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Friday 10 August 2007 11:48am
New York, USA : The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) - an international network of more than 2,500 non-governmental organizations advocating for a fair, effective and independent Court - urged governments to ratify or accede to the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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Thursday 9 August 2007 1:33pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The reform model proposed for the new Tongan parliament will have more Cabinet Ministers than all other Members of Parliament combined, allowing the Prime Minister and the King to appoint probably 15 or even up to 19 ministers in a 26 member House. Premium content -
Thursday 9 August 2007 12:56pm
Reservoir, Victoria,Australia : 'Oku ou tali e kole tokoni mei Samoa pule'i 'e 'Amelika. Neongo 'oku pehe 'e he Mafi 'o Samoa Meleke ko e tangata malohi ia he fika talu 'ene tupu. Mafi na'e 'ikai ke tonu e mo'oni fakafika 'a ho'o kui ki he tanaki e ½ mo e ½ 'o tatau ki he 2. 'E tonu kapau ko e 'uhinga fakafananga, pe fakapunake pe ko e 'uhinga fakaoli pe, ka ko e fakafika 'oku laui miliona e maile hono va mama'o pea moe tonu. 'Oku 'i ai pe 'a e founga fakafika ia ki hono tanaki 'o e ½ mo e ½ 'o tatau ki he 2. Ko e ki'i fakaofiofi 'eni ki ai: Ko e 'uhinga hono tanaki e ½ mo e ½ 'o Taha he 'oku tefito e fika 'a mamani 'i he fo'i fika koia ko e 10. Fakamolemole kake ki'i 'alu ki he fale 'o e 'ilo 'o ki'i fakamoleki hao taimi he fekumi ki he mo'oni mo e tonu kae tukua 'e nofo lata he tokua mo e fananga. - Sunia Mafile‘o Latu -
Wednesday 8 August 2007 4:31pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A new Ricoh Showroom and Technology centre was officially opened in Nuku'alofa by the Speaker of the Tongan Parliament, Hon. Tu'iha'angana at the Maile I Plaza, last night, August 7. Premium content -
Wednesday 8 August 2007 9:23am
Oregon,USA : The thing that attracted us to Tonga was the Love we felt from total strangers. People that would go the extra mile to help in any way they could. We saw families supporting families, helping in each other's plantations and what ever else needed. - Cliff Johnston -
Tuesday 7 August 2007 4:59pm
Pago Pago, American Samoa : Ka 'oku 'i ai ha'o ki'i ha mahino 'au ki he fakahoha'a 'a Sunia Mafile'o Latu mei 'Aositelelia, pea ke tokoni mai he 'oku ou fiu hono fulifulihi mo e 'ikai pe ha mai ha maama pe 'uhinga 'oku taumu'a ki fe. Ko e toe pango lahi ko'ena 'oku pe he 'e Sunia 'e toe hoko atu 'ene tohi. - Sione Lousiale Kava -
Tuesday 7 August 2007 3:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Mele 'Amanaki, the Secretary General, of Tonga's Public Service Association, has been dismissed from her government post in a disciplinary action over her engagement in political activities. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 August 2007 12:01pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tineka Scott, serving with the New Zealand Police in Tonga, made a catch on Saturday that could put her name in the world record books. "It was never going to get away," said Tineka, after landing a 38.4 kg Giant Trevally. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 August 2007 11:30am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Debates on the Votes of various government ministries would have been a highlight of the budget debate in the House on June 27, but unfortunately it became just a matter of procedure to pass the votes. In the end the last three ministry votes were just lumped together and voted on at once. Premium content -
Tuesday 7 August 2007 9:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : "We the undersigned mothers, fathers and our families acknowledge with honesty and humility: ... That we have been apathetic in relation to political issues because for 131 years the Royal House of Moheofo has provided for our families a peaceful and orderly Tonga." - Salamo Fulivai. -
Tuesday 7 August 2007 5:37am
Suva, Fiji : The Government of Japan continues to provide development assistance to rural sectors, which benefits villages, as well as public organization in the Kingdom of Tonga. This time, five villages and one hospital will celebrate the opening of new water supply systems and provision of new staff quarters. These projects were funded under Japan...s Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) programme. Premium content -
Monday 6 August 2007 7:06pm
Reservoir , Victoria,Australia : 'Oku ou tui ko e fa'ahinga fakalelei 'oku totonu ke fei mo fakahoko ki hotau ki'i fonua ko e kole kia 'Akilisi Pohiva ke ha'u ia 'o Palemia. He neongo e lelei 'a e ngaue fakapolitikale 'a e Palemia ka 'oku 'ikai ke lelei 'ene ngaue 'oku totonu ke lelei, 'a e ngaue fakatemokalati. - Manu tali ui mei Fanga -
Monday 6 August 2007 6:00pm
USA : I was reading the letter entitled 'We want greater freedom' and again was baffled by the logorrhea (though I must admit it is a bit tidier than his counterpart from the land down-under who had written a few letters ago). Anyhow, it has become wearisome listening to the regurgitating arguments/complaints/crying of the pro-temo's. Premium content -
Monday 6 August 2007 4:53pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The approval by parliament for a Tripartite Committee to continue with Tonga's proposed political reform was an unwise decision, according to 'Inoke Hu'akau, the president of the Lo'au Research Society, who believes that using politics and economics to spearhead the reform has been the wrong approach and that a clear social objective should have been set first. By Pesi Fonua Premium content -
Sunday 5 August 2007 8:03am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Several options were carefully evaluated. One of the options was exactly what you are suggesting; to ask Tongans all over the world for donations; For the government to go out an hold fund raising meetings projects. Decision was made against this option was based on the following reasons. - Sione Lousiale Kava -
Saturday 4 August 2007 4:00pm
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA : I would, however, challenge Ms. Swan on her interpretations of this data. Particularly her preference for "fundraising," savings from wasteful cultural practices, and bank "loans" is wishful thinking. I am in agreement that the economic news from Tonga is bad, but sound economic solutions are the answers, not with a "subsistence-mentality," band-aid solution. - Sione Mokofisi -
Saturday 4 August 2007 1:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : I trust your professional journalism can let me offer a dissenting view to yours. For the sake of creating an open discussion and God willing give us all a road for reconciling to the tragic event of 16/11, for at the end, we are all victims. From the teenage boy who picked up the rock that will undoubtedly spend time in jail; the person who sparked the match that will not see him families while in jail; those families who lost loved ones; those families who lost everything and their livelihood; government officials and PR's that were caught up in the cross-fire and indeed the King himself. When all is said and done, we have all lost a part of Tonga and indeed a part of us that we have now to turned on each other. -Thomas Monson Uata Premium content -
Friday 3 August 2007 6:09pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The 'Ikale Tahi 30-member team for the Rugby World Cup will be announced on August 14, Joe Fifita, the media liaison officer of Tonga Rugby Union confirmed today. Premium content -
Friday 3 August 2007 3:39pm
UK : The suggestion that "Tonga Mo'unga Ki He Loto" was responsible for some of the problems in Tonga in the past is news to me and I am sure thousands upon thousands of ex-students and current students from Tupou High School, Tupou College and Queen Salote College have never heard this suggestion either. So can Mafi of Amerika Samoa enlighten us all on this subject please? - Senolita Swan -
Friday 3 August 2007 5:56am
UK : The future of Tonga is already bleak and gloomy, the conversion rates of the Tongan Dollar is at its lowest in the history of the Kingdom's economical status. This is a wonderful pleasure for my counterparts who are overseas and tourists who want to splash or have a shopping spree if they visit Tonga. However, the reality of the mighty dollar sinks in with the average or those below the minimum wage of Tonga. - William Mariner
