Tonga

Fiji will host the men's and women's Oceania Regional Qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Sevens Competitions.

More than half of the players who attended the World Rugby Pacific Combine are tipped to earn professional contracts overseas.

The King of Tonga, Tupou VI, has appointed Linda Simiki Folaumoetu'i as the country's new attorney general.

Tonga's King Tupou VI and his wife Queen Nanasipau'u were welcomed to Government House in Wellington today by New Zealand's Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy.

Parramatta forward and Tongan international Peni Terepo has escaped the sack after being suspended for two NRL matches and fined $NZ25,000 for a drunken incident earlier this month.

The Tonga government says legislation the opposition has blocked are the same measures the last noble dominated administration passed in 2014.

A spokesman for the Tonga government says a directive by King Tupou VI on Monday for investigations following several anti government petitions is what the prime minister had called for a month ago.

Tonga's King Tupou VI has referred three petitions criticising the government to the ombudsman, the attorney general and the police commissioner.

A Tonga noble MP says the acting speaker was well within his rights to allow consultation over controversial government legislation.

Tonga, with the help of aid donors, the Asian Development Bank, Australia and New Zealand, aims to build the largest solar plant in the south Pacific.

A Tongan Noble MP says Tongans will get a chance to give their views on controversial bills the government has been trying to push through parliament under urgency.