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Friday 18 September 2009 10:47am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Today the Tonga Legislative Assembly considered ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. It voted 18 to 1 with 4 abstentions to not ratify CEDAW at this time. The Legislative Assembly believed that to ratify CEDAW would cut across our cultural and social heritage that makes up the Tongan way of life. It would require the creation of fundamental changes for every Tongan citizen to a way of life and social organisation that has sustained Tonga to date.
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Thursday 17 September 2009 3:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Global Integrity Dialogue workshop held August 13 in Nuku'alofa was a robust debate over the key governance and anti-corruption challenges facing Tonga as well as a productive brainstorming session on opportunities for reform. Participants, who included a range of stakeholders from government, civil society, the media, and the donor community, emphasized several issues that could form the basis for follow-on action as "must-do" governance reforms. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 September 2009 8:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Police Band has cancelled a trip to the Gauteng International Military Tattoo Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa this month following the South African Defence Force strike two weeks ago. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 September 2009 6:32pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : 'Alani Vaomotou of Vaotu'u appeared in the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court this morning charged with two offences of manslaughter by negligence and drunken driving that killed his passenger in 2007. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 September 2009 4:40pm
Washington,USA : The latest World Development Report finds that although many countries in the East Asia and Pacific region are vulnerable to climate change, developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty if they receive financial and technical assistance from high-income countries. Premium content -
Wednesday 16 September 2009 3:00pm
Salt Lake City, USA : PR 'Akilisi Pohiva was asking the wrong question (Ashika passengers and cargo insured...15 Sep., 2009) in the September 10 Legislative Assembly's inquiries into the ship's sinking. -Sione A. Mokofisi Premium content -
Tuesday 15 September 2009 9:50pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new interim inter-island passenger vessel for Tonga is expected to be in service soon, to replace the sunken ferry MV Princess Ashika. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 September 2009 8:51pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An allocation of $200,000 was approved by the Tongan Parliament yesterday, September 14, toward the air fares of the Tongan contingent to the 8th South Pacific Mini Games at the Cook Islands from September 21 to October 2. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 September 2009 8:42pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The number of murders and suicides cases in Tonga this year, has already surpassed the total figures for 2008 said the Acting Police Commander, Sione Talanoa this morning. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 September 2009 12:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga High School Girls Football team dominated the Tonga Football Association's Under-13 and Under-15 competition by winning both divisions in last weekend's finals. Premium content -
Tuesday 15 September 2009 11:43am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The sunken ferry, MV Princess Ashika was insured and so was the cargo and the passengers, the Minister of Finance, Hon. Afu'alo Matoto assured the Tongan parliament on Thursday, September 10 during the House's question time. Premium content -
Monday 14 September 2009 6:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Sione Talia'uli (30), appeared at the Fasi Magistrate's Court this morning charged with the murder of his four-year-old son, at Popua last week. Premium content -
Monday 14 September 2009 6:18pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Crown has yet to decide if it should apply to re-open the criminal sedition case against four People's Representatives of 2006 who were acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy by the Appeal Court of Tonga on Wednesday, September 9. Premium content -
Sunday 13 September 2009 5:32pm
Canberra, Australia : The first group of Tongan seasonal workers employed under the Pacific Seasonal Workers Pilot Scheme (PSWPS) departed to Tonga on Thursday, 10 September 2009 after the completion of seven (7) months employment at horticultural farms in Australia namely Victoria and Queensland. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 11:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Five People's Representatives in the Tongan parliament in 2006 are acquitted of an indictment on a joint charge of seditious conspiracy because of inadequate evidence by the Crown, in a decision released by Tonga's Appeal Court on Wednesday. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 7:07pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's political reform is precisely a reforming of the composition of the parliament, Dr Malakai Koloamatangi, a Political Science Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, told members of the Tongan media on Wednesday, September 9.1 comment Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 6:46pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Katei Taufa (31), who stabbed his wife to death in Vaini on February 21, was sentenced to life imprisonment today at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 6:10pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's newest media company, BroadCom-TMN Group launched a new FM 88.1 radio station and television production unit on Saturday, September 5 at Ngele'ia. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 4:50pm
Sydney, Australia : The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes a decision by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to conduct a war crimes investigation into the murder of five Australian-based journalists, known as the Balibo Five, during Indonesia's invasion of East Timor in 1975. Premium content -
Friday 11 September 2009 10:17am
Suva, Fiji : Brad Pitt drinks it, Barack Obama has been photographed with it and Paris Hilton sips it through a straw to save her lipstick. Premium content
