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  Tonga on the 'NET - A3V The Millenium Radio 2000
A3V The Millenium Radio 2000 broadcasts popular music format in the Kingdom of Tonga on FM89.1.
With a current broadcast range reaching all of the Tongatapu Group (which includes 'Eua) the new entry into the Tonga radio broadcast spectrum has quickly garnered a following among the youth, and general populace.
Primarily focused on music broadcasts, Sam is negotiating with overseas entertainers for retransmission of their music programmes as well as assessing means for acquiring quality non-music programming for his customers.
www.tongatapu.net.to /tonga/news/media/a3v.html   (135 words)

  
  Radio tonga
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www.explore-tonga.com /Tonga-Travel-Activities/radio-tonga.html   (160 words)

  
 On the Spot Radio Program, Tonga
We want to inform the young people of Tonga and the entire community about the Millennium Development Goals and how these goals specifically relate to the Pacific region and what action can be taken to help achieve these goals.
Our first radio show was supposed to premier last week on the 19th.
Tonga radio has given us a good slot..
www.unesco.org /csi/YV/projects/tonga/tonga-proj.htm   (752 words)

  
 Planet Tonga Radio
- Voice of the South Pacific : Prayer by Rev. Salesi Fakatulolo of the Church of Tonga Konisitutone.
He touches on current strategies of the HRM to connect with the Tongan population as media access is still not fully given to the HRM.
Radio 531pi is a pan-Pacific community owned commercial radio station broadcasting on 531KHz to the greater Auckland region and beyond.
www.planet-tonga.com /radio   (1067 words)

  
 Pacific Journalism Review 2000 East Timor
There is a brief look at American influences on radio in Hawaii and the Marshall Islands with its mixture of public service radio, commercial broadcasting and automated satellite radio feeds for United States military personnel and families.
It was a small step in thinking to see that radio stations could follow their bigger brothers overseas and become self-reliant.
SewardÕs research notes that this news is now redistributed to radio stations, news agencies, the print media and a number of institutions including embassies, universities and libraries.
www.asiapac.org.fj /PJR/issues/next/2000radiohappy.html   (1456 words)

  
 Radio NZ International - What's New
Radio Tonga reports that ’Anau has been working for the Tonga Broadcasting Commission initially as a Radio and TV reporter for about three years, before taking up Radio news at the beginning of this year.
Radio Tonga’s Chief News Editor Nanise Fifita says ’Anau’s achievement demonstrates high level of skills and commitment to her tasks of reporting major events as they happen despite various verbal threats and abuse from the public, in which she encountered during those events in the Kingdom.
Radio New Zealand International is the country’s only short-wave station, broadcasting 24 hours a day to audiences from Papua New Guinea in the west to French Polynesia in the east, covering all South Pacific countries in between.
www.rnzi.com /pages/whatsnew.php   (2676 words)

  
 Radio Australia - News - Tongan political campaigners face jail   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Campaigners for political reform in Tonga have been found guilty of charges relating to a protest in June last year.
Tonga's most prominent pro-democracy activist, Akilisi Pohiva and fellow street protestor, Tui'i Uata, have been found guilty of obstructing police.
Radio Tonga's editor of news, George Lavaka, told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat that the men's involvement in last year's protest march might mean jail for them both.
www.radioaustralia.net.au /news/stories/s1917364.htm   (254 words)

  
 The Kingdom of Tonga
The Kingdom of Tonga is an archipelago of 172 islands in the central South West Pacific, south of Samoa, 3580 kms north east of Australia and 650 kms east of Fiji.
The ethnic composition of Tonga is 95.5% Tongan.
Today Tonga has achieved a high literacy level (98%) and a secondary school system that is on a par with or adaptable by a short bridging course, to that of other developing countries in the region like Australia and New Zealand.
alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au /AcrossCurric/Paradise/koftonga.html   (3131 words)

  
 Tonga: Tonga's Environmental Awareness Week
In the Kingdom of Tonga, a radio initiative to foster environmental awareness resulted in a decided change of behaviour and a measurable improvement in the environment.
When a young radio announcer wanted to initiate an annual radio series on environment, the Environmental Division of the Ministry of Lands, Survey and Natural Resources worked with her to create a week long programme that linked with the United Nation's World Environment Day and, as it happens, the King's Birthday.
The radio station presents and coordinates the program in association with the Environment Unit and all the Government ministries that are involved with environmental issues.
www.unescap.org /drpad/vc/conference/ex_to_1_tea.htm   (816 words)

  
 Tonga
According to the last official census, in 1996, membership by percentage of population of major denominations was: Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, 41 percent; Roman Catholic, 16 percent; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), 14 percent; and Free Church of Tonga, 12 percent.
The TBC guidelines stated that in view of "the character of the listening public," those who preach on Radio Tonga must confine their preaching "within the limits of the mainstream Christian tradition." This policy applied to all faiths.
The Tonga National Council of Churches (TNCC) is a nongovernment organization of seven member churches and engages various Christian denominations in ecumenical dialogue.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2006/71360.htm   (872 words)

  
 Tonga to ask for Australian troops - World - theage.com.au
The dead were believed to be looters or rioters, as staff of the power company were all accounted for after the building was torched by rampaging youth during yesterday's riot, he said.
Tonga radio and television said the youths were believed to be pro-democracy supporters, unhappy about what they claim is the delay in implementing reforms.
Tonga, located halfway between Australia and Tahiti - has a population of around 108,000 and an economy dependent on pumpkin and vanilla exports, fishing, foreign aid and remittances from Tongans abroad.
www.theage.com.au /news/world/tonga-to-ask-for-australian-troops/2006/11/17/1163266745002.html   (902 words)

  
 Tonga Press, Media, TV, Radio, Newspapers
Tonga, an archipelago of more than 170 islands in the South Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and New Zealand, is the only remaining Polynesian monarchy.
Tonga's small economy is anchored by agriculture, especially squash, coconuts, bananas and vanilla beans.
There are three radio stations, one AM and one FM, serving 61,000 radios, and there is one television station broadcasting to 2,000 televisions.
www.pressreference.com /Sw-Ur/Tonga.html   (377 words)

  
 A3Z Tonga BC :: DXing.info
Tonga is a parliamentary kingdom of 110 000 inhabitants scattered over dozens of islands totalling 750 square kilometers.
A3Z Radio 1 on 1017 kHz, with a power of 10 kilowatts, is the only AM transmitter in the country.
Tonga Broadcasting Commission has a staff of 60 people to run two radio channels, both nearly 18 hours a day.
www.dxing.info /profiles/tonga.dx   (511 words)

  
 Media maniac - Radio internet musique-du-monde - radio web en ligne gratuit
Radio américaine qui diffuse de la musique grecque.
Radio irlandaise qui diffuse de la musique traditionnelle et folk.
Radio associative locale du nord de l'Essonne (91) qui programme du Reaggae.
www.media-maniac.com /php/radio/musique-du-monde   (780 words)

  
 The Forgotten All-Night Shift
Tonga is an independent kingdom with a constitutional monarchy established in 1862 by King Tupou 1.
Radio Tonga came into existence on July 4, 1961 when a new mediumwave station was inaugurated with 10 kW on 1020 kHz.
The studios and transmitters for Radio Tonga are located in the capital city.
radiodx.com /spdxr/a3z.htm   (923 words)

  
 Broadcasters - Tsunamihelp
The radio station was borne out of a United Nations Development Programme financial assistance to the Dhan Foundation, based in Madurai, and with the active assistance of local people.
The radio station will initially be available in a radius of around two kilometers through narrowcasting, and later when it is fully in broadcast mode the station will cover up to 20-kilometre radius.
The radio programme also seeks to counter misinformation and rumours while establishing a dialogue between quake survivors and decision-makers in the process of reconstruction and rehabilitation.
www.tsunamihelp.info /wiki/index.php/Broadcasters   (2646 words)

  
 Polynesian Music
Radiocarbon of Lapita pottery has suggested that Tonga is the longest-inhabited island group in Polynesia, with radiocarbon dates as early as 1140 B.C. Thus we conclude that Tonga's first settlers, the people who made Lapita ware, were the first true Polynesians.
Throughout Tonga, traditional music has been preserved in the set pieces performed at royal and noble weddings and funerals, as well as in the song sung during the traditional ceremony of apology, the 'lou-ifi'.
"Radio Tonga" begins each day's broadcast with a recording by a nobleman and celebrated virtuoso of the nose flute which is otherwise rarely heard.
www.janesoceania.com /polynesia_music/index.htm   (1662 words)

  
 Tonga : Planning a Trip : Fast Facts | Frommers.com
Electricity -- Electricity in Tonga is 240 volts, 50 cycles, and the plugs are the heavy, angled type used in Australia and New Zealand.
Tonga has two over-the-air television channels, one owned by the government, the other with predominately Christian programming (which is to say, fundamentalist American preachers raising money while haranguing the faithful).
One time gratuities are encouraged is during Tongan dance shows, when members of the audience rush up to the female dancers and stick notes to their well-oiled bodies.
www.frommers.com /destinations/tonga/3039020157.html   (1466 words)

  
 TONGA PRO-DEMOCRACY LEADERS DECLARE VICTORY - November 23, 2006
By the time the People’s Representatives proclaimed their "victory" on Radio Tonga, their supporters had inflicted massive damage to the properties of private businesses in Nuku'alofa, which they carried out in two waves.
We are asking for the people of Tonga to forgive us for what has taken place, we will deal with it tomorrow and next week, together with the government and the nobles.
Meanwhile, radio listeners were trying to comprehend the legality of the political proposal that was forced on government while Nuku'alofa burned.
pidp.eastwestcenter.org /pireport/2006/November/11-23-03.htm   (1449 words)

  
 Tonga at the Crossroads
Another factor contributing to the demise of the airline is highlighted by Julie Middleton of the NZ Herald, who reports that Ivana, a New Zealand born Tongan, had boycotted Royal Tongan Airlines because of the ban on newspapers and broadcasters that were seen to be unsympathetic to the Government or the Royal Family.
The insistence on the ban by the Government of Tonga led to the resignation of Chief Justice Gordon Ward of the Supreme Court of Tonga.
According to the Matangi Tonga, Tonga's news magazine, the airline problem has been further aggravated by a political reaction from the public following a call to boycott the airline when government pushed ahead and ignored the Constitution and passed legislation to control Free Speech and the Freedom of the Press.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/current_events_pacific_islands/108282   (487 words)

  
 The Contemporary Pacific: Polynesia in Review: Tonga - March 8, 2007
On 17 August, students at Tonga College were informed that their principal, Tu'amelie Faaitu'a, and head tutor, Lopaki Fifita, were being removed to the main education office in Nuku'alofa.
Tonga's long-term commitment to higher education has enabled a brain drain that benefits the nation and individual households in terms of remittances, but has done far less for internal productivity or efficiency.
While such language was rarely used in Tonga, the protests of 2005 represented resistance to aspects of the neoliberal models of economic reform.
archives.pireport.org /archive/2007/March/tcp-tonga.htm   (5970 words)

  
 Turmoil in Tonga: troops take control - World - smh.com.au
An uneasy calm settled over Tonga's capital early today as police and troops took control of the central city where rioting youths earlier torched buildings, overturned cars and looted.
Australia said it would consider sending security forces to the Tonga if the government requested it, after overwhelmed police and fire fighters were left standing by as gangs of youths smashed windows and looted shops.
Tonga's King Siaosi Tupou V was believed to be at a royal villa outside the capital.
www.smh.com.au /news/world/turmoil-in-tonga-troops-take-control/2006/11/17/1163266748479.html   (874 words)

  
 Tonga on the 'NET - In the NEWS
Tonga on the 'NET - In the NEWS
These pages are frame based, your World Wide Web Browser is not interpreting the Frames display.
To provide a cleaner interface to the information we provide on the Kingdom of Tonga, these pages make extensive use of Frames.
www.tongatapu.net.to /tonga/news/default.htm   (71 words)

  
 UH Press Journals: The Contemporary Pacific 13 (2001): 594-597
However, as Seward examines reciprocal radio flows to and from stations in the Pacific and how foreign news material actually is incorporated, the cultural imperialism argument breaks down considerably.
Radio Tonga, for example, gave Seward tours and allowed him access to the newsroom and broadcasts, while Seward was forced to rely on other sources to discuss 2AP, the Samoa Broadcasting Service.
Radio Happy Isles is to my knowledge the first comprehensive mono-[end page 596]graph on contemporary Pacific media that treats the region as one large mediated space.
www.uhpress.hawaii.edu /journals/cp/CP132p594.html   (1291 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting likely to change venue
The 37th Pacific Islands Forum leaders' meeting due to be held in Tonga in October is most likely to be moved to a new venue, Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio reported on Wednesday.
The radio said Tonga's King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, who lies gravely ill at a hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, is suspected to pass away in the very near future and strict mourning rituals will be in effect when the forum leaders arrive.
Tonga's news web site, Matangi Tonga, has said the King's palace has been painted and workers are cleaning up the palace grounds while students from nearby Queen Salote College have started cleaning the royal tombs.
english.people.com.cn /200608/23/eng20060823_296093.html   (207 words)

  
 Tonga - The Coronation of the King
Which is why the next ten minutes found me being driven furiously along the Radio Tonga's studios by the Director of Broadcasting, the only people on the island to be travelling away from the Palace while towards us on every side surged the entire child population of the Kingdom.
It was the mass procession of schools, on their way to a triumphal march-past the King, a vast bobbing tide of bouncing girls and boys, waving red and white flags and chanting the Tongan hurray at the tops of their voice.
Ve'ehala had told me this seated semi-dance was based on the movements of the female Tui Tonga of a thousand years ago who was spied upon by her courtiers as she dried herself after her swim in a forest pool.
www.janesoceania.com /tonga_coronation/index.htm   (5339 words)

  
 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2001 - Tonga   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Kingdom of Tonga is a constitutional monarchy in which political life is dominated by the King, the nobility, and a few prominent commoners.
The TBC guidelines state that in view of "the character of the listening public," those who preach on Radio Tonga must confine their preaching "within the limits of the mainstream Christian tradition." This policy applies to all churches.
Mormons utilize Radio Tonga for the announcement of church activities and functions.
www.usemb.se /human/2001/eastasia/tonga.html   (3004 words)

  
 Radio Australia - News - Tonga reports first dengue death for the year   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Reports from Tonga say a 50-year-old woman has become the first person to die of dengue fever in the country this year.
Radio Tonga says the woman was a patient at the Vaiola hospital.
Radio Tonga says a number of other people have either tested positive or are currently suspected of having the disease.
www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1324056.htm   (190 words)

  
 Christian Radio in Nuku'alofa Tonga
Christian Radio 93FM is managed by Loni Akolo, a local Tongan man who has been trained by UCB Pacific Partners.
Loni and his team are constantly developing new radio programs and 'off-station' events to help bring his listeners into a meaningful, daily relationship with Jesus Christ.
Christian Radio 93FM was the first Christian radio station in the South Pacific Islands and has has been broadcasting in Nuku'alofa, Tonga since 1993.
www.christianradio.org.uk /world/pacific-islands/tonga-nukualofa.htm   (296 words)

  
 Vai's Blog: A Passing In Tonga - NBC 10 Blog
Radio in Tonga in the late '60s would be comparable to your grandparents' experience with radio during the Great Depression.
Radio Tonga was the only thing on the AM dial; it was and is government owned.
Tonga is a chain of 150 islands, of which roughly 35 are inhabitated.
www.nbc10.com /blog/8027312/detail.html   (1144 words)

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