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Tonga's former Chief Justice, Hon. Justice Gordon Ward, has been made a knight bachelor by Queen Elizabeth II in her 2012 New Year's honours list, for his services as the Chief Justice for the Turks and Caicos Islands, and his judiciary service for the Commonwealth.

Matangi Tonga Online readers around the world send in their holiday photos, with Best Wishes and Season's Greetings to one and all.

HRH Princess Angelika Latūfuipeka Halaevalu Mata'aho Napua-Okalani Tuku'aho graduated with a Master of Business degree from the Australian National University's College of Business & Economics, Canberra, on December 15.

Andrea Moala (12) from Alaki in Tongatapu won the Digicel Star 2011 season 2 singing competition, during the final held at the Dateline Hotel on December 19, winning a trip to the Caribbean.

Lord Lasike, the Speaker of the Tonga Parliament, who is facing charges in the Supreme Court, has allegedly defied the conditions of a court order and breached his bail when he traveled to the USA to get married and has not returned to Tonga.

A large group of women from Australia have arrived in Tonga to celebrate five Fakafetongi Koloa events with women's groups in Vava'u, that will likely result in over $234,000 worth of exchanges.

Christmas carols were performed in central Nuku'alofa on Thursday night December 1, in a special program organized by the Sisu koe Fetu'ungingila Church Group.

The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the White Ribbon Day 25 November, was marked in Tonga as part of a campaign to end violence against women in the world.

The new French Ambassador to Tonga HE Mr Gilles Montagnier presented his Letters of Credence to HM King George Tupou V at the Royal Palace in Nuku'alofa, on Tuesday, November 22.