As offensive lineman Atonio Mafi transitions from UCLA to the NFL, he is sharing his journey with Times staff writer Ben Bolch through a weekly diary leading up to the April 27 draft. This week, Mafi ...

Lisa grew up in a small rural village in Tonga. Her family are farmers and the 23-year-old lived a simple life. But she always dreamed of something bigger. So when a Tongan woman living in China ...

Still from Walking Backwards into the Future (courtesy Anna Weinreich) The 19th-century clubs from Tonga now in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art were created as narrative objects, ...

The Kingdom of Tonga exploded into global news on January 15 last year with one of the most spectacular and violent volcanic eruptions ever seen. Remarkably, it was caused by a volcano that lies under ...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea—Pita Taufatofua’s mission over the past 12 months was to learn a sport from scratch and make it all the way to the Olympics. When he picked cross-country skiing last year, ...

The opening ceremony at the Winter Olympics will be slightly less interesting this time around. Pita Taufatofua, the shirtless Tongan flag bearer who won the hearts of viewers around the world during ...

WELLINGTON, Jan 20 (Reuters) - A 57-year-old Tongan man who said he swam around 27 hours after getting swept out to sea during Saturday’s devastating tsunami has been hailed a 'real life Aquaman'. The ...

The Tongan Tala national women's netball team travel to Glasgow this week to compete at the Commonwealth Games, ready to face the best.

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) has revealed its main ...

Daniel Tupou has become the first player to score a hat-trick in his 300th NRL game, saluting in front of Tongan royalty to take the Sydney Roosters to a 28-12 win over Parramatta.