"Taiwan and the Marshall Islands share a traditional Austronesian culture as well as the values of freedom and democracy," Lai told Heine, speaking through an interpreter. Lai's first overseas ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - We start our new series with Hawaii’s little-known connection to Taiwan, an island in East Asia ..

Tonga is an island country in the South Pacific with ... Tonga was first inhabited about 3,000 years ago by Austronesian but has since largely remained an independent and sovereign nation within ...

In 1862, Japan took control and called the islands Ogasawara. Ethnic Japanese joined the melting pot, and European and Austronesian languages resulted in a Creole English called Bonin English that ...