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Friday 31 October 2008
USA
My GPS Fotua education tells me that a normal working person works 40 hours a week through out the 52 weeks of the year. At the end of the year, there are possible 2,080 working hours. Give or take a few days for illness, religious services and hangover; there are plenty of hours worked. Parliament on the other hand, worked less than 200 hours during this parliamentary session. - Tama Foa
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Friday 31 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's only paediatrician Dr Toakase Fakakovikaetau - disturbed by the fact that too many sick children with heart problems were dying needlessly - set out to find them early with a screening program that has now received international recognition.
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Friday 31 October 2008
Penrith, Australia
The Toa Samoa team to play the Mate Ma'a Tonga today, Friday October 31, was named by John Ackland, Toa Samoa coach, at their camp at Penrith, West Sydney.
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Thursday 30 October 2008
Camp Virginia, Kuwait
Taniela "Danny" Vea, a Tongan American who works in the war zones of the Middle East, says he was happy to be with the Tongan Marines who were staying at Camp Virginia, located near the Udairi Range in northern Kuwait.
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Thursday 30 October 2008
Suva, Fiji
I recently visited Tonga and was surprised to find out that our very own 'Tonga Visitors Bureau' and Ministry of Tourism, had taken the lead in misguiding our visitors arriving in our poor Kingdom, with the map displayed out in their front yard. - Leonaitasi Taukafa
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Princess Regent HRH Princess Salote Mafile'o Pilolevu Tuita will close the 2008 session of Tonga's Legislative Assembly on Thursday, November 6.
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's National Women's Rugby League Team, the 'Esiafi, is ready to jet away tomorrow to the 3rd Women's Rugby League World Cup competition in Australia.
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Reports from Tonga's newspapers, October 22-23, 2008. An English translation summary by Tevita Fonua.
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Belgrade, Serbia
The EU has a single market between member states with common trade policy. Important EU institutions and bodies include the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union, the European Court of Justice and the European Central Bank, among others. - Ivan Simic
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Sydney, Australia
The Tonga Rugby League won its appeal against a court order that banned two NRL stars, Fuifui Moimoi and Taniela Tuiaki from representing Tonga in the 2008 Rugby League World Cup that is currently underway in Australia.
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Noumea, New Caledonia
The World Health Organization WHO and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community SPC have signed a new four-year Memorandum of Understanding MoU designed to improve collaboration between the two organizations and to seek innovative solutions to assist Pacific Island countries and territories to achieve better health outcomes.
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Auckland, New Zealand
Labour is promising to work on getting a free-to-air Pacific Island television channel up and running in New Zealand if it wins the election - a prospect that major broadcasters have been investigating for some time. By Paula Oliver
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Tuesday 28 October 2008
Sydney, Australia
Tonga's Mate Ma'a Tonga, national rugby legue team beat Ireland 22-20 last night at Paramata Stadium, Sydney, Australia.
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Tuesday 28 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The bodies of two newborns found dumped in two separate locations in Tongatapu only one day after the other were identified as a four month foetus and a near-full term baby of eight months gestation at the times of their deaths, the Deputy Police Commander Taniela Faletau confirmed today.
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Monday 27 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's largest squash exporter, Nishi Trading Company Ltd., is targeting to export a total of 1,200 tonnes of squash to Japan and South Korea, a slight increase from their 900 plus tonnes exported last year.
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Monday 27 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga will withdraw its soldiers from Iraq before Christmas, the Commander of the Tonga Defence Services, Brigadier Tau‘aika ‘Uta‘atu confirmed today, in Nuku‘alofa.
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Saturday 25 October 2008
Rome, Italy
Ministers and officials from over 120 governments will meet in Rome next week to decide whether to add two pesticides - endosulfan and tributyl tin compounds - and the industrial chemical chrysotile asbestos to a trade watch list that already contains 39 hazardous substances.
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Saturday 25 October 2008
California, USA
Triathlete Matthew Kaea aims to become the first Tongan to run the Boston marathon - the one marathon that accepts only the fastest athletes.
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Saturday 25 October 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Over $13,000 pa'anga was raised in a charity auction on Thursday night to assist Paumolevuka Tu'i and Mafua Kiokata, the two young men who were left paralysed after being hit by a support vehicle while training for the Tongan Aussie Rules team recently.
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Saturday 25 October 2008
Mangere,New Zealand
A New Zealander of Tongan origins, Daniel ‘Okusitino Jones from Mangere, graduated from the New Zealand Police College in Wellington, New Zealand - one of three Tongan recruits graduating in his class on 17 October.
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