While Tonga is a safe destination, it's wise to follow local guidelines, especially regarding maritime activities and ...

On the streets of the main island Tongatapu, blue skies filled with ash clouds and the loud bangs of the earth cracking open. Many terrified locals began to pray. The details of the Hunga-Tonga ...

Tonga is starting the new year with a new prime minister. Parliament elected him in a special session on Christmas Eve. HPR’s ...

Tonga has elected a new leader by secret ballot in parliament, two weeks after the previous prime minister abruptly resigned, ...

Stealthy, solitary and elusive–this lizard, endemic to the Tongan Islands of the South Pacific–was rumored to have special powers by native Tongans. It was said that, when a tribesman spotted ...

Tonga’s parliament has elected Aisake Eke as the country’s new prime minister. The vote came in a special session of the ...

A developing country of some 106,000 people spread across dozens of islands, Tonga's debt-laden government is seen as particularly vulnerable to economic pressure from China. The island kingdom ...

SYDNEY, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Tongan Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni has resigned "for the good of the country and moving Tonga forward", the Pacific Island nation's parliament said on Monday.

A developing country of some 106,000 people spread across dozens of islands, Tonga's debt-laden government is seen as particularly vulnerable to economic pressure from China. The island kingdom ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Tonga’s Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni abruptly resigned in parliament on Monday ahead of a planned no-confidence vote in his leadership, capping a period of ...

Tonga's MPs have elected former finance minister ... over the amount of government spending at the recent Pacific Islands Forum meeting, the performance of domestic airline Lulutai, and concerns ...