Tagata o te Moana. 2008-12-06

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:

NGOs and political parties in Fiji unite against the military regime;
A meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in South Korea in the coming week will try to get agreement on reducing some tuna catches;
Two Papuan refugees go back to Indonesia;
Bougainville is electing a new President;
A campaign to cut the consumption of illegally distilled liquor, known as kwaso, in Solomon Islands;
Niue is rapped over the knuckles for overspending;
The first of several thousand people from the remote Carteret Islands off Bougainville in Papua New Guinea are expected to move to a new settlement on the main island early next year because their islands are disappearing, attributed to both subsidence and climate change.