La Niña is officially underway in the Pacific, according to the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP). Tonga is among the countries in the South-West Pacific that will usually experience higher than normal rainfall, under these conditions that are likely to continue into the first quarter of 2021. The last La Niña conditions in the 2017-2018 season saw three cyclones in the Pacific- Gita, Hola and Fehi.
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          Saturday 10 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  A repatriation flight with 141 seasonal workers from Christchurch, New Zealand, arrived at Fua’amotu International Airport late Friday afternoon.
  
      
    
    
          Friday 9 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  HE Mr Tetsuya Ishii has completed his term in Tonga, after almost three-years as Japan’s Ambassador. A farewell reception was held at his 'Anana residence last night, October 8, where Mrs Ishii played Tongan songs on a flute.
  
      
    
    
          Friday 9 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  CoViD-19 tests are now being offered at Vaiola Hospital for travellers after the Health Services regulation to include CoViD-19 test fees was Gazetted yesterday afternoon.
  
      
    
    
          Friday 9 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  Seven men have pleaded guilty to charges that included jointly cultivating 2665 cannabis plants [99.6 kgs] at a tax allotment in Holonga, Vava’u.
  
      
    
    
          Friday 9 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  A 33-year-old man was arrested with 11 packs of methamphetamine (4.02 grams) on Vuna Road at Ma’ufanga on Wednesday, 7 October.
  
      
    
    
          Friday 9 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  A man was convicted at the Nuku’alofa Supreme Court for indecent assault and sexual domestic violence of a young girl in Tongatapu. He is detained in police custody for sentencing on October 29.
  
      
    
    
          Friday 9 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
   
  Kigali, Rwanda
  Health-care delivery in nearly every country has been disrupted by policymakers’ mistaken initial assumption that health systems would quickly win the fight against COVID-19. As the pandemic’s caseload and death toll are increasing daily, it is often stalling or reversing hard-won progress on minimizing the impact of other diseases, from diabetes to malaria. By Anatole Manzi.
  
      
    
    
          Thursday 8 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  Tonga's Cabinet has approved fees for CoViD-19 testing for outbound passengers travelling from Tonga to another country, confirmed Attorney General Linda Folaumoetui today.
  
      
    
    
          Thursday 8 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  Nine farm tractors and eight fishing boats donated by China, were handed over to Tonga today at an official ceremony at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, Forests and Fisheries (MAFFF) office, Ma’ufanga.
  
      
    
    
          Thursday 8 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  A total of 57 people were issued with new infringement notices and penalties in Tongatapu for not wearing seatbelts, the use of mobile phones while driving and other offences between October 1-4. A total of 1,900 vehicles were stopped during this Tonga Police operation. Two received notices for causing excessively loud music while driving.
  
      
    
    
          Thursday 8 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  A new building for Tonga Post was opened on October 6 in Neiafu, Vava'u, next to the Governor's Office.
  
      
    
    
          Thursday 8 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  The European Union has approved the disbursement of EUR 2.15 million (approx. 5.8 million pa'anga) to the Tongan Government to support renewable energy and energy efficiency.
  
      
    
    
          Thursday 8 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
   
  New York, USA
  Without a vaccine, COVID-19 won't "go away" through a strategy of herd immunity. Two scientific case studies have already confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 can reinfect an individual and that our immunity to coronaviruses is alarmingly short-lived. I have previously called herd immunity a “reckless and ineffective strategy.” Now that COVID-19 reinfections are not just a possibility, but a reality, I would add “lethal” to my description. By William A. Haseltine
  
      
    
    
          Wednesday 7 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
   
  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  Both matches in the Trans-Tasman Bledisloe Cup battle between the New Zealand All Blacks and Australian Wallabies will be broadcast live in Tonga on October 11th and 18th, Digicel TV announced today.
  
      
    
    
          Wednesday 7 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
   
  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  COVID-19 is likely to have less impact on world trade in the Asia Pacific region than elsewhere in 2020, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO).
  
      
    
    
          Wednesday 7 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  Loketi Malie (39) is serving one-year three-months imprisonment for seriously harming a 56-year-old man, whom he hit on the leg with a piece of sandalwood in Futu, ‘Eua.
  
      
    
    
          Wednesday 7 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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  Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  The 29-year-old Police Constable who was arrested and charged with the rape and indecent assault of an 18-year-old young woman while she was in police custody, remains detained and will appear in the Magistrate's Court on October 12.
  
      
    
    
          Tuesday 6 October 2020    
    
  
          
            
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  Auckland, New Zealand
  Junior Fa and Joseph Parker will go to battle this December 11 in Auckland, New Zealand. The fight was confirmed this morning in Auckland at a press conference attended by both fighters and their promoters.
  
      
    
    
          Tuesday 6 October 2020    
    
  
          
          
  
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    Nuku'alofa, Tonga
  Police have arrested and charged a total of 3,023 people to date, since the start of the Police COVID19 Operation on March 28, when the State of Emergency was declared in Tonga. This included 1,380 arrests for breaches of the National Emergency Lockdown Notice and the Restriction Notice.
  
        
