Niuafo'ou, also known as "Tin Can Mail Island" accessed the World Wide Web www, for the first time on Sunday, August 31.
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Thursday 4 September 2008
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Niuafo'ou, Tonga

Thursday 21 August 2008
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Niuatoputapu,Tonga
The remote island of Niuatoputapu in northern Tonga accessed the World Wide Web for the first time on Wednesday August 13.

Monday 2 June 2008
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's King George Tupou V will visit each of the outer islands of Vava'u, Ha'apai, 'Eua and the two Niuas following his coronation in August.

Friday 18 April 2008
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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.

Thursday 4 January 2007
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Neiafu, Vava'u
The 2007 Vava'u Festival will kick off on January 26 with a Triathlon in the morning, and a display of Culture and Art in Neiafu during the rest of the day.

Thursday 7 December 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga government has increased its subsidies to the shipping and air services between the two Niuas and, Vava'u and Tongatapu, for the rest of the 2006-07 financial year.

Monday 30 October 2006
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Neiafu, Vava'u
More parliamentarians are expected to arrive in Vava'u this week to participate in the annual inspection tour of the group, which runs from October 24 to November 3.

Thursday 19 October 2006
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Neiafu, Vava'u
Thousands of people in Vava'u gathered to hear HM King Siaosi Tupou V at the largest church service ever held there in recent times. Photos and story by Dianne Schultz

Wednesday 18 October 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fine handicrafts from the remote island of Niuafo‘ou offered at a two day Trade Fair that opened in Nuku'alofa today, are being quickly snapped up by an appreciative public.

Monday 2 October 2006
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Neiafu, Vava'u
A Tonga government policy restricting the number of whale watching boats to two boats per licensed Whale Watching operator is causing frustration among some of Tonga's pioneer whale watching operators in Vava'u, who say that the policy is unfair and restricts their growth, while allowing in amateurs. Story and photos by Pesi Fonua

Tuesday 22 August 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A freak tornado struck three vessels linked together, in a search and rescue mission in Ha'apai last Friday that nearly ended in tragedy for 35 crewmen on board.

Monday 7 August 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Niua Foundation in a project to set up a computer laboratory for Niuatoputapu High School is sending six new personal computers to the isolated northern island.

Thursday 22 June 2006
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Neiafu, Vava'u
A new ferry for inter-island transportation, a two day Defensive driving course was conducted by the Vava'u Chief of Police, Pesalili Kailahi and more of the latest news from Vava‘u. By Dianne Schultz

Tuesday 9 May 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Niu'ui Hospital in Ha'apai may be declared unsafe for patients, following the May 4 earthquake that has damaged rooms, and has left the hospital without essential support services.

Thursday 13 April 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Surveillance of the Vava‘u waterways by the Tonga Customs Department will be given a speed boost with the arrival of a new speedboat this month.

Tuesday 4 April 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Rival student groups who clashed in Vava‘u, at the weekend, damaging church property, joined a community reconciliation meeting today in Neiafu.

Monday 3 April 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Clashes between students from rival church schools in Vava‘u erupted in the early hours of Sunday, April 2, with gangs smashing windows and damaging church property in Neiafu.

Wednesday 15 March 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Residents of the scattered Ha‘apai islands in central Tonga at the best of times find it difficult to make wireless contact with the outside world, but on February 26, Ha‘apai made history when an Amateur Radio Operator, Paul Kidd of Lifuka spoke to astronaut, Bill McArthur of the International Space Station as it passed over Tonga. By Pesi Fonua

Monday 6 February 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The body of Tessa Marie Horan (24) the US Peace Corps volunteer who died last week after being attacked by a shark in Vava'u, will be flown back home to the United States tomorrow, February 7.

Thursday 2 February 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A US Peace Corps Volunteer, Tessa Horan (24), died in Vava'u yesterday evening, February 1 after losing a leg in a tragic shark attack in the water off the village of Tu'anuku.
Pesalili Kailahi, the Neiafu Police Commander, said that the attack took place about 6 pm but the police were not notified until about 8 pm.
