Selling the day's catch on Tongatapu, Tonga. Small business, particularly retail establishments on Tongatapu, is now dominated by recent Chinese immigrants. Rural Tongans rely mainly on subsistence agriculture and have coconut, vanilla beans and banana plantations. © Ilan Kelman, 2004

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