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Thursday 24 April 2008
Canberra, Australia
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has stepped up the fight against transnational crime in the Asia Pacific region with today's opening of the Micronesia Regional Transnational Crime Unit (TCU).
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Thursday 24 April 2008
USA
Ko e ki'i lave nounou atu pe 'o kau atu he lavelave 'a e kau tangata' mo e kau fefine, 'oku ou ki'i tokanga atu ki he Cpt 'o e US Marine (Mafi 'o Amerika) mo e Cpt 'o e US Army (Tama Foa). 'Oku ou lave'i pe kuo fai e ki'i matavalea he laine. - Siosaia Moimoiangaha
Thursday 24 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
In your Online news article of April 21, 2008; "TBC's political censorship extends to press conferences" 'Inoke Huakau, a political candidate, claimed that the TBC was banning the broadcasting of his campaigning materials because TBC staff were "present" at his press conference. - Siosaia Fatani
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Wednesday 23 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tomorrow, April 24, some of Tonga's 68,000 registered electors, will go to the polls to choose their nine representatives to sit in the Tonga Legislative Assembly, possibly for the next three years. By Mary Lyn Fonua
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Highlights from Tonga's newspapers, April 14-17, 2008. An English translation summary by Tevita Fonua.
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The last Speaker of the House, Hon Tu'iha'angana, lost his Ha'apai seat when Tonga's 29 nobles this morning, April 23, elected their nine representatives to the Tongan Legislative Assembly for 2008-10.
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Tuesday 22 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Twenty-nine Tongan nobles are eligible to go to the polls and elect their nine representatives to the Tongan Legislature tomorrow, Wednesday, at the Palace Office in Nuku'alofa.
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Tuesday 22 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
HM King George Tupou V returned to Tonga on Saturday, April 19 after making a seven days state visit to China to reaffirm and strengthen the foreign relations between the two countries.
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Monday 21 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Both Tongan teams, the Tautahi Gold and Tau'uta Reds, lost to their Fijian and Samoan opponents in the opening round of the 2008 Pacific Cup that kicked off during the weekend.
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Monday 21 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga Defence Services Third Deployment to Iraq is currently serving alongside USA soldiers in a peacekeeping mission after arriving in Baghdad on February 18.
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Monday 21 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
This month's controversial clampdown on political broadcasting imposed by the board and management of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission has been extended to include press conferences.
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Monday 21 April 2008
Paris, France
A message from the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura to mark the 60th celebration of the 2008 Press Freedom day on May 3.
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Sunday 20 April 2008
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
An essential approach to addressing national challenges in the Pacific is through closer regional cooperation, the head of the Asian Development Bank's Pacific Department, Philip Erquiaga, said yesterday.
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Sunday 20 April 2008
Pago Pago, American Samoa
I hope the Government do realize that your actions only benefits and further fertilize the anti-government sentiment in Tonga. No news is good news to some people. To a lot people, the worse that could happens is anticipated when there is no news. To most reasonable human beings, when information is deliberately withheld, something negative and serious is wrong. - Mafi ‘o Amerika Samoa
Friday 18 April 2008
Neiafu, Vava'u
In Neiafu this week eight Tongan business people and community organisers, completed a three-day training program that will help them run better organizations.
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Friday 18 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The IRB Pacific Cup starts today at Churchill Park, Lautoka where the Fiji Warriors meet the Tongan Tautahi Gold, while in Apia the Savai'i Samoa meet the Fiji Barbarians at Marist Stadium.
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Friday 18 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two students from the South Westland Area School in Hari Hari on the West Coast of New Zealand will come to Tonga especially to see the historical Coronation of Tonga's King George Tupou V on August 1.
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Friday 18 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Setaleki Tu'itavake (33) received a suspended sentence of 18 months imprisonment today for the theft of barbed wire and diamond wire, committed in October 2007.
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Thursday 17 April 2008
Neiafu, Vava'u
Developing an International Airport at Vava'u, is something the Tonga government is now considering, but because of the limitations of the outer island runways, they need to consider all the options.
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Wednesday 16 April 2008
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's second domestic airline Chatham Pacific, carrying the Prime Minister and VIPs aboard its 50-seater Convair, made its inaugural flight to Ha'apai and Vava'u on the afternoon of Monday, April 14.

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