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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Monday 11 July 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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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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Friday 11 March 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Australia's Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Hon. Richard Marles, visited Tonga on March 11 and affirmed Australia's support would continue under Tonga's new government.
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Monday 28 February 2011
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's 10th military contingent has deployed to the Regional Assistance Mission to the Solomon Islands RAMSI, leaving Tonga on Friday, February 25.
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Thursday 20 January 2011
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Nadi, Fiji
A Qantas Boeing 744 flying from Sydney to Los Angeles on December 18 was forced to make an emergency landing at Nadi International Airport at 8:21pm when one of its engines failed and hour out of Nadi.
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Saturday 4 December 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga Customs officers crushed 13,272 bottles of Australian Yellowtail Wine at the Nishi Quarry, in Nuku'alofa on the morning of December 3.
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Friday 1 October 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's Christchurch Earthquake Appeal fund, which collected $887,055 pa'anga, was handed over to Christchurch Major Bob Parker in Christchurch today, October 1, by Tonga's Prime Minister Hon Dr Feleti Sevele.
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Thursday 9 September 2010
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Visiting Tonga in early September an award-winning writer and geopolitical expert, Cleo Paskal, is looking closely at Tonga's political reform process in a country she says is "a remarkable, spectacular place" that is now in a unique situation of having to think through many of the fundamentals of an electoral process from scratch. - by Mary Lyn Fonua
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Saturday 28 August 2010
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Manukau City, New Zealand
Prime Minister John Key met several young missionaries from Pacific Island nations yesterday (August 20), when he visited the new Mormon Missionary Training Centre in South Auckland. Missionaries from Samoa, Tonga, Kiribati and New Zealand joined with others from the United States and other countries in welcoming the Prime Minister to the training centre.
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