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Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Telecommunications managers in the Pacific are looking at how island communities can take advantage of new telephone and internet technologies. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003.
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Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Extreme Poverty does not exist in Tonga, according to an Asian Development Bank report, released in Nuku’alofa at the end of October. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s Seventh Form students sat New Zealand’s University Entrance and Bursary Examinations for the last time this year. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s annual squash exports for Japan could reach 20,000 tonnes, but people in the industry in November were predicting the price will plummet this year to a disappointing low of between 20 and 15 seniti per kilo. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Deep-sea fishing, at the depth of between 500 and 2000 meters could offer a new source of fish for the Tonga Fisheries Industry. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : The Tonga office of the Taimi ‘o Tonga Newspaper has been told by the Business Licence Sector of the Ministry of Labour and Commerce it will not extend its business licence to operate in Tonga when the weekly newspaper’s quarterly business licence expires on December 31. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Tricia Emberson the CEO of Tonga’s largest fish exporter, ‘Alatini Fisheries Ltd., who has been operating in Tongan waters for the last 14 years, is a hard core survivor of an industry that has had to ride out the waves of unfavourable weather conditions and export cargo surcharges over the last two years. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : The new Waterfront Lodge was officially opened for business on December 6 in Nukualofa’s seafront Vuna Road. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : The saying that when the going gets tough, the tough keep going, is very true with the Nuku‘alofa business community. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : The Cowley and Sons Bakery this year celebrated the 110 years of their operation in Tonga. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : A former technician with the Tonga Telephone and Telegraph Department back in 1957, Alexander James McGregor (80), from Grey Lynn, Auckland, visited Tonga for the third time in November. When he first arrived in Tonga in 1957 homes were thatched huts, and there were no aeroplanes, just ferries. There were a few vehicles and the telephone system operated through one switchboard.From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : The new headquarters of the Tonga Defence Services was officially opened by HM King Taufa‘ahau Tupou IV on December 5. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Tonga’s export market for its treasured yams would increase if Tonga and its main trading partners New Zealand and Australia could agree on ways to eliminate fumigation for this product, say exporters in Nuku‘alofa. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 12:00pm
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : A new professional organisation of Tongan news media was officially registered in Nuku‘alofa as an incorporated society on 11 November 2003. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 11:26am
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : A study of the level of corruption in Tonga is expected to be completed before the end of the year, and made public by March 2004. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Tuesday 30 December 2003 2:00am
Nuku‘alofa, Tonga : Democratic reform will help to preserve the dignity of the King, and his links with his people, says Taimi ‘o Tonga publisher, Kalafi Moala. From Matangi Tonga Magazine Vol. 18, no. 3, December 2003. Premium content -
Monday 29 December 2003 3:36pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : The Tongan Squash Exporters' Council is seeking a $6 million loan for the purpose of compensating squash growers who were hurt by low returns from their sale of squash to Japan this year. Premium content -
Monday 29 December 2003 3:20pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : It was a miserable grey Christmas for the residents of Popua and Fangaloto areas of eastern Nuku'alofa, when they woke up on Christmas morning in a choking cloud of smoke. Premium content -
Monday 29 December 2003 2:53pm
Suva, Fiji : A Tongan national has been appointed as the Forum Representative for Forum Island Countries (FICs) to the World Trade Organisation based in Geneva. Premium content -
Monday 29 December 2003 12:19pm
Nuku'alofa, Tonga : Two men were shot and wounded during a shooting incident at the western end of the Tuimatamoana Wharf, Nuku'alofa, in the early hours of Sunday December 21. Premium content
