Tagata o te Moana. 2008-11-08

Tagata o Te Moana is a weekly round up of news from the Pacific from Radio New Zealand International, broadcast on Radio NZ National on Saturdays at 5.30pm.
This week's edition is presented by Don Wiseman and the items are:

Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Marianas have all held elections this week, while Palau held a presidential vote;
There are plans to rehouse Fiji's tens of thousands of squatters within five years;
Vanuatu, which provided the most workers in the first year of NZ's Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme, expects to send several hundred more in the new season;
Renewed urgency in negotiations between the Pacific bloc of the African Carribean and Pacific group and the European Union over Economic Partnership Agreements, or EPAs;
The Pacific Islands Forum-Fiji Joint Working Group has resumed meeting;
Fiji's interim regime rejects charges it intimidates its opponents;
The World Bank warns Pacific governments they need to do much more to cater for their young people;
The French Polynesian assembly has refused to endorse a claim by the territory's veteran leader, Gaston Flosse, that more than three million US dollars in questionable expenditure was for the public good.