Pita Taufatofua first went viral for representing Tonga as a flag bearer while shirtless and oiled-up during the 2016 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Don't expect to see Tongan Olympian Pita Taufatofua ...

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When Celina Tupou-Fulivai’s family in the South Pacific nation of Tonga started sending her photos and videos of irregular water patterns in the ocean and live footage of the skies turning dark with ...

The isolation of island states paradoxically makes them at once vulnerable but also resilient. With smaller populations and dependence on access through shipping or air routes, island states, ...

HONOLULU— Soldiers of the 9th Mission Support Command Task Force Oceania’s Pacific Augmentation Team-Tonga conducted a civil engagement with Tongan scholarship students from Brigham Young ...

As the international relief effort carries on for a still-reeling Tonga, 176 Asian American and Pacific Islander groups are urging President Joe Biden to do more. After a volcanic eruption and tsunami ...

Some little kids grow up dreaming of being pilots. Silva McLeod wasn’t one of them. During her childhood on the Tongan island of Vava’u, she didn’t even know that being a pilot was a possible career.

PLEASANT GROVE — For many Tongans, the route to financial success comes from leaving the Polynesian nation to find work elsewhere. That can take a toll on families, though, and a new Utah company, ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk wants to know if Tongan residents would like him to save them from their potentially month-long internet blackout. The small pacific island nation was the site of a horrific ...

It's still hard for people to find out about the status of their loved ones in Tonga after the recent volcanic eruption nearby. One family in Alaska worries about friends and family thousands of miles ...

The kingdom and its diaspora credit their Christian faith for the low number of casualties. When he heard the first boom, Feʻilaokitau Kaho Tevi was in line to get his car washed in Tonga’s capital ...