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| UpdatedTongan Prime Minister, Akilisi Pohiva, is defending his call for the national Broadcasting Commission to be closed down or sold off.
Topics: government-and-politics, media, journalism, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedTonga's sacked former Finance Minister has been asked to help prepare the national budget as a consultant.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedThere's been a call for improving access for tourists in Tonga's northern Vava'u island group.
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| UpdatedTonga's Prime Minister, Akilisi Pohiva, says he wants to close down the country's public broadcaster for not being supportive of his government.
Topics: broadcasting, government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedA two day meeting of 60 women from around Tonga has agreed on a roadmap to press for women's rights, including reserved seats for women in Parliament.
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| UpdatedSacked Tongan Finance minister Dr Aisake Eke says he was surprised at the Prime Minister's decision to demand his resignation.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedOne of the Tongan noble MPs who voted against the government in a vote of no confidence this week believes some MPs supported the government because they wanted to stay in power.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
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A group of seven Pacific island nations is calling on the United Nations to investigate allegations of widespread human rights abuses in Indonesia's Papua region, also known as West Papua.
Topics: world-politics, human, rights, land-rights, indonesia, vanuatu, tonga, nauru, palau, tuvalu, marshall-islands, solomon-islands, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedTonga is to host a conference on whales in the Pacific next month, focusing on emerging threats to the mammals with the findings to be taken to a major United Nations conference later in the year.
Topics: environment, whaling, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedTonga's Queen Mother will be buried in the capital, Nuklu'alofa today.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedTonga's nobles are likely to continue to press the government of Akilisi Pohiva on good governance and corruption issues.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedTonga's prime minister, Akilisi Pohiva, has survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence in his government.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedA motion of no confidence could be voted on in Tongan parliament as early as tomorrow.
Topics: parliament, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedEfforts to establish a private dialysis facility in Tonga are being supported by a senior Papua New Guinea medical administrator.
Topics: liver-and-kidneys, pacific, tonga, papua-new-guinea
Posted
| UpdatedTongans are mourning the death of their Queen Mother.
Topics: royal-and-imperial-matters, pacific, tonga, new-zealand
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| UpdatedThe Tongan government has been accused of dragging its feet on approving a proposal for the country's first dialysis clinic.
Topics: health, liver-and-kidneys, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedThe Kingdom of Tonga is joining several other developing countries in getting a formal postal system for the first time.
Topics: relief-and-aid-organisations, science-and-technology, computers-and-technology, tonga, pacific, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThe Chairman and Chief Executive of the Pacific Games organising committee in Tonga, Lord Fred Sevele, says it's time for he and Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva to put their personal differences aside and work together to ensure that the 2019 Games are a success.
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| UpdatedThe Tongan rugby sevens squad have started their build up to the World Series qualifying tournament in Hong Kong in April, as they look to close the gap with their Pacific neighbours Fiji and Samoa.
Posted
| UpdatedThe Kingdom of Tonga is getting a formal postal system - something it's never really had before.
Topics: community-and-society, pacific, tonga
Posted
| UpdatedWith less than a year to go before the Winter Olympics in South Korea, one of the members of the fledgling Tongan team has made an encouraging start to his quest for qualification.
Topics: alpine-skiing, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedThe Tongan national rugby team haven't played a test match on home soil for nearly ten years, and hopes of a return to Nuku'alofa by Ikale Tahi to take on the touring Welsh side in June are fading.
Topics: rugby-union, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedThere's been a call for the Tongan government to change its approach to the New Zealand seasonal worker scheme.
Topics: farm-labour, pacific, new-zealand, tonga
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| UpdatedA motion of no confidence in Tonga's Prime Minister, Akilisi Pohiva, has been filed with the Speaker of Parliament although so far it's not clear who has actually filed the motion.
Topics: government-and-politics, pacific, tonga
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| UpdatedA pair of teenagers of Tongan heritage attempted to stop Dimitrious Gargasoulas, the man accused of driving through crowds of pedestrians in Melbourne's Bourke St Mall on Friday, leading to the deaths of five people.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, pacific, australia, tonga, melbourne-3000