Anthony Fullman - source: Newstalk ZB - TVNZ

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Posted: 5: 39 AM Monday, May 23, 2011 source: a news/Newstalk ZB
Anthony Fullman - source: Newstalk ZB
Concerns are growing about the welfare of a man trapped in the row between Fiji and Tonga's New Zealand.
Anthony Fullman, former head of the authority of Fiji water, was transported in for questioning by the police of Fiji because of its close links with outside control officer Lieutenant Colonel Tevita Mara, who has fled to Tonga.
 
A friend of the family, said that businessman suffers severe diabetes, which, if left untreated, can be life threatening.
"Needs it [diabetes medication]."He takes it very often, I do not know how many times, but you need it, lucky De Silva told one news.
Friends say Fullman is not answering his phone or respond to email messages.
 
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and trade said it is studying the matter and has been in contact with Fullman.
Fullman has extracted interrogation because phone records show that he had been talking with Mara Lieutenant Colonel before leaving for Tonga.
Mara escaped a charge of sedition in Fiji last weekend, but is in Tonga under the protection of the Royal family, to which it is linked.
A correspondent Barbara Dreaver News spoke yesterday to Mara and told him that it was natural that the two had talked about because "they are friends", he said.
Fullman is the former head of the authority of Fiji water and is one of a number to be questioned about how Mara came to be in Tonga.
Fullman has had his passport confiscated.
Instructor of surf Tim McBride, who has U.S. passport, has also been arrested on suspicion of helping to Mara.
According to the latest report of Amnesty International, there is reason to worry.
"Recently, we have seen politicians, officials, etc. in the Queen Elizabeth barracks physically and sexually abused and intimidated so it would be very concerned about no one is taking their interrogation by the military," Patrick Holmes of Amnesty InternationalHe said.
Mara said news that people were being taken to the barracks and beaten.
"Fear for my family", he said.
"This oppressive regime has done in the past, its specific people who voted, has led to their families".
Pressure on Bainimarama
First Minister John Key says New Zealand and Australia have kept pressure on Commodore Frank Bainimarama hold elections.
 
John Key says economic sanctions can last a long time before you have great impact, but have a dramatic impact on the plight of the people every day in that country.
Key said that the Government knows that they are working the travel bans and frustrate the regime.
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North Queensland Cowboys centre Willie Tonga knocked out shortly before call up to Australia team

Willie Tonga... rey-hit in Townsville just before the call to rows Australia nightclub. Source: News Limited
Centre of North Queensland Cowboys Willie Tonga was unconscious in a Townsville Disco just a few days before he received a final call to rows in the Australia Squadron.
Shane Robert Alexander, 23, pleaded guilty to drunk and disorderly conduct in the Court of magistrates of Townsville later Thursday that he rey-hit Tonga in the tavern of Flinders St this mad cow in the early hours of May 2.
The next day, Cowboys management denied that Tonga had been attacked. On Thursday, the club maintained his silence, saying that the matter had been resolved by the courts and there was nothing that could add.

Kieran Crowley, the dissident of maple leaf - Stuff.co.nz

There will be seven coaches of Kiwi and many attendees at the upcoming Rugby World Cup. Marc Hinton brings together one and it is enjoying its own special problems.
When Kieran Crowley landed in Canada to train the perennial minnows of the World Cup, he moved to remove a perspective in action throughout the country. It was a flight of eight hours for 80 minutes, however, decidedly rugby's base.

Worcester bring Sione Tu'ipulotu and George Porter - BBC News

Sione Tu ' ipulotu played in two cups in the world of TongaWorcester Warriors have signed Center Sione Tu'ipulotu and shore up George Potter of Plymouth Albion, after his promotion to the Premiership.
Tonga your ' international Tu'ipulotu of 32 year old recently was named player of the season Plymouth.
Porter, 21, won the Mike Turner Player most promising youth in Albion last season.
The former England under-18 international played in each of the games of Plymouth League, last season.
Sione Tu ' ipulotu, who has played in two World Cup for Tonga, in 1999 and 2007, previously played for Pontypool, Caerphilly, Newport Gwent Dragons.
He joined Plymouth in 2009 and has been a performer or star performer for the club during the last two seasons in bricks.
"I registered Sione since dragons and we are confident that you can make a big impact at Sixways and they join us in mainly playing as a centre," Richard Hill warriors coach told BBC Hereford and Worcester.
"Sione has been one of the main performers of Plymouth Albion the last two seasons."
George had an excellent year in the Championship and played almost every minute of Plymouth
Worcester coach Richard Hill
"It is a very powerful Centre and in the Premiership Aviva need these types of players because defences are so well drilling and strong," he added.

Injury: Joel Reddy. Image: Brett Costello source: The Daily Telegraph - Herald Sun

Injury: Joel Reddy. Image: Brett Costello source: The Daily Telegraph
It was a day for Parramatta busy yesterday after that lost Joel Reddy to a lesion of the pectoralis of end of season, signed the center of the coast of gold Esi Tonga, released controversial young Brad Murray and then Tom Humble had cleared to play after a load of drugs in the term.
Humble and former eels Brendan Oake were to serve as interim suspensions for testing positive to a banned stimulant.
An audience last night, retired judge Laurence Street said that he felt that the couple took the illegal agent unaware and since then it has fully cooperated with the World Anti-Doping Agency.
His suspension immediately ended with humble to play for new South Wales Cup this weekend.
Eels Chief Executive Paul Osborne said:
"I am really satisfied with both children, has been a difficult time for them and with Tom, let us hope that, not will it take long to return to the routine."

Tonga language to be tested - the Zimbabwe

HARARE – the Tonga language be tested in grade seven for the first time in Zimbabwe. (In the photo: David Coltart)

Five other languages are currently struggling to get tested by the Ministry of education, according to an official of the promotion of indigenous languages of Zimbabwe (ZILP).  Minister Coltart had agreed that Tonga proved by his Ministry at the level of grade seven at the end of this year, the official said.
This occurred after several consultations were held by people of Binga who asked why their language was marginalized. An estimated one million people used the daily language in that region.
The official said that the language would be tested under the regulation of ZIMSEC which regulates all examinations in the country.
"We also want other languages be recognised by the Government." I can actually say that other languages like Venda, Tonga, Kalanga and Nambu have been fighting for recognition and the Ministry has agreed in Tonga this year. "As you know language unites people and culture".

Fiji and Tonga: asylum's Island - The Economist

SEVERAL hundred years ago, the State of Fiji, the Pacific Islands was a place of refuge for the Princes exiled from neighbouring Tonga. It is now Tonga that serves as a destination for asylum-seekers blue-blooded of Fiji. Roko Tevita Uluilakeba Mara, son of the founder of the modern State, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara final, fled by sea, with the help of the Navy of Tonga.

 It is now under the protection of the use of homburg Tonga monarch, King George Tupou V, a distant relative of the father of the Mara Mr.
Contrasting fortunes switches does not end there. Tonga, long an autocratic monarchy, took a giant step towards democracy in November, when the country elected its first elected Government. Meanwhile, Fiji has entered into increasingly more authoritarian.

 Draconian public emergency regulations have been in force, with few let-ups, since a military coup in December 2006.
Until it was suspended in October, Mr Mara was commander of the regiment of Fiji. He had been a loyal ally of the coup leader and military Chief, Frank Bainimarama. Now in freedom in the capital of Tonga, Nuku'alofa Mr Mara denounces what he says is hurtful Commodore Bainimarama Government control exercised by the Attorney general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. It calls for regime change.