Pacific Beat

The ten-year old mystery surrounding the disappearance of an entire family in Fiji appears to have been solved. A meeting of international parliamentarians calls for a supervised vote on independence in West Papua. PNG urged to outline plans to close the Manus detention centre to the UN Human Rights Council.

Students at the University of Papua New Guinea stage an indefinite strike over Prime Minister Peter O'Neill refusal to answer to fraud allegations against him and a report describing the situation in West Papua as a 'slow motion genocide' will launch in the Indonesian province this week.

A major credit ratings agency forecasts slower economic growth in PNG. Shocking new details emerge about the death of an asylum seeker, who set himself alight in Nauru.

The Baby Samoans take it to the wire as they win back their place in the under 20 World Cup with a nail-biting win against Spain in the final of the under 20 Trophy in Zimbabwe and week-long talks on region's troubled US fishing treaty end without a resolution in sight.

An Australian man sentenced to 14 years jail for drug possession in Fiji. PNG's Dame Carol Kidu wins an injunction against a documentary film maker. Criticism of the ferry bought by the New Zealand government to service Tokelau.

A suspended Tongan journalist says Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva told her it's her job to support the government and in Vanuatu where protests in support of the Free West Papua movement are planned ahead of the Melanesian Spearhead Group leaders meeting in Port Vila.

Fears on Manus Island about the economic impact of the closure of the Australian government's detention centre. The controversy surrounding next week's Melanesian Spearhead Groups leaders summit intensifies with Fiji's Prime Minister pulling out. A suspended Tongan journalist says she was told her job is to support the government.

We'll get more reaction to the Supreme Court decision in PNG - declaring the Australian run immigration detention centre on Manus Island is illegal. An Iranian refugee set himself alight in Nauru. Is there such a thing as economic apartheid in the Pacific as the wage gap between local and foreign workers continues to expand.

Australia's immigration minister Peter Dutton has told the media this morning that Australia's detention centre on Nauru has room for 850 men after the imminent closure by Papua New Guinea of Australia's Manus Island detention centre. We speak to Former president and Nauru MP Sprent Dabwido.

The opposition in Fiji fails to persuade Parliament to look at re-establishing the Great Council of Chiefs. And, despite fraud investigations swirling around the Tonga rugby union, the man poised to take over as full time chairman says their focus is making sure the Ikale Tahi qualify for the 2019 World Cup in Japan.