Tagata o te Moana. 2009-10-17

Tagata o te Moana is a weekly half-hour round-up of news about 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:

Women in Tonga protest at their treatment by the Government;
Emergency aid continues to arrive in the Samoas and Tonga following last month's tsunami, which claimed more than 180 lives;
The plight of children abandoned in Papua New Guinea's main city, Port Moresby;
Niue and New Zealand are to look at a package of ideas to boost tourism next week;
Arrangements are being finalised for the repatriation to Indonesia of about 400 Port Moresby-based West Papuan refugees;
Vanuatu and Solomon Islands have both significantly reduced the number of people suffering from malaria;
In the Federated States of Micronesia, Yap State's first canoe festival gets underway next week.
Source: Radio New Zealand iNEWS.