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...children and have spent nine months in Solomon Islands. Vei Koso is a senior corporal who specializes in prosecutions. He spends most of his time with the Solomon Islands police officers in Munda, pursuing new leads on old cases and imparting his accumulated knowledge of investigations. Polutele is from Tonga's Royal Protection Squad, which guards the king and his family. He shaves his head and leaves the top two buttons of his tight-fitting shirt undone to reveal the tattooed crucifix on his chest. His dark eyes seem to say, How ya doin', especially to women, and his wide...
...sparkling winter morning at Ha'atafu Beach on the northwestern tip of Tongatapu, the Kingdom of Tonga's main island, Sokoi Liava'a crouches on the shore and eyes the building swell with visible excitement. The forecasts that have been buzzing about the beach were right. After a week of flat or messy seas, clean 2-m waves are rolling in. The tall 25-year-old took up surfing eight months ago. He's unemployed now - a friend chips in that this is because Liava'a kept taking sick days to catch waves. Liava'a laughs this off, but without...
...Clearly, Tongans enjoyed bodysurfing. And they were good at it. Less clear is why, not long after Vason admired them, they abruptly dropped the pastime. Except for Vason's, missionaries' accounts of Tonga during the 1800s make no mention of fanifo or any aquatic activity that could be mistaken for it. What happened? The widely accepted theory is that someone convinced Tonga's ruling chiefs to ban the sport. That someone was not Vason, who arrived with eight others sent by the London Missionary Society. Amid civil war, three of Vason's colleagues were killed; the others fled. Vason...
...late as the early 1960s, you could still take a tonga (a horse-drawn cab) from Connaught Place and pass out of the city in minutes into this ruin-strewn countryside. Today, of course, things are different. In the past century, New Delhi's population has grown from some 200,000 to over 15 million, and the fate of those ruins is most uncertain in a city where one-quarter of the populace live in slums and one-third have no sanitation; city officials, understandably, have other priorities. Already, most of the ruins seen by Franklin have disappeared. Those that...
...Whaleswim Adventures, tel: (64-9) 372 7073, run six-, seven- and nine-day tours that feature opportunities to swim with humpback whales off the island of Vaka'eitu, near Vava'u in Tonga's north. To minimize environmental impact, each tour has a limit of 12 people, of whom only four (plus a qualified marine researcher-cum-guide) are allowed in the water at any one time...