Funerals are of enormous cultural significance in the Kingdom of Tonga In contrast with the taboos regarding death in Western society death in the Kingdom of Tonga follows a highly ritualized grieving ...

The massive Tonga eruption generated a set of planet-circling tsunamis that may have started out as a single mound of water roughly the height of the Statue of Liberty. What’s more, the explosive ...

A volcanic eruption in the South Pacific was so powerful that its shockwaves left the planet and reached space, new research shows. The 2022 underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha‘apai eruption, one of the ...

Pesi Siale Fonua, a veteran Pacific journalist and the publisher-editor of Tonga’s leading news website, Matangi Tonga Online, has died aged 78. Fonua’s family made the announcement yesterday. “It is ...