Overstayers are said to be paying hundreds of dollars for fraudulent citizenship certificates.

A group of Chinese investors are understood to be the main contenders hoping to buy the Tongan royal residence in Auckland.

I've always felt that food was one of the great reasons to travel. But you'd have to say that until relatively recently it wasn't top of the list of reasons for visiting the South Pacific.

A New Zealand-based Tongan man who lost friends in the Princess Ashika ferry tragedy in Tonga says the sentences handed to three of the men found guilty over the incident are a joke.

Four men and a shipping company found guilty of 30 charges relating to the 2009 sinking of the Tongan ferry Princess Ashika, in which 74 people died, will be sentenced today.

Families of the passengers whose lives were lost in Tonga's Princess Ashika ferry tragedy feel they have got some justice.

Kiwis' nerves fray after a tsunami alert and an earthquake off Tonga.

A 10-metre-high tsunami ploughed into the Japanese coast on Friday, dashing ships into the shore, washing away houses and leaving devastation in its wake.

Pacific island nations now occupy the top seven places in the World Health Organisation's global obesity rankings.