Pacific Beat

Tonga's sacked Finance Minister is asked to help prepare the national budget. Residents in Honiara prepare to tackle the city's rubbish problem with a cleanup this weekend at the National Referral Hospital

Tonga's prime minister Akilisi Pohiva defends his call to close down the country's public broadcaster. And, Papua New Guinea's coffee industry on high alert after the discovery of the Borer Beetle in the highlands.

Concern in Papua New Guinea's Milne Bay Province that poor health facilities could cause an outbreak of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis to spread and in the leadup to Papua New Guinea's national election later this year, researchers launch a database in Port Moresby with all the facts and figures about voting trends over the past 30 years.

Papua New Guinea confirms a major threat to its coffee crop. Another seasonal worker goes missing in Australia

With regional fishing authorities gathering in Noumea for talks brokered by the Pacific Community, there's a call for more action as dozens of Vietnamese blue boats are caught fishing illegally in New Caledonian waters and

Tonga's public broadcaster under attack from Prime Minister, Akilisi Pohiva, who wants it closed down for not supporting his government and the media fraternity in Samoa backs a plan by the National University to offer a journalism degree program.

Papua New Guinea's Chief Justice finds that the Manus Island Detention Centre is closed. A campaign to encourage more women to consider careers in the fishing industry.

Two years to the day since Vanuatu was devastated by Cyclone Pan, the road to recovery still has a long way to go and there are calls for more investment in dialysis across the Pacific, as kidney patients who could be saved continue to die.

Tonga's prime minister says he wants to close down the country's public broadcaster. And, the commonwealth launches an initiative to tackle the global problem of domestic violence.

Anger in Papua New Guinea as tensions bubble between locals and asylum seekers on Manus island and a Fiji opposition MP wants to see a return of special laws governing behaviour in iTaukei villages, such as women wearing trousers.