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Monday 26 November 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
HM King George Tupou V left Tonga on Saturday for the United Kingdom on an extended trip that will keep him away from home for two months.
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Monday 26 November 2007
Brussels, Belgium
The ITUC and Global Union Federations are participating in a global initiative to stop violence against women, running from 25 November (UN Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women) until UN Human Rights Day on 10 December.
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Monday 26 November 2007
'Okalani, Nu'usila
'Oku lahi e ngaahi me'a ia 'oku mahino mai he me'a 'a e 'Eiki Minisita. 'Uluaki ta 'oku 'ikai ko e palopalema 'a e tu'utu'uni huluhulu ngaue pe guidelines. 'Oku ou tui 'oku 'osi 'i ai e me'a pehe 'a e potungaue pea mo e ngaahi me'a faka'efika. Pea ne toe me'a mai 'o pehe ne fakaha ange 'e he pule 'o e TBC 'oku 'I ai e 'asenita fakapolitikale 'ene kau ngaue pea koena ko e taha ena 'ene kau 'ofisa ma'olunga Nanise Fifita 'oku ne toe filingaua he fokotu'utu'u fa'u guidelines 'a e pule'anga. - Pola Loiti
Monday 26 November 2007
USA
'Oku 'ikai ke fai ha ofo ia 'o hange ko e fakamatala 'a e tangata faifatongia koia ma'a Tonga ko Chief Justice Anthory Ford. - Joshua Moimoiangaha
Sunday 25 November 2007
Kampala, Uganda
India's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, has been selected the new Commonwealth Secretary-General slated to take over the reins of office on 1 April 2008.
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Saturday 24 November 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
For your information Mr. Koester, Tonga Broadcasting Commission - TBC, does not have anything to hide and again I would like to enlighten you that Tonga Broadcasting Commission was and is still a commercially operated business giving free service to the public.
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Saturday 24 November 2007
Neiafutahi,Neiafu, Vava'u Lahi
I read in Matangi Tonga and other publications about the news conference pertaining to objective and balanced reporting. I am not surprised by the recalcitrant attitude of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission Chief News Editor towards the Minister of Information's planned journalist guideline for government media outlets. - Heinz Koester
Saturday 24 November 2007
Kampala, Uganda
he Queen's speech at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Uganda, 23 November 2007.
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Saturday 24 November 2007
Suva, Fiji
Transparency International Fiji would like to support NGOs calling for budget transparency. Transparency International (Fiji) has always supported open budgeting and believes in a consultative process that involves members of the public and other key stakeholders.
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Friday 23 November 2007
Kampala, Uganda
The Commonwealth Minsiterial Action Group on the Harare Declaration (CMAG) met at the Serena Hotel, Kampala on 22 November 2007. The meeting was chaired by Hon Michael Frendo, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malta. Other members of the Group who attended the meeting were Hon Mohlabi Kenneth Tsekoa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lesotho, Hon Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, Hon Bernard Membe, Foreign Minister of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon Samuel Abal, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Trade and Immigration of Papua New Guinea, Rt. Hon David Miliband, UK Foreign Secretary, Hon Helena Guergis, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada, and Hon Dato' Joseph Salang, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia. A statement was read out on behalf of the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of St. Lucia.
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Friday 23 November 2007
'Okalani, Nu'usila
'I he 'eku tohi ni 'e fai ai ha sio fakalukufua ki he anga e tauhi Kulii Le'o (Watchdog) 'a e Pule'anga Tonga, pehe ki he to'onga e fanga kulii taautaha ke tau sio ange pe 'oku hu'u ki fee 'a e fanga Kulii Le'o he teuaki atu ko 'eni ki hono fakahoko e fakalelei fakapolitikale he ta'u 'e ua ka hoko mai. - Kitekei‘aho Tu‘akalau
Thursday 22 November 2007
Kampala, Uganda
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM, will be officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in Kampala, Uganda, on Friday. Tonga was represented at the Commonwealth Foreign Affairs Ministers' Meeting by the Tongan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, HE Dr Ngongo Kioa.
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Thursday 22 November 2007
Manila, Philippines
The Asian Development Bank ADB and the governments of Japan and Australia are providing $88 million in financing to support the development of Samoa's power sector.
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Thursday 22 November 2007
Neiafutahi,Neiafu, Vava'u
My dearest Ms. K. Tohi, You are correct, I, my family and all of Vava'u wish to watch Television Tonga in Vava'u, and not only that, it is our right to watch Television Tonga in Vava'u Lahi. - Heinz Koester
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Savelino Ma'asi Mafi (20) is the 2007 Dux of Tonga's 'Ahopanilolo Technical College, which specialises in hospitality and commercial cookery.
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Law
Wednesday 21 November 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Highlighting mediation as a process of settling disputes out of court has been the biggest achievement of Tonga's first Law Week, according to Tonga's Chief Justice Anthony Ford.
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Wednesday 21 November 2007
Utah, USA
Where else in the world but with credulous Tongans could he be deemed respectable? Please Mr Harder, Tonga is now addicted to fatty mutton flaps, which no civilized Kiwi dares to eat. Tonga does not need another rejected product from New Zealand.
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Wednesday 21 November 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Koester in his article stated that TBC Directors and Management ordered the broadcast of Fiji 1 TV program on TV-Vava'u and he also stated the reasons why he does not like TBC's airing Fiji One in Vava'u.
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Tuesday 20 November 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's $118 million loan from China, has to be the sorriest loan application in the world; coming as a request from a poverty stricken country to a nation whose people we have ill-treated, the Kalonikali reports on November 15, quoting 'Eseta Fusitu'a, the Chief Secretary to Government and Cabinet. Highlights from Tonga's newspapers, November 12-15, 2007. An English translation summary by Tevita Fonua.
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Tuesday 20 November 2007
USA
My eighty-year-old mother, who is a Tongan citizen and also a US citizen, was on her way to Fiji from Tonga on an Air Pacific flight of November 10, 2007 at 9:am. She checked in her luggage and paid her taxes and she was on her way to the waiting area to board her flight when she was approached by Tongan official (female) demanding money. - Lucia Siulangapo

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