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  • Thursday 29 October 2015 3:23pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Mr Prime Minister...You forget that the Constitution demands absolute integrity from our law makers. ...when you passively and aggressively requested the House to release your Minister from the impeachment process, you violated justice; you trashed the Constitution and travestied justice. – Tamanomuka.
  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 10:32pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga’s new Foreign Exchange Levy Act 2015 that came into force on Wednesday last week has disrupted the movement of foreign exchange in and out of the country, as bankers do not know how to apply it.
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  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 6:31pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga Police arrested a 30 year old man from Hofoa and seized 289 Cannabis plants from a plantation in Puke on Saturday, 24 October 2015. Another man was arrested yesterday on a Nuku'alofa street corner with 32 packs of marijuana.
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  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 6:09pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A 3 year-old-boy who touched a faulty mobile phone charger, died from electrocution on Saturday, 24 October 2015.
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  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 3:24pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Ko e faito’o ‘a e Pule’anga ke solova ‘aki ‘a e ngaue pango ‘a Lavulavu: ‘Uluakii - Pehee ‘e he Palemiaa ke tohi tangi mai ‘a e kakaii ki he Tama Tu’ii ke fai ha fili fo’ou; Uaa – Pehe ‘e Minisita Eke ke fai ha tohi tangi ki Falealea ke toe fai ha hopo fo’ou.
  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 11:55am


    Nadi, Fiji
    : The University of the South Pacific Council has appointed Mr Winston Thompson as its new Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Council for three years, starting from January 2016. The meeting noted its Strategic Plan 2013-18 "sets out an ambitious path to transform USP from good to an excellent University.”
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  • Wednesday 28 October 2015 9:34am


    Honiara, Solomon Islands
    : Tonga is the 7th country to commit to the Niue agreement that aims to stamp out illegal, unlicensed and unregulated fishing in the tuna-rich economic zones of the Pacific Islands.
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  • Tuesday 27 October 2015 5:58pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A complex four-days Pacific regional meeting to discuss a theme of “Building Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a Catalyst for economic growth”, began in Avarua, Cook islands today, 27 October. It aims to increase the engagement of the Private Sector in the Pacific Island economies, and to identify regional approaches for Private Sector to address its economic concerns.
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  • Tuesday 27 October 2015 1:41pm


    Geneva, Switzerland
    : A three-year funding commitment of $3 million has been made by Australia to support intellectual property (IP) programs in needy countries, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
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  • Tuesday 27 October 2015 1:27pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga's creative writers have an opportunity to enter and win prestigious prizes offered in the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2016 awards – but the time is also short before entries close on November 1.
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  • Saturday 24 October 2015 7:35pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Celebrating Pink October, the Tonga Breast Cancer Society hosted a fundraising luncheon at the Vakaloa Resort, Kanokupolu today joined by the society Patron Princess Pilolevu, her daughters Hon Frederica Filipe and Hon. Fanetupouvava'u Tu'ivakano and their children.
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  • Saturday 24 October 2015 2:52pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Mahino pee na’e fili ‘a Lavulavu ia ki he Palemiaa ‘i hono paloti’i ‘i Fale Alea ‘i he kamata ‘a e Pule’anga lolotongaa, pea ko e ‘totongi fakafoki’ nai ‘eni ‘oe paloti koiaa, he ko e politikii ia, ka ‘oku ‘ikai ko e ngaue faka-e-sevanitii ia ‘o fakatatau mo ‘enau fuakavaa. – Sione Tu’itupou Fotu.
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  • Saturday 24 October 2015 7:27am


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : If the Cabinet Minister Lavulavu was an ordinary Tongan public servant, he would have been arrested by the Police and charged with corruption and other criminal offences. But because he is a minister of the Crown, the Prime Minister of Tonga, ‘Akilisi Pohiva, together with his cabinet and his followers, voted to set him free. – Senolita Swan.
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  • Friday 23 October 2015 11:54pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : An announcement by Tonga’s Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pohiva that yesterday’s decision by parliament gave him the authority to punish Lavulavu for abuse of office, has astounded the media who were called to a press conference outside parliament today, Friday. From outside the House, by Pesi Fonua.
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  • Friday 23 October 2015 8:36pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : A Tongan scholarship student, Pipiena Faupula, received a high achiever award while completing her Masters in Commerce at the University of the South Pacific.
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  • Friday 23 October 2015 8:05pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : HM King Tupou VI commissioned the VOEA Late, a 30.4m long landing craft at the Touliki Naval Base this moring, 23 October. Photos by Pesi Fonua.
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  • Friday 23 October 2015 6:56pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Looking at the possibility of opening up a new market for Tongan squash exports to China, a delegation of quarantine officials from China arrived in Tonga today on an exploratory visit, at the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, supporting an initiative of Tongan squash exporters.
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  • Friday 23 October 2015 6:40pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga and Forum Island Countries (FIC) will benefit from enhanced regional trade and economic integration under the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER) Plus Agreement, with Australia and New Zealand.
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  • Friday 23 October 2015 6:38pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Delegations from 15 Pacific Island countries recently attended a workshop to develop recognized accreditation in vocational education on climate change and sustainable energy in the Pacific.
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  • Friday 23 October 2015 6:31pm


    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
    : Tonga, for the first time, planned to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the United Nations (UN) and the 16th anniversary for Tonga’s membership of the United Nations, which it joined in 1999, with an event at the Fa’onelua Convention Centre today. Officially, UN day is 24 October.
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