Joses Tuhanuku was born on 1 January 1952 and is a Solomon Islands politician and former trade union leader.
12 Facts About Joses Tuhanuku
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Joses Tuhanuku served three terms in Parliament before losing his seat in the 2006 general election.
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Joses Tuhanuku was first elected to the National Parliament in the 1989 general election, as MP for the Rennell-Bellona constituency.
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Joses Tuhanuku was re-elected in 1993, but lost in 1997 to Joses Tahua.
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Joses Tuhanuku won reelection in 2002, but lost his seat in the 2006 election to Seth Gukuna.
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Joses Tuhanuku was offered $10,000 by Tony Yeong, an employee of the Berjaya Group, one of Malaysia's biggest business empires.
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Joses Tuhanuku sought "a full internal investigation into the company's accounts" upon being informed by the company's internal auditor that she suspected its managing director, Mike Hemmer, of misappropriating millions of dollars of funds.
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Joses Tuhanuku subsequently sacked Hemmer, with the approval of the board of directors.
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Joses Tuhanuku divorced his first English wife - Anna Craven - who now lives in England.
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Joses Tuhanuku's Australian-born wife, Mary-Louise O'Callaghan, is a journalist covering the Pacific region.
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Joses Tuhanuku won an award for reporting on the Bougainville crisis and the corruption of the Papua New Guinea government.
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Joses Tuhanuku was credited for exposing the Sandline affair which resulted in the toppling of Prime Minister Sir Julius Chan's government in PNG and shook up the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.