Tagata o te Moana. 2012-10-06. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman of Radio New Zealand International.

In this weeks programme:
Fiji's government has 3 weeks to prove its record on workers' rights to the US; the Samoan government purchases a regional shipping service; vocal NGO's speak at Fiji's constitutional commission; PNG's anti-corruption body likely to make more arrests; PNG to raise human rights abuses in Papua with Jakarta; The extraordinary financial affairs surrounding French Polynesia's publicly owned OPT telecommunications company in court; Action on the region's significant fisheries resource; Uproar in the Solomon Islands over a cartoon referencing the Duchess of Cambridge's dress mix-up; The Samoan government is in the process of purchasing all shares in the Pacific Forum Line shipping company; The Solomon Islands prime minister is being pressured to demand an apology from the Cook Islands government over a cartoon mocking the Duchess of Cambridge's dress controversy; A Pacific micro-finance institution has this week opened its third office in Tonga, with a new office in Ha'apai; and Samoa's top-ranked female tennis player is turning pro and wants to test herself on the world stage.

A pacific microfinance institution expands in Tonga

And Samoa's top ranked tennis player turns pro.