Tagata o te Moana. 2009-07-25

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

Fiji's interim government is accused of overstepping the mark with the Methodist church;
A church service will be held in Kiribati to remember the victims of the region's worst recent maritime disaster;
A claim that China's aid policy in the Pacific lacks a comprehensive strategy;
Confusion remains over how many people have been killed or wounded near the giant Freeport mine in Papua;
Veteran French Polynesian politician, Gaston Flosse, has ben stripped of his immunity as a French senator;
New road projects in Vanuatu seen as a boost for economic development there;
A spat between the Cook Islands Government and a New Zealand Mayor over Muri Lagoon.