Cousins Niko, Elijah and Benji Tapueluelu have teamed up with Auckland-based Tongan-Kiwi singer Soakai "Solar" Malamala to bring their rendition of a Tongan classic: Pitu Taukae. Video / LopStream ...

A Tongan drug bust this month has put a spotlight on transnational criminal links in the Pacific, just as the island nation is about to host regional leaders for annual talks. Transnational crime is ...

Kava drinking, coffee drinking or plain old beer drinking, Storm skipper Harry Grant is chief organiser off the field as well ...

Isabella Murphy began rediscovering her cultural roots after her grandmother's funeral, where she was exposed to traditional Tongan practices. A designated language school has been set up in ...

A Lower East Side man who sank his life savings into a cafe selling tea with kava and kratom said the city has wrongly shut him down — asserting the beverages are “dangerous adulterants.” ...

Flights to Tonga land in an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, also known as the ‘place where time stands still’. Ancient traditions such as weaving and resolving conflicts over bowls of Kava sit ...

Sept 3 (Reuters) - Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni underscored the role of police to provide "freedom from fear" in democracies in a speech to Pacific Islands police chiefs on Tuesday ...

Tonga’s economic activity has strengthened driven by construction, strong remittances, and a recovery in tourism with real GDP projected to accelerate to 2.4 percent in FY2025, supported also by a ...

(Reuters) - Tonga's Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni underscored the role of police to provide "freedom from fear" in democracies in a speech to Pacific Islands police chiefs on Tuesday, noting the ...

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga — The contestant stood just offstage, nervously shifting in her stilettos. A pink dress clung to her muscular frame, and her hair was pinned back with red flowers.

Kava drinking, coffee drinking or plain old beer ... Second-rower Eliesa Katoa hasn't seen his mum and siblings, who live on a tiny Tongan island, since Christmas and says Grant and his Storm ...