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Friday 6 May 2005 4:30pm
Auckland, New Zealand : I take my hat off to the PDP and congratulate them for a 'landslide' victory over the THRDM. I say landslide since they have existed for only 22 days but they have gained 1 seat in the people's 11 places in Parliament (9 PR and 2 Cabinet ministers). Compare that with the 8 seats by the THRDM who have been in existence for more than 10 years.
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Thursday 5 May 2005 11:23pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tonga's sacked Minister of Police, William Clive Edwards, will re-enter the Tongan parliament after snatching a Tongatapu People's Representative seat in today's by- election. Premium content -
Thursday 5 May 2005 5:57pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : After Tonga's squash growers this week became totally confused over how the new Consumption Tax applied to their businesses, the Minister of Finance has come out and promised them exemption from the CT on agricultural imports. Premium content -
Thursday 5 May 2005 5:12pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Polling started slowly in Nuku'alofa in today's By Election to elect two new People's Representatives to the Tongan Parliament - one from Tongatapu and the other from the two Niuas . Premium content -
Thursday 5 May 2005 4:15pm
Kyoto, Japan : According to the APALC report, 6% of Tongans in California have a Bachelor Degree. My interest is the comparison between the Tongans in New Zealand (National level) and California (one State). The latest 2001 New Zealand population census recorded 40,716 Tongans of which 23,334 are aged 15 and above. Thus the figure in the quote above, implies 9,771 (24% of Total Tongan), or 5,600 (24% of age 15 and above) Tongans in New Zealand have a Bachelor Degree. -Raelyn L. 'Esau. -
Thursday 5 May 2005 3:18pm
Suva, Fiji : A trilateral security discussion among the United States, Australia and Japan that first was initiated in August 2002 will be intensified and elevated to the foreign ministerial level, according to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Premium content -
Thursday 5 May 2005 12:24pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Results of the Tongan May 2005 By Election for a new Tongatapu No. 3 People's Resentative, and a new Niuatoputapu and Niuafo'ou People's Representative. Premium content -
Tuesday 3 May 2005 4:39pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A settlement action brought by Hon. Dr Feleti Sevele against a newspaper publisher, Sangstar Saulala, has failed. Premium content -
Tuesday 3 May 2005 4:27pm
Newbury, United Kingdom : As a Member of Newbury RFC, I would like for you to know what a marvellous ambassador for Tonga Johnny (Sione) has been these last months. Premium content -
Tuesday 3 May 2005 4:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Nobles 'Ahome'e, and Lasike have been chosen today as the new Nobles Representatives to replace the nobles who were recently appointed as Ministers. Premium content -
Monday 2 May 2005 6:15pm
Sydney, Australia : Ko e lea tau e mala’e ‘o e politiki ‘i he fonua mo e kuonga kotoa pe ko e fo’ilea koia ko e .”KAKAI” (people). Ka ko e lea’ni ‘oku mafulifuli hono ‘uhinga, ‘a ia ko hono kakano ia, ‘o makatu’unga ‘i he va (relation) ‘o e “founga fakahoko ngaue’ mo e “kaveinga’ ‘a ia ‘i he faka-politikale ‘oku nofo kainga ai e ongo fakakaukau ‘e ua: -'Inoke Fotu Hu'akau Premium content -
Monday 2 May 2005 6:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : When Professor Futa Helu withdrew his support from 'Akilisi Pohiva and Dr Feleti Sevele, and endorsed Clive Edwards as the Number One candidate for Tongatapu in the recent March parliamentary election, he initiated a split in Tonga's Pro-democracy Movement. Tonga now has two Demo camps, the Tonga Human Rights and Democracy Movement and the People's Democratic Party, which have begun to be critical of each other. - Editor's Comment by Pesi Fonua2 comments -
Monday 2 May 2005 11:15am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : An argument among "Demos" People's Representatives, and between the Demos and the new kid on the block, the People's Democratic Party, featured in most of the local newspapers this week in Tonga, apart from the Kele'a, which featured another episode in the Piveni Pikula revelations about Shoreline. Premium content -
Monday 2 May 2005 10:00am
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : A 25 per cent increase in Nuku'alofa's port tariffs due to start on April 1 has been deferred until July 1 by the Nuku'alofa Port Authority. Premium content -
Friday 29 April 2005 12:00pm
California, USA : My story is as similar to yours. Your forebears were in the middle of all these. Mine just happened to be better liars. Six generations later, the story is still told as if they were happened yesterday. Somewhere in Timbuktu, USA, life is good to me. However, I am emotionally tied to a small island nation in the South Pacific. What this small nation need is a leader; someone who remembers, he is provided with luxury while his subjects are struggling to make ends meet; someone who remembers being king is a privilege not a right. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2005 6:30pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Prince Regent, HRH Crown Prince Tupouto'a, was at Fua'amotu International Airport yesterday afternoon, April 28, to welcome the arrival of a 37-seat Convair aircraft of the Peau Vava'u Airways from New Zealand. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2005 6:15pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : April was the wettest month so far this year on Tongatapu with 301.05 mm of rainfall recorded by the Meteorological Center at Tonga's Fua'amotu International Airport. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2005 5:50pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Hon. Sonatane Tu‘akinamalohi Taumoepeau Tupou, Tonga's Minister of Foreign Affairs, was appointed as the Acting Minister of Defence on Friday April 22, 2005. Premium content -
Thursday 28 April 2005 10:45am
Suva, Fiji : The amount of drama and diplomacy played by greedy politicians and certain members of the royal family is quite appalling. Shoreline Company is for one. I think that it is about time that the people run their own electricity company. It is evident that in the hands of the wrong people, the Shoreline Company has become a disaster to the people as well as a liability to the kingdom itself. feleti s. -
Wednesday 27 April 2005 5:00pm
Leicester, United Kingdom : Finau Maka scored the first try in the semi-final for the Heineken Cup between his team, Toulouse, a French outfit, and Leicester Tigers from the United Kingdom at Walker's Stadium, Leicester, last Sunday April 24. Premium content
