Tagata o te Moana. 2013-02-09. 17:30-18:00.

News from the Pacific presented by Don Wiseman of Radio New Zealand International. Programme content provided by broadcaster.

In this weeks programme:
We update the impact of the tsunami and earthquakes in eastern Solomon Islands; Papua New Guinea politicians get rid of controversial judicial laws but extend the grace period stopping votes of no confidence’ A call for more effort to tackle violence against women in Fiji; PNG's police chief wants to initiate discussions on how to stop violent acts in which the victims are accused of sorcery; A strategic analyst, Dr Paul Buchanan, says latest actions by the Fiji regime show it is not planning on a liberal democracy for the country in 2014; A judge in Samoa wants a register of sex offenders to publicly identify perpetrators; A stateless man who has been stranded in American Samoa for more than a year says he has US Immigration Department approval to return to the US mainland; A veteran Taiwanese fisherman has given an account of picking up drifting i-Kiribati fishermen lost at sea, and the luck it brings him.