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Map of Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. According to Samoan oral tradition, Tonga was once under the dominion of the Tui Manu'a and paid tribute to the revered paramount chief. [3] In the tenth century this dominance waned and eventually supplanted by the Tuʻi Tonga Empire. While Manu'a under the Tui Manu'a remained independent, the rest of Samoa paid ...
Tonga has four weekly newspapers: the Times of Tonga (Taimi o Tonga), the Talaki, the Kele‘a, the Kakalu 'o Tonga, and the Ita. A fifth, the Tonga Chronicle, ceased publication in May 2011. In April 2012, the Tongan government announced the imminent launch of a new weekly newspaper, which might or might not be a revival of the Tonga Chronicle ...
Later, in 1924 [3] and 1936 two more Tongans emigrated to the United States, specifically to Utah, with an American Mormon who served as a missionary in Tonga (although the first of them only accompanied to mentioned Mormon, since he only migrated to the US to study there), while in 1956 the first Tongan family living in the United States was ...
In 1983, the couple sold Samoa News and founded a new weekly publication, the Samoa Journal and Advertiser. [2] In 1981, Samoa News was the major newspaper distributed in both of the Samoas. In January 1985, Lewis Wolman became editor of Samoa News. The Samoa News Ltd. was established in 1986, with Fuga Teleso as the majority shareholder.
The first aid flights reached Tonga on Thursday with more en route, five days after a devastating volcanic eruption and tsunami, as communities awaited a ship with equipment to scale up supplies ...
Tongans or Tongan people are a Polynesian ethnic group native to Tonga, a Polynesian archipelago in the Pacific Ocean. Tongans represent more than 98% of the inhabitants of Tonga. The rest are European (the majority are British ), mixed European, and other Pacific Islanders .
Two other government enterprises whose management was outsourced by the Tongan government in 2009, along with the Tonga Chronicle, was the Tonga National Cultural Centre, to Vava'u Member of Parliament 'Etuate Lavulavu; and the Queen Salote Memorial Hall, to Simote Po'uliva'ati, former manager of the International Dateline Hotel.
But today it barely brings in more than 1, 000. Wespac, as well as local fishermen and officials in American Samoa, blame the growth in China's fishing efforts in the area.