Tagata o te Moana. 2010-09-18. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman, Radio New Zealand International. In this weeks programme:

Voters in Tuvalu have been to the polls; Last year's tsunami victims in American Samoa are still waiting for the release of donations; Tongan people in New Zealand keen to vote in the November election; What are the benefits of a New Zealand police training programme in Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces; New research by the United Nations Childrens Fund has revealed millions of lives world wide could be saved by more focussed aid spending; Transparency International in Vanuatu says it believes there is little hope the new commander of the Vanuatu Mobile Force can bring a change to its attitude and behaviour; A long-time member of French Polynesia's pro-independence movement, Sabrina Birk, has quit politics, strongly critical of her former party; French Polynesia has lost one of its local heros, a fisherman named Tava'e Raioaoa, who has died after a long illness; "Verses" is the latest performance by the New Zealand dance group, Black Grace, largely inspired by short works penned by its Samoan founder and director.