Full Coverage: Tonga

28.11.2006 Indymedia activists report from Tonga, where riots broke out this month calling for democratic reforms. The demonstrators argue that the monarchy and current economic system only benefit the country's top 1 percent.

08.04.2003 Tonga has introduced a tough new media law which the government says cannot be subject to judicial review, a media watchdog reported yesterday.

07.03.2003 Many small Pacific islands have made remarkable progress in increasing the volume of local TV programming being broadcast to local audiences, finds a recent Unesco survey. One channel in Tonga, for example, is broadcasting almost exclusively local production.

18.02.2002 A proposal by an Australia-based biotechnology company to establish a database of genetic information on the people of the tiny South Pacific nation of Tonga is floundering in the face of strong opposition from church and human rights groups.