The Latest Breaking News from Tonga

In 1989, distinguished Australian geographer Gerard Ward wrote that the Pacific was emptying out. As people on smaller islands left to seek opportunity elsewhere, the region risked becoming Earth’s empty quarter. He wrote:

China said it held a video meeting to discuss police cooperation with several Pacific island nations on Tuesday, with at least two nations telling Reuters their ministers and police commissioners were unavailable to attend.

A deadly volcanic eruption near Tonga in January was the largest ever recorded with modern equipment, a New Zealand-led team of scientists revealed Monday. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted underwater with a force equivalent to hundreds of atomic bombs, unleashing a 15-meter (50-foot) tsunami which demolished homes and killed…

WELLINGTON: A deadly volcanic eruption near Tonga in January was the largest ever recorded with modern equipment, a New Zealand-led team of scientists said on Monday.

A team of scientists — with the help of an uncrewed boat remotely controlled from the UK – join forces to produce one of the clearest pictures to date of what took place underneath the water as an enormous volcano erupted near the Tongan mainland.

Less than a year ago, Tonga was the unranked underdog of world netball. Now they're a top 10 team with a World Cup on the horizon.

The huge earthquake rocked the sea around 130 miles south-east of Tonga and tsunami warnings have been issued for American Samoa and surrounding regions

The government of Tonga asked citizens to move inland early on Saturday after an earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck the sea around 211 km (131 miles) from the capital, though a tsunami warning issued for Tonga and American Samoa was lifted.

It's not just New Zealand who have a pre-match war dance

After an epic World Cup battle that ended with Samoa claiming the honours against their arch-rivals, Tonga, rugby league has a lottery ticket it must cash in.

The teen sensation produced a brilliant display as Samoa defied the odds in a brutal classic contest to set up a semi-final with England, but could be hit with a ban alongside captain Junior Paulo