Some 638 suspects were arrested and over 500 have been charged by the Tonga Police for arson, theft and other offences relating to their participation in the destruction of the Nuku'alofa business centre on November 16.
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Friday 8 December 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
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Tuesday 5 December 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
As of today, December 5, over 400 suspects have been charged by the Tonga Police for arson, theft and other offences relating to their participation in the destruction of the Nuku'alofa business centre on November 16.
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Wednesday 29 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Police have identified the remains of one of the seven people who are known to have died in the fire that gutted the Shoreline Building set alight by arsonists on November 16.
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Tuesday 28 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Suspects charged with offences relating to their participation in the destruction of the Nuku'alofa business center on November 16 will start appearing in the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court on December 7.
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Tuesday 28 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Twelve days after the destruction of the Nuku'alofa business center on Thursday, November 16, police today confirmed that seven bodies were found at the gutted Shoreline building.
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Thursday 23 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
As of yesterday November 22, the Tonga Police had detained 16 more suspects in relation to the crimes committed on November 16, bringing the total number of detainees to 42.
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Wednesday 22 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Five days after the destruction of the Nuku'alofa business center on Thursday, November 16, police have confirmed that only six bodies have been found and not eight as was previously reported.
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Monday 20 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Surging out of a Pangai Si'i political rally held by some of the Tonga's People's Representatives, on the afternoon of November 16, their excited supporters led by marauding gangs of thieves, thugs and arsonists, ransacked the Nuku'alofa business district. Photos by Pesi Fonua, Linny Folau and Mary Lyn Fonua
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Thursday 16 November 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A rioting crowd has trashed property in central Nuku'alofa leaving the central supermarket Molisi Tonga in a tangled mess of broken glass and the streets smelling of spilled beer as looters joined rioters in a spree of destruction shortly after 3.30 pm today. Story and pictures by Mary Lyn Fonua, Linny Folau and Pesi Fonua
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Wednesday 8 February 2006
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A suitcase containing two kilograms of what is thought to be marijuana was abandoned on the inward carousel at Tonga's Fua'amotu Airport on Saturday, February 4, after an Air Pacific flight from Fiji was selected by customs officers for special scrutiny.
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Thursday 29 December 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Only four people have died on Tonga's roads so far this year - the lowest road toll in three years - but, tragically, in 2005 the victims were children who were hit while crossing the road, while the number of non-fatal road accidents has increased on previous years.
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Friday 19 August 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The home of a Shoreline executive, Joseph Ramanlal, located at 'Anana village near Nuku'alofa, came under an arson attack early this morning, and family members say that a small fire was started by something like a Molotov cocktail that was thrown over the fence and into their doorway.
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Thursday 18 August 2005
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
There were explosions in central Nuku'alofa early this morning as four government vehicles burned in the parking lot of the Revenue Services Division, in a suspected arson attack.
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Tuesday 6 July 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
ve people escaped with minor injuries after a head-on collusion between a car that went out of control and a stationary taxi that was parking on Hala Vuna, Nuku'alofa, in the early hours of this morning.
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Tuesday 30 March 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Three young men died and two were injured when their car hit a power pole and slammed into a tree late on Saturday night, outside Tonga's Huatolitoli Prison.
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Saturday 30 November 2002
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Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
The international fight against child pornography on the internet has come to Tonga, after it was revealed that six child pornography domains on the Internet are registered to a Nuku‘alofa address. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 17, no. 3, November 2002.
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Saturday 30 November 2002
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Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
Tonga’s Friendly Islands image has been marred by the increasing number of violent deaths in the country during the past two years. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 17, no. 3, November 2002.
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Friday 30 August 2002
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Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
The last time a Tongan solo-mother of five, saw her 17 year old son, who is doing time for burglary, she was horrified. The inmate called her on May 8 to come to the Vaiola Hospital, in Nuku‘alofa, where Prison authorities had taken him for emergency treatment for severe burns. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 17, no. 2, August 2002.
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Friday 30 August 2002
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Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
Last year, the Tonga Prisons Department began sending children between 14-16 years old to ‘Atā, a small remote island, an hour by boat off the east coast of Tongatapu (not to be confused with ‘Ata Is. to the south). From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 17, no. 2, August 2002.
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Friday 30 August 2002
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga
FROM OUR ARCHIVES. How does Tonga’s law treat young offenders while protecting the Rights of the Child? Matangi Tonga discovers that Tonga’s children are exposed to the full extent of adult punishments —from whippings to incarceration, while the youngest offenders might suffer both before being isolated from society and taken to serve long terms on a tiny offshore prison island. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 17, no. 2, August 2002.
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