Vava'u High School is celebrating its 25th Anniversary over four days of festivities that began on July 4.

Friday 2 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
MELE'ANA Taulahi (25) has entered the 2010 Miss Heilala Pageant as Miss Tonga Visitors Bureau - and so far is the only entry out of the 12 contestants expected to join.

Friday 2 July 2010
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Brisbane, Australia
Foreign tuna industry power brokers blocked developing nations trying to protect tuna stocks in their own waters at a key international fisheries meeting that closed today in Brisbane.

Friday 2 July 2010
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Noumea, New Caledonia
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), and the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD, French Research Institute for Development) with the European Commission (EC) have concluded a five-day meeting today, culminating with a set of agreed 'roadmaps' for project activities under the Pacific Europe Network for Science and Technology (PACE-Net) project.

Friday 2 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongas domestic interim ferry MV Ajang Subuh that has been servicing the outer islands in Tonga for over two months is currently not sailing due to engine problems.

Friday 2 July 2010
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Nukualofa,Tonga
A 63-year-old father from Fua'amotu was sentenced to seven years in Hu'atolitoli Prison for five counts of incest after he repeatedly committed indecent sexual acts on his own daughter, from 2006 to December 2009.

Friday 2 July 2010
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Portland, Oregon,USA
The last two letters, about Fare-well Payoffs said it all, I can not add anything to it. I believe it is time for Tongans to wake up and stand up for righteousness. You need a good old fashion Tea Party movement. - Cliff.

Friday 2 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Yesterday on Tonga television we heard about a nuclear program in Tonga. No, Please! The Nuclear power is highly dangerous and doesn't really improve in any way the actual situation of the country. - Corinna Langi.

Thursday 1 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Faced with continuing drops in remittances and two years of negative growth, Tonga's financial planners have turned to aid donors to support the national budget for the new financial year 2010-11, in order to meet a current deficit of $12.1 million pa'anga, as well as multi-million pa'anga development budget needs.

Thursday 1 July 2010
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Salt Lake City-Utah, USA
It is clear that Tongan leaders are neither bringing the Aristotlean Participatory Democracy model known as "the rule of the many." Nor do they plan for a Representative Democracy model (egalitarianism). - Sione Akemeihakau Mokofisi.

Thursday 1 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Miss Galaxy Queen Pageant a colourful annual event will this year showcase on July 7-9, ten contestants vying for the title.

Thursday 1 July 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
THE eyes of the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China would focus on Tonga for its National Day Celebration on August 2, at the Pacific Pavilion.

Thursday 1 July 2010
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Pangai, Ha'apai
Farewell pay-off? Shame on you! If MPs were paid 10 times the per capita income of the average Tongan citizen, that would only amount to half of what they are being paid now. In other words, MPs are now making at least 20 times the per capita income. And for what? - P. A. Langi.

Wednesday 30 June 2010
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Paris, France
Commodore Frank Bainimarama, Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns your decision to promulgate the Media Industry Development Decree yesterday, as it marks a dangerous step backwards for press freedom and media development in Fiji.
