Pacific Beat

TV interview requests are still rolling in for Tonga's flag-bearer who stole the show at the Rio Olympics opening ceremony. And, plaudits from their coach for Fiji's soccer team after they gave the Olympic champions Mexico a huge scare.

Fijiana takes on Great Britain in the quarter finals of the inaugural Olympic Women's Rugby Sevens tournament. And, how high-speed internet has revolutionised life on Naviso, a remote village on Vanuatu's Maewo island.

Landowners at the heart of the LNG project at Hides in the Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands are following through with threats to shut it down after seeing no movement in the millions of dollars in outstanding royalties being paid. In an unprecedented move, all Russian athletes have been banned from next month's Rio Paralympic Games, saying it makes a powerful statement against doping in sport.

Rugby-loving Fijians don't have too long to wait now before their sevens teams go into action at the Olympic Games in Rio. Concerns in Port Moresby about the introduction of fines for chewing betelnut.

Fiji's soccer team is ready to make their Olympic debut in a few hours and the Women's Rugby Sevens tournament kicks off tomorrow. And, the remarkable tale of a young Australian accountant from Woollongong who's won a Pacific island resort in a lottery.

The trial of 11 former MPs and a lawyer charged over their attempt grant themselves pardons for corruption offences is underway in Port Vila. In New Caledonia, more than a thousand indigenous Kanak people took to the streets of the capital yesterday, calling for better access to jobs.

Concerns for Vanuatu's tourist industry after renewed runway problems at Port Vila's Bauerfield airport. And, we find out what really happened at PNG Air office in Alotau earlier this week after police said it was a hoax that women staff members were held hostage.

The details of what exactly happened in Papua New Guinea's tourist town of Alotau on Monday are becoming clearer. Unitech in Lae to reopen later this month, following campus violence in June.

Shareholders urged to vote against Exxon's billion dollar takeover bid for PNG's InterOil. And, Toea Wisil, the fastest woman in the Pacific, combines her Olympic preparations with catching up on the education she was denied as a child.