Tagata o te Moana. 2009-09-05

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 Don Wiseman and the items are:

The death toll from illnesses in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province is put at more than 400;
Samoans prepares to drive on the other side of the road;
Fiji's military regime is unmoved by a Commonwealth ban;
The Fiji media ban may have been eased for some operators;
An Indonesian perspective on its territory of Papua;
Sea level rise is blamed for a food shortage on the low-lying Reef Islands in Solomon Islands; Stalking may be made a criminal offence in American Samoa;
Concerns that funds raised for Tonga ferry disaster victims will not be transparenly handled.