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NGO to Tongan PM : “culture is no excuse”
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | 3 years ago
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The Ashika tragedy is a classic example of this, where many (including women and children, who represent the most vulnerable group in our society) lost their lives. Justice Warwick, the chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the sinking of the MV
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Scottish QC is charged with perjury over ferry disaster
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | 3 years ago
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QC is under house arrest in Tonga after being charged with perjury on the last day of a royal commission into the nation's worst shipping disaster. Lord Ramsay Dalgety, QC, a former director of Scottish Opera, is facing charges following an
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NZ businessman arrested in Tonga
Sydney :: Australia | over 3 years ago
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A New Zealander who purchased a doomed Tongan ferry has been arrested in Tonga, state broadcasting in the kingdom reports. John Jonesse is facing forgery and knowingly using forged documents. The one time Napier school teacher who ran companies in
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Strong 6.3 quake hits Tonga—USGS
Wellington :: New Zealand | over 3 years ago
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A strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami alert and no immediate reports of damage...Nine people died in September when a tsunami hit the northern
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Prominent Tongan educator dies (NZPA)
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | over 3 years ago
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One of Tonga's most prominent education figures, Futa Helu, has died, aged 75. Dr Helu, emeritus professor of the Atenisi Institute for Critical Education in the South Pacific, died at the Vaiola Hospital in Tonga on Tuesday. Dr Helu contribution to
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Minister and MP warn about scam (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | over 3 years ago
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Tongan overstayers were being offered false hope by a scam offering citizenship during Waitangi Day weekend, Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman says. One News reported last night that hundreds of Tongan overstayers have been invited to go to
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I won't be fall guy for Tongan ferry tragedy, says Scots peer
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | over 3 years ago
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QC has told an inquiry in Tonga he will not be made "the fall guy" for the country's worst shipping disaster. Lord Ramsay Dalgety, QC, company secretary of the Shipping Corporation of Polynesia (SCP), operator of the Princess Ashika ferry, which sank
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Soccer: Kiwis hot favourites for Oceania champs
Wellington :: New Zealand | over 3 years ago
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As well as the destruction and heartbreak they have had to come to terms with, their women's under-20 soccer teams face an even bigger hurdle when the Oceania Championship kicks off at North Harbour Stadium today. The tournament, originally scheduled
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CEO to give evidence at ferry sinking inquiry (NZPA)
Auckland :: New Zealand | over 3 years ago
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John Jonesse, the New Zealand businessman who bought the doomed Tongan ferry Princess Ashika, will give evidence on Thursday to a Tongan royal commission examining why it sank. John Jonesse, 60, was chief executive of the Shipping Corporation of
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World Cup near miss for Tonga
Nuku'alofa :: Tonga | over 3 years ago
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The Tongan Government has taken control of the country's rugby union amid concerns the island nation could have been barred from next year's World Cup in New Zealand. The International Rugby Board was ready to pull Tonga from the tournament after
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