Tagata o te Moana. 2010-10-02. 17:30-18:00.

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

The Northern Marianas Government is partially shut down for lack of a budget; The United States makes reassuring noises about improving its relationship with Fiji; Is the way aid is handed out undermining sovereignty in the Pacific; Concerns are on the rise about the increasing number of people in Fiji living below the poverty line; Pacific leaders have urged world leaders to urgently tackle climate change ahead of the next climate summit in Mexico in December; Strengthening trade opportunities for women entrepreneurs from the wider Pacific was the aim of a seminar hosted in New Zealand this week; Landowner efforts to halt construction of a pipeline to dump waste into the sea off Papua New Guinea's northeast coast will continue despite the lifting of an injunction on the project; New political coalitions are emerging in Samoa as the country looks to elections in March next year; The New Zealand volunteer aid organisation, Volunteer Service Abroad, is offering short-term assignments for the first time.