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Wednesday 9 June 2004
Nuku'‘alofa, Tonga
Three youths aged between 18-21 years were arrested by the police on June 5 and charged with armed robbery of two gas stations and of stealing a car on the night of JUNE 1.
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Wednesday 9 June 2004
Nuku'‘alofa, Tonga
Mr Justice Ford on June 8 dismissed charges of theft and house breaking after prosecution witnesses failed to appear in court for the trial.
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Wednesday 9 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tongan Nobleman Havea Tu'‘iha'ateiho (72) died at Vaiola Hospital, Nuku'alofa, on June 5.
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Wednesday 9 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The domestic air service between Tongatapu and Vava‘u was restored at mid-day today when a DC3 aircraft of Pion Air left with 23 passengers on its maiden flight to Vava‘u.
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Saturday 5 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The ‘Ikale Tahi's hope in 2004 to elevate itself from the bottom of the Tri-Nation Series rank, was shattered again today at Teufaiva Stadium when they lost 26-27 to Fiji.
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Friday 4 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The 'Ikale Tahi team to meet Fiji at Teufaiva Stadium tomorrow, June 5 at 4 pm was announced today by coach Viliami 'Ofahengaue, to be captained by 'Aleki Lutui assisted 'Elisi Vunipola.
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Thursday 3 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tongan national rugby coach Willy 'Ofahengaue said that on Friday he will announce the 'Ikale Tahi team to play Fiji on Saturday.
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Thursday 3 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Fijian National Rugby Team arrived in Tonga this morning and their coach Wayne Pivac announced the Fijian team that will meet the 'Ikale Tahi on Saturday, June 5.
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Thursday 3 June 2004
Geneva, Switzerland
The first ever World Blood Donor Day will be celebrated globally on 14 June 2004. The day will kick-start a campaign called "Blood, a gift for life", which will be launched in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Thursday 3 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Education donors from around the world took part in a Joint Government of Tonga and Aid Donor Education Conference in Nuku'alofa from May 31- June 3.
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Wednesday 2 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga might possibly have a new domestic air service operating by June 9, but nobody knows for sure how or when a new service can become operational.
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Wednesday 2 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Masked men armed with rifles seized over $3,000 pa'anga last night in two armed hold-ups of gas stations on Tongatapu.
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Tuesday 1 June 2004
Federal Way-WA, USA
I saw a story in the May 31 edition of the Tacoma News Tribune. The story was headlined "Violent death, no justice for Peace Corps volunteer". The story written by TNT reporter Les Blumenthal revisits the stabbing death of Peace Corps Volunteer Deborah Gardner in 1976 in Tonga. The case has resurfaced in a book "American Taboo,'' written by Philip Weiss. - Mike Lane
Tuesday 1 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Prof. David V. Burley, with 17 students and an assistant from the Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, visiting Tonga in June destined for Vava'u to carry out some excavation work to ascertain the first settlement of Vava'u by ancient Tongans.
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Tuesday 1 June 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
There was not a Member in the Tongan parliament who understood what the King of Tonga meant when he said in his speech from the Throne to open the Tongan Parliament on Thursday May 27, that a group of foreign investors would be arriving in Tonga this month to invest hundreds of millions of dollars. -From the House, Minute no. 1, Monday 31 May 2004.
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Thursday 27 May 2004
Sydney, Australia
I read an article in the Matangi Tonga Online of 27 May 2004, and was overwhelmed and proud to be Tongan but also because my mother's family comes from Hihifo-Pangai, Haapai when I read about the heroic efforts of the people of Pangai, going to the rescue the 450 passengers stranded at Hakauloa Reef on the ferry MV Pulupaki in the early hours of 26 May 2004. -Andrew Fifita J.P.
Thursday 27 May 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The people of Pangai who went out to sea in their boats in the dark and worked all night to rescue about 450 passengers from Tonga's grounded inter-island ferry MV Pulupaki yesterday deserve the highest praise, says one grateful passenger who finally reached her destination safely.
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Thursday 27 May 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A group of Tongan People's Representatives are calling for the resignation of Tonga's Prime Minister, Prince 'Ulukalala Lavaka Ata, after boycotting the opening of the Tonga Legislative Assembly by the King this morning.
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Wednesday 26 May 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
About 450 people were rescued in small boats, after Tonga's inter-island ferry ran aground on the Hakauloa reef in the early hours of Wednesday morning, about a mile outside the Pangai Harbour in the Ha'apai group.
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Monday 24 May 2004
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongan Nobleman Hon. Fakafanua Kinikinilau Lelea 'a Fafine was laid to rest today at the Vakataumai burial ground at Ma'ufanga.
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