Tonga

Tongans will find out who their next prime minister will be this week.

A Tongan official says the country is doing all it can to bring home about 700 workers stuck in New Zealand, but will wait till it is safe. Audio

A leading women's rights activist in Tonga is calling for electoral reforms after all 12 women candidates failed to win a seat in last week's national election.

Police in Tonga have arrested two more people in connection to an ongoing cocaine operation.

A prominent lawyer in Tonga says a petition to the king over the controversial acting Chief Justice appointment appears to have come to nothing.

Hundreds of Tongan seasonal workers from the RSE scheme are stranded in New Zealand desperate to get home.

'Ikale Tahi coach Toutai Kefu believes Tonga are capable of making the Rugby World Cup quarter-finals, if eligibility rules were to change.

Tonga have made five changes to their starting fifteen to face Romania in the final match of their Northern Hemisphere rugby tour.

Tonga has elected an all-male parliament, with nine new faces coming in via the 17 People's Representative seats.

Polling stations in Tonga's general election are now closed, and the Election Commission says preliminary running results will be announced later tonight.

The Tonga men's rugby team is targeting a more disciplined performance when they take on a French Barbarians selection in Lyon this weekend.