By Staff 11/19/06 9:46pm

The News From Nuku’alofa

Those of us who love a tiny Polynesian nation in the South Pacific are distressed by the reports out of Tonga of anti-royalist riots that have left at least six dead and destroyed the downtown of Nuku’alofa, the capital of the country.

The best pictures of the riots’ aftermath are on Matangi Tonga. My Read More

By Staff 7/04/06 11:51am

Taking Communion in Tonga

The King of Tonga turned 88 today. Four years ago the New Zealand papers had him dying, still he keeps going.

I bring him up because I wrote a book about the murder of a Peace Corps volunteer by another Peace Corps volunteer in Tonga in 1976, a murder the King helped Read More