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I wish to suggest that we must slow down the current process, which is aimed at bringing about a radical change to the political system in Tonga by the year 2010. - Rev Dr Ma‘afu Palu

Ko e fehu'i ko 'eni 'oku ha 'i lalo' 'oku ne 'omai 'a e fo'i malie hange tofu pe ko e fakakaukau ki he fakamatala 'a e 'Etita ki he liliu ta'e fakalao koia 'o e fakalea 'o e tu'utu'uni 'a e Falealea 'a ia na'e 'osi kasete'i. Ko e fekumi 'a e fakafofonga (Sue) NZ 'oku 'ikai ke ne maumau'i 'e ia ha Lao he ko 'ene feinga kiha solova'anga 'o 'ene palopalema'. Kapau ko au 'a e fakafofonga NZ ko 'eni' te u fakahko pe 'a e fehu'i tatau ki he PM neongo 'oku 'osi 'i ai 'a e lao 'o e fonua.

Acting Military Commander Colonel Pita Driti has attacked Fiji's largest newspaper The Fiji Times again - and also Fiji Television. He claims both news organisatons are biased against the military.

A sulphuric mix of Tonga's sabbatical laws and last week's volcanic eruption on Hunga Ha'apai that led to the cancellation of Saturday evening's Air New Zealand 767 flight into Fua'amotu International Airport, is causing headaches for Tongan fish exporters who had perishable cargo destined for the USA and Japan. By Mary Lyn Fonua.

A jury this afternoon at the Nuku‘alofa Supreme Court found five men not guilty of sedition charges relating to the riots and destruction of Nuku'lofa, November 16, 2006.

Tonga's Governor of Ha'apai, the Noble Malupo (56) and three other men, reported missing at sea for two days last week, were located by a Royal New Zealand Air Force Orion on Friday.

Modern Tonga was born, as Pacific historians claimed, out of a marriage of convenience between monarchy and Christianity, may I propose that postmodern Tonga should be conceived out of a marriage of necessity between philosophical, cultural, and political motifs and paradoxes which constitute Tonga's political reality. We need to reflect deeply on how to merge the present political reality and the democratic ideals, traditions and post-modernism, culture and politics, monarchy and democracy. Any attempt to create a short-cut solution by unreservedly embracing democracy is, nothing short of political suicide. - Senituli Penitani

The eruption of the tiny volcanic island of Hunga Ha'apai, 62 km away from the capital Nuku'alofa, could be seen glowing on the horizon last night and has become a tourist attraction today with charter boats and flights taking people on short excursions to the area.

A project that aims to develop students' learning by strengthening the capacity of 15 Pacific Islands Ministries of Education to plan and deliver quality basic education, had a regional meeting in Tonga this week.