$11 million pa'anga for the installation of new Solar Home Systems in eleven remote island communities in Vava'u and two islands off Tongatapu was committed by the Government of Japan to Tonga last week.
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Monday 15 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga

Monday 15 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Government of Japan has donated $640,000 pa'anga for the construction of new facilities at Niu'eiki Hospital, 'Eua, and the upgrading of water supply systems for villages in Vava'u.

Monday 15 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Kataki pe mu'a kae tuku atu e ki'i fakamalo tu'a ni ki he Palemia pea mo e pule'anga Tonga koe'uhii ko ho'omou loto lahi mo tau'ataina kae fokotu'u e Komisoni ki he Ashika. Ne mahino pe mei Falealea ne 'i ai e loto 'o e Fale ke 'i ai pe ha'anau Komisoni ka ko ho'omou loto lahi ne fokotu'u ai e Komisoni. -Samiu

Monday 15 March 2010
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London, UK
Ms. Mallaney's letter hits it on the nail. The PM says it is 'individuals' faults and weakness rather than a system that is getting corrupt year by year. -William Mariner

Monday 15 March 2010
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Sydney, Australia
Thirty Australian unions and community groups today asked the Trade Minister to safeguard the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Australian local content in media, regulation of GE food, regulation of foreign investment and industry policies that support local employment in the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) negotiations which start on Monday March 15.

Monday 15 March 2010
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Port Vila, Vanuatu
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today launched a series of reports indicating that Pacific business women need better access to information and knowledge- sharing opportunities on business formalities to realize their full economic potential and contribute to their countries' national development.

Sunday 14 March 2010
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Salt Lake City-Utah, USA
May I ask Mr. Chan: Must our social duties to strengthen national security, people's safety, and national economic stability be trusted to untested personal opinions? How many opinions are out there, and whose opinion shall we rely upon? - Sione Akemeihakau Mokofisi

Sunday 14 March 2010
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Pago Pago, American Samoa
Norah Mallany calls it the way Inspector General's would, based on evidences at hand. Mokofisi, just couldn't realize that he got on a broken wagon, and never made it out of the dark. Siaosi Fatani is having a tough time making sense out of all of this because there is no-sense in it especially after Mr. Senituli muddied the water with defensive non-essentials avoiding the main issue. -Mafi 'o Amerika Samoa

Saturday 13 March 2010
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Noumea, New Caledonia
Twenty scientists gathered recently at an International Tuna Tagging Workshop held at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's (SPC) headquarters in New Caledonia. The world's largest ever tuna tagging project has released over 250,000 tagged tuna into the equatorial Western and Central Pacific Ocean and 35,000 tags have already been recovered. The data being collected will help in sustaining and protecting the world's largest resource of tuna.

Friday 12 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The final session of the Tonga Legislative Assembly under its current composition has been unofficially set for early April, but this date has yet to be confirmed.

Friday 12 March 2010
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Hong Kong, China
I would not discredit Ms. Mallaney's letter entirely our focus should lie heavily with ensuring that we have all the available safety-nets in place (be it in a policy, process, system or others) thus ensuring that we can minimize the chances of a similar tragedy going forward. -Siaosi Lee Chan

Thursday 11 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The first International Conference for Tongan Nurses was officially opened by HM the Queen Mother Halaevalu Mata'aho, at the Janfull International Dateline Hotel yesterday evening, March 10.

Thursday 11 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Britain's Princess Royal, HRH Princess Anne (59), will visit Tonga from March 20-23 to attend part of the study tour program of the Emerging Pacific Leaders Dialogue 2010, a regional leadership development program.

Thursday 11 March 2010
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Sydney, Australia
The Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement expresses grave concern at the lack of news and coverage by Fiji's local media of the whereabouts of former parliamentarian Peceli Rinakama.Rinakama's family members in Fiji confirmed about two hours ago that he has not returned nor do they know of his whereabouts since he was arrested by the Military last Friday.

Thursday 11 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The reconstruction of Niuatoputapu following the September 30 tsunami that devastated the island of Niuatoputapu in northern Tonga is set to begin this year.

Wednesday 10 March 2010
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Wellington,New Zealand
Eligible people from Samoa, Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tonga will be able to register their interest in becoming a resident of New Zealand during May.

Tuesday 9 March 2010
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New York, USA
The Tongan Ambassador to the USA, His Excellency Hon. Sonatane Tu'akinamolahi Taumoepeau Tupou presented his credentials to the President of the United States of America, His Excellency Mr Barack H. Obama at the White House, Washington DC on Wednesday 24 February 2010.

Tuesday 9 March 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The distribution has begun of the $1.1 million pa'anga Ashika Relief Fund to the next of kin of the 74 people who were lost at sea, and the 54 survivors from the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika in Ha'apai waters on August 5, 2009.

Tuesday 9 March 2010
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Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
The PM's Office and Ms. Mallaney of Global Integrity are busy ridiculing each other. (PM's Advisor . . . 05 Mar 2010). They have not stated any useful purpose for arguing in this forum.

Tuesday 9 March 2010
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San Francisco, USA
I hereby wish to respond to Lopeti Senituli's letter of March 5, 2010 in which he was defending the Government Procurement System. In his defense, he accused Ms. Norah Mallaney of Washington DC, USA of contradicting ( in his words - ". . . is full of contradictions ") the Procure System of the Government of Tonga. -Siosaia Fatani.
