Travelblog (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Here's the second instalment of my trip to Tokelau for their series of women's events in March. See the first instalment for the painful boat trip and an intro to the intriguing atolls of Tokelau.Day six SaturdayI rose early to get to the handicrafts market the main event of the economic summit. Tokelauan handicrafts are quite coveted several of my Samoan colleagues asked me to...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 03/19/2008
By MCENTEE, Claire NEW ZEALAND territories Niue and Tokelau are among the three worst offenders for relaying spam per head of population, according to security software firm Sophos.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Ko Chang, Tokelau Hey everyone! Well safely arrived in Bangkok on Friday morning after a rather hairy flight where a drunk passenger got a bit too 'merry', becoming very abusive and aggresive, and had to be handcuffed and arrested when we landed. All the more scary as we were flying to Bahrain at the time, but met some cool guys on the way who became...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/30/2007
A profile of the three-island territory in the South Pacific
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
UNITED NATIONS, October 26 (RIA Novosti) - Voters in Tokelau, a group of coral islets between New Zealand and Hawaii, have rejected self-government by a mere 16 votes in a United Nations-supervised referendum, the UN said Friday.
Linguanaut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/26/2007
I was first made aware of the result in a very early morning (UK time) e-mail written in Norwegian and English. Thanks ( Takk ) to the reader of the blog who sent that. There will be a lot of questions asked, no doubt, as well as soul searching and re-examination of national identity at this stage now that the result of the Tokelau referendum has been declared, particularly amongst the Fono...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
Tokelau has voted to remain a New Zealand colony by just 16 votes in a second close referendum. A two-thirds majority was needed for the South Pacific territory to decolonise and move towards self-governance in free association...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
Voters on the tiny Pacific island group of Tokelau reject a plan to break away from New Zealand.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
Tokelau has for the second time narrowly voted against becoming self-governing in free association with New Zealand. The results of a referendum on the future of Tokelau had today fallen short of the two thirds majority support...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
Wellington - Tokelau, a group of coral islets in the middle of the South Pacific that calls itself the last paradise on earth, has rejected independence in a referendum for the second time in 15 months and will remain a colony of New Zealand. A ballo...
Linguanaut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/25/2007
I have been informed by a reader of the blog of this news story which advises that the result is in: Tokelau is to stay a New Zealand dependency. The story says: New Zealand's small central Pacific colony of Tokelau has rejected self-government. After a week long ballot on the three atolls a majority of voters supported self-government, but not enough to carry it. In results just announced,...
Linguanaut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
I've been speaking of a 'yes' vote, but having found out the actual text of the ballot papers below, perhaps I should start referring to it as an 'agree' vote. This is what a specimen ballot paper should look for the election (from the Tokelau Government website in New Zealand; page on how to vote ): The text is as follows: Fakailoga Aloakia [Official Mark] PEPA PALOTA MO TE FAIGA PALOTA A TE...
Linguanaut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
Tokelau's top level domain name extension is .tk and Tokelau currently gets 10% of its GDP from sales of domain names ending with .tk . what has that got to do with you, the blog reader? Well, maybe you can get a .tk domain name too. The project has as a result got Tokelau finally connected to the internet, and brings income to the islands. You can get a .tk domain name here ....
Linguanaut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/24/2007
My knowledge of the Tokelauan language being non-existant, I can only hazard a guess that this is a song in praise of the islands, but rather nice it is too. (If it's not working, don't blame me; it's a feed from YouTube, which isn't always reliable)
Linguanaut.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/23/2007
If voting is successful in garnering enough support for independence, Tokelau is to become the world's youngest country. According to the United Nations , the last non-self-governing nation to become independent through self-determination was East Timor, now officially known as Timor-Leste (from the Portuguese for East Timor), which became independent in 2002, and joined the UN the same year....
