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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
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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 -
Thursday 2 August 2007 8:25pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's Rugby Union has been ordered by the Supreme Court to hold an annual general meeting this month, in an ongoing dispute within the union that now means today's expected announcement of Tonga's 30-member Rugby World Cup team has been postponed indefinitely. Premium content -
Thursday 2 August 2007 8:01pm
Sydney, Australia : The new president of the World Bank, Bob Zoellick, has said it is "absolutely critical" that South Pacific nations be able to send guest workers to Australia. Premium content -
Thursday 2 August 2007 6:16pm
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA : I've read with great interest the debate on whether to accept Chinese money which, the Tongan Government wishes to borrow. I was disappointed when none of the opposition advocators could muster a single good economics reason why Chinese money is unacceptable. - Sione Mokofisi -
Thursday 2 August 2007 5:11pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : If it rains during a celebration, Tongans refer to it as a blessing from heaven, so when it poured down with rain all day yesterday during the birthday celebration of the new King, HM George Tupou V, it was said that Nuku'alofa was overflowing with blessings. Premium content -
Thursday 2 August 2007 3:13pm
Pago Pago, American Samoa : The public asked why, Robert F. Kennedy asked why not? You argue that "Tonga cannot afford this Loan from China". My concern is "can Tonga afford not to make this loan from China?" - Sione Lousiale Kava -
Thursday 2 August 2007 2:40pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : During the occasion of the presentation of credentials of HE Dr. S. Ngongo Kioa, High Commissioner to London and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the European Commission (EC) to the President of EC, HE Mr. Jose Manuel Barroso, on 11th July 2007, the good relations and strengthened partnership between Tonga and the EU were confirmed having regard to Tonga...s improved governance commitments and satisfactory progress of the implementation of the European Development Fund (EDF) to Tonga as follows; Premium content -
Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:20pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 50-year-old father and his 22-year-old daughter of Hofoa were charged with incest, appearing at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court on July 30. Premium content -
Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:50am
UK : The issue he raised in his interview about Club or Country is the reality of this professional sport today. Tonga's value as a country is pennies compared to other sporting giants as explained by Tevita Vaikona. Numerous local talents from Tonga are being pouched by Rugby League and Union but mostly by NZ and Australia. The UK and Japan are the post eras of retiring super stars from the All Blacks and Wallabies because of the amount of money gained is far more what Australia or New Zealand can offer. - William Mariner -
Monday 30 July 2007 6:45pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : HM King George Tupou V will celebrate his 59th birthday on the new date, August 1, for the first time a public holiday for Tonga. Premium content -
Monday 30 July 2007 6:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : "Young girls need to be protected from sex predators like yourself", Tonga's Chief Justice told a 65-year-old man in sentencing him to six years in prison, at the Nuku'alofa Supreme Court today. Premium content -
Monday 30 July 2007 5:37pm
Noumea, New Caledonia : The recent amalgamation of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's (SPC) Women's and Youth Bureaus, Cultural Programme, and Community Education and Training Centre into the Human Development Programme (HDP) sets an interesting new direction, says the programme's new Advocacy and Communications Officer. Premium content -
Sunday 29 July 2007 8:44am
Pago Pago, American Samoa : I strongly suggest and highly recommended that before a decision is made to re-deploy a Tongan unit to Iraq, that you give this deployment very careful consideration while you the choice is still up to you and definitely before you put any sons or daughters of Tonga in harms way.- Mafi 'o Amerika Samoa Premium content -
Friday 27 July 2007 8:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Disappointed but not discouraged was the mixed feeling of the Tongan Rugby star, Tevita Vaikona (32) when he was not selected for the 'Ikale Tahi 2007 World Cup team to play in France during September and October. Premium content -
Friday 27 July 2007 6:47pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Opening a new showroom today on Taufa'ahau Road, Skip's Custom Joinery is one of a few businesses that have moved into central Nuku'alofa following the riots of November 16, last year. Premium content
