Tagata o te Moana. 2013-05-04. 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:

1. Three political parties in Fiji have succeeded in gaining registration under the regime's controversial new rules on political parties.

2. Political apathy among Fiji's young people is the biggest hindrance to revving up opposition to the regime's draft constitution.

3. Police and customs officials in New Caledonia are preparing for the arrival of the superyacht, the Phocea, which left Vanuatu yesterday after being detained for nearly ten months.

4. Voters in French Polynesia will go to the polls on Sunday local time to elect a new 57-member assembly for a five-year term.

5. There is scepticism in Papua New Guinea that the government's plans to implement the death penalty in a bid to deter violent crimes against women, will work.

6. Samoa's new Crimes Act, which introduces harsher penalties for most sexual offences, comes into force May 1st.

7. Vale Joseph Churchward, a late Samoan-born typeface designer who shunned the tools of the digital age but was revered by the international design community lives on in fonts used by millions of people every day.