The opportunity for thousands of Tongans to find seasonal employment in New Zealand for seven months annually could become a reality as early as May, according to Sione Maumau, the acting secretary of Tonga's Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries today.
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Friday 2 March 2007
Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Friday 16 February 2007
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Wellington, New Zealand
With the Solomon Islands claiming Australia is a meddling regional bully, defence ties with Fiji cut following the fourth military coup in 19 years and the state of emergency poised to be extended in Tonga, John Howard has his hands full in the Pacific, The Age reports.
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Wednesday 24 January 2007
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The Tongan government is still determined to host the 2007 Pacific Islands Forum Meeting later this year, despite the November 16 destruction of the Nuku'alofa central business district, during riots which also damaged the new $3 million conference hall built for the meeting.
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Monday 22 January 2007
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Auckland, New Zealand
It is important for for New Zealand politically and economically to be involved in the reconstruction of Nuku'alofa, the Chairman of the New Zealand Pacific Business Council, Gilbert Ullrich, told representatives from 12 New Zealand companies in a meeting today in Auckland.
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Friday 22 December 2006
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Suva, Fiji
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is to take up the position of interim chair of the Pacific Islands Forum, following the military takeover of Fiji...s democratically elected government of Laisenia Qarase.
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Monday 18 December 2006
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Suva, Fiji
The Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum, Greg Urwin, said that the position of the Prime Minister of Fiji Qarase as the Chairman of the Pacific Forum is under consideration. Speaking in Suva on December 15, the Secretary General also expressed his deep regret on the over-throwing of Prime Minister Qarase's democratically elected government of Fiji by Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama, the Commander of the Royal Fijian Military Force.
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Thursday 7 December 2006
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Wellington, New Zealand
New Zealand has rejected Australia's latest proposal for a common currency, with the Minister of Finance Micahel Cullen saying it was never a consideration.
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Friday 1 December 2006
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Suva, Fiji
Fiji's military has denied outright of a breakthrough in mediation talks in New Zealand yesterday.
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Wednesday 15 November 2006
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Suva, Fiji
For the fist time since the United Nations began releasing its Human Development report, Tonga has displaced Samoa as the island with the highest rate of human development in the Pacific.
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Monday 13 November 2006
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Apia, Samoa
Miss Cook Islands, Miss Krystina Elizabeth Kauvai (19) was crowned, Miss South Pacific Pageant 2006 in Apia, Samoa, on Saturday night.
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Tuesday 7 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Miss Tonga, Sina Nauahi (18) will compete in this year's Miss South Pacific Pageant on November 11 in Apia, Samoa.
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Wednesday 1 November 2006
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Apia, Samoa
Making its first footprint in the Pacific Islands with the launch of its new GSM mobile network in Samoa today, a new provider, Digicel, aimed to make an impression that won't be lost on the shores of even the smallest islands, calling this the start of a "Pan-Pacific rollout of state of the art communications."
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Monday 30 October 2006
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Manukau, New Zealand
The recent announcement by the New Zealand Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Helen Clark, at the Pacific Islands Forum in Fiji, of a new seasonal labour scheme for workers from six Pacific Islands countries, was welcomed by the New Zealand Pacific Business Council (NZPBC).
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Monday 16 October 2006
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Waitakere, New Zealand
Tongan-born Pes Fa'aui has received one of New Zealand's highest bravery awards.
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Thursday 24 August 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga's bid to host the 2006 Forum Pacific Island Leaders Meeting in October is fading away.
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Wednesday 23 August 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Tonga has today requested a postponement of the Pacific Forum meeting it was to host in October, because of concern over the increasingly frail health of the King of Tonga.
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Friday 30 June 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The flags of the Aboriginals and the Torres Strait Islanders will be on display at the Australian High Commission, Nuku'alofa, next week to mark the National Aboriginal and Islanders Day of Celebration, NAIDOC.
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Thursday 29 June 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
There will be very little change to the U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Pacific, a US foreign policy advisor, Charles B. Salmon Jr., told a Tongan audience in a public lecture on June 28 at the University of the South Pacific 'Atele Campus. Photos by Pesi Fonua
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Friday 2 June 2006
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Neiafu, Vava'u
Key people from Pacific Island Forum countries, meeting in Vava'u this week to look at how to develop more competitive strategies for investment in the Pacific islands, were reminded not to forget their own people abroad as important potential investors. Photos by Sione Vuki and Dianne Schulz
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Monday 29 May 2006
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Tokyo, Japan
Japan's Emperor Akihito received Pacific leaders including Tonga's Hon. Dr Feleti Sevele, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo for PALM 2006.
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