Tagata o te Moana. 2011-08-20. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman, Radio New Zealand International. In this weeks programme:
Today, French Polynesia's politicians vote to have the territory put back on the UN's decolonisation list; Bougainville'ss ongoing struggle to contain violent former rebels; We note Sir Paul Reeves contribution to the Pacific; Cook Islands police struggle to solve a huge bank robbery and Japan allocates contracts to house US marines moving from Okinawa to Guam; Fiji police say a recent spike in reported sex crime has prompted the launch of campaign to try to stop more children becoming victims; Vanuatu's national Council of Churches hopes to meet with the government later this month to encourage it to hold more consultations before the country joins the World Trade Organisation; and A strange new species of eel has been discovered in a cave under the sea in the Republic of Palau.