Tagata o te Moana. 2008-11-15

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2008
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Duration
00:30:00
Broadcast Date
15 Nov 2008
Credits
RNZ Collection
Wiseman, Don
UNICEF
Radio New Zealand International

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:

Fiji's interim regime is ordered by the courts to stop work on its Peoples' Charter;
Expatriate pensioners in French Polynesia rebel over superannuation cuts planned by Paris;
Ongoing concerns about the plan to dump mine tailings in a bay in Papua New Guinea;
Niue is to try again to bring in a consumption tax;
Educators in Papua New Guinea are calling on the community to help all children attend school;
Up to 24 doctors at the LBJ hospital in Pago Pago who practice medicine under a foreign certificate, are told they must meet US standards to continue their employment;
A new UNICEF reports says the Pacific is falling behind its goal of reducing child mortality rates by two-thirds by 2015;
A Swiss national, Xavier Rosset, is trying to survive on a Tonga island without any "mod cons" for ten months.