On Tonga’s main island of Tongatapu, perhaps the biggest problem is the ash that has transformed it into a gray moonscape, contaminating the rainwater that people normally rely on to drink.

More than 160 years ago, slave ships arrived at Tonga's 'Ata Island. Bishop Silouan Silala Vea's ancestors were invited aboard for a meal in a gesture the villagers thought was "great hospitality" by ...

Eke, 64, also becomes chairman of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum, where Tonga has supported a region ... The nation of 107,000 people has external debt equivalent to 32% of its GDP, of ...