Tagata o te Moana. 2009-10-10

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 relief effort by local and regional Governments, regional agencies, NGOs and individuals in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga hit by the tsunami last week;
Revelations that Fiji's tsunami warning machinery has been lying idle in a warehouse for three years;
Fears of more tsunamis after big quakes near Vanuatu came to nothing;
Papua New Guinea MPs try to deal with the tensions that sparked anti-Chinese riots;
A Tonga women's group wants the Prime Minister to resign because he doesn't back the UN Convention for the Elimination of All Discrimination Against Women;
Concerns that Palau's new anti shark fishing laws won't last;
The danger, for the unfit, posed by the tough Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea.
Source: Radio New Zealand iNEWS.