Tagata o te Moana. 2009-10-24

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:

A fast by Tongan women is largely ignored by the Tonga government and media;
The rebuilding of houses destroyed in Samoa could begin this weekend;
Some other efforts to raise funds for the victims of the tsunami in Samoa;
A province in New Caledonia is going back to the polls after the French Supreme Court annulled the results;
The World Bank steps in to provide work for unemployed youth in Solomon Islands;
Government initiatives aim to rescue the Niue economy;
A NZ government MP calls for a rethink on New Zealand's relationship with Niue, the Cook Islands and New Zealand's last colony Tokelau;
The French Polynesian veteran politician, Gaston Flosse, has been allowed to keep his two seats as French senator and French Polynesian assembly member.
Source: Radio New Zealand iNEWS.