Reforms in countries, like Tonga, and some other Pacific Island countries have produced administrations with no clear and coherent national visions and who are unable to work as a team, regional public service representatives heard in Tonga this week. By Pesi Fonua.
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Wednesday 26 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Sunday 16 October 2011
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Melbourne, Australia
Fijian hip hop crew, BSQ are set to get the crowds jumping at this year's Fest'Napuan music festival in Vanuatu as the winners of the Pacific Break 2011 competition after their slick dance track'Rue Ele Ele remix' was selected as the winning song.
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Tuesday 11 October 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
CHIEF Inspector Pelenatita Fe'ao (40) of the Tonga Police has been selected by the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands (RAMSI) as their new Coordinator of the Pacific Islands Contingents in Honiara.
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Friday 7 October 2011
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Canberra, Australia
The Commander of the Tonga Defence Services, Brigadier General Tau'aika 'Uta'atu is currently on a visit to Australia to attend the Annual Defence Program Meeting to be held on October 7-8 in Canberra.
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Wednesday 7 September 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Prime Minister Lord Tu'ivakano leads a 13-member delegation to the 42nd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting that was opened in Auckland today, September 7.
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Wednesday 17 August 2011
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Auckland, New Zealand
Three people who had attempted to arrange the sale of several hundred kilograms of methamphetamine that were alleged to be stockpiled in Tonga have been arrested today, August 17, by the Auckland Police Drug Squad.
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Tuesday 16 August 2011
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Sydney, Australia
Tonga is seeking a US$26.9 million grant from the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to support the installation of a broadband cable network for Tonga next year.
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Monday 11 July 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Jonah Lomu, the Rugby Legend, arrives in Tonga tomorrow for two days Tuesday and Wednesday June 13-14, as part of a delegation traveling with the New Zealand Minister for Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully on his 2011 Pacific Mission annual tour of the Pacific, this year to Tonga, Samoa, Cook Islands and Niue.
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Friday 1 July 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Minister of Labour has been warned by New Zealand officials that the number of RSE runaways in New Zealand must be reduced soon or Tonga may not be able to send seasonal workers in future.
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Saturday 25 June 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A tour of the Pacific islands by US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Kurt Campbell, will include Tonga on June 27.
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Saturday 25 June 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tonga government has rejected an application by the Fijian Government, requesting for the extradition of Ratu Tevita Ululakeba Mara to Fiji.
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Thursday 16 June 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tongas Crown Law office has received the extradition application from the Fijian Government calling for the extradition of Lieutenant Colonel Ratu Tevita Mara to Fiji.
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Friday 10 June 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Fiji's Lieutenant Colonel Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara has left Tonga on a commercial flight for Australia, apparently on Thursday, June 9.
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Tuesday 31 May 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Since the end of the Cold War, the larger Western powers, the US and UK, started to lose interest in the Pacific. From a Western security perspective, the day-to-day management of the region was handed over to Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately, in an increasingly multipolar world, all sorts of new foreign policy options are available. By Cleo Paskal.
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Friday 27 May 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Lieutenant Colonel Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, one of the four Fijian senior military officers who with Commodore Bainimarama overthrew the democratically elected government of Fiji on 5 December 2006 has confessed that what they did was illegal.
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Tuesday 24 May 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
New Caledonia's accession to a full membership status in the Pacific Islands Forum was top in the agenda of a New Caledonian contingent to the Forum Trade Ministers meeting in Vava'u from May 18-19.
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Tuesday 24 May 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
An application by the Fiji government for the extradition of Lieutenant Colonel Ratu Tevita Mara back to Fiji to face a sedition charge was received by the Tongan government yesterday, May 23 Busby Kautoke, Tonga's Chief Secretary and the Secretary to Cabinet confirmed this afternoon, May 24.
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Monday 16 May 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
In a brewing war of words with Fiji's leader, Tonga's Prime Minister indicated today that Tonga was not offering judicial immunity to Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, stating that "the King's offer of hospitality to his kinsman" should not be used by Fiji's Commodore for political gain.
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Monday 16 May 2011
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Suva, Fiji
In a strongly worded statement this morning Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama accused Tonga of a conspiracy in extracting Ratu Tevita Mara by the Royal Tongan Navy Patrol Boat, Savea last week from within Fiji's territorial waters.
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Friday 13 May 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Pacific Trade Ministers will meet in Vava'u next week to discuss regional work programs, including progress on the PACER Plus negotiations and efforts to improve the trade facilitation between Forum Island countries with Australia and New Zealand.
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