The measles continues to wreak havoc across the Pacific; Confronting the 'double headed' health crisis in the Pacific; There's a warning from the newly arrived Behrouz Boochani that people will die in a PNG asylum seeker camp; A Solomon diplomat aims to push the Pacific voice at the UN; The Marshall Islands president weighs up another shot at the top post; Rights advocates decry Cook Islands same sex relations ban; The Cook Islands Democratic Party says language as a way to re-populate the outer islands; Manusina rugby coach laments player unavailability.

Authorities in Samoa scramble to contain a measles epidemic believed to have killed three people; The Marshall Islands mulls legal action over leaking nuclear waste, while people living near a nickel spill in PNG say it's ruined their livelihoods; Two men have been charged with the killing of a Micronesian attorney general; Tonga announces an inquiry into a controversial development; Fiji cane farmers turn to other crops because of plummeting sugar prices; And, we look at the legacy of blackbirding and slavery in Tokelau.

Authorities in Samoa scramble to contain a measles epidemic believed to have killed three people; The Marshall Islands mulls legal action over leaking nuclear waste, while people living near a nickel spill in PNG say it's ruined their livelihoods; Two men have been charged with the killing of a Micronesian attorney general; Tonga announces an inquiry into a controversial development; Fiji cane farmers turn to other crops because of plummeting sugar prices; We look at the legacy of blackbirding and slavery in Tokelau;

Measles from New Zealand's epidemic is spreading to the Pacific; The defence force is preparing for a climate change induced influx of regional fishing vessels; Solomon Islands Attorney General puts a stop to a Chinese company's attempt to lease an island in Central Province; Beijing says the construction of a sports stadium in Solomon Islands will be its gift to the country; And a senior MFAT official has hit back at suggestions the ministry lacks development expertise; Aust and NZ govts called on to help fund Pacific rugby; Dozens of children are missing in Fiji and authorities say this is mainly due to social problems experienced by young people at home; The Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea calls out Australian cruelty at Bomana.

Samoa's Health Ministry says the tragic death of a toddler this week is "highly suspected" to be due to measles, based on clinical assessment and evaluation; arrest warrant issued for former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O'Neill; Vanuatu and Cook Islands want the UN to make it easier for vulnerable low-lying states to access climate financing; descendants of Tahitian navigator Tupaia want the record set straight on his travels with Captain James Cook on the Endeavour.; the names of six Cook Islands First World War soldiers will be added to the New Zealand and Commonwealth War Graves Commission's official rolls of honour; there's confusion in Solomon Islands over the signing of an agreement between Central Province and a Chinese developer; a small undersea volcano and previously uncharted rocks and reefs feature in the thirty-thousand-gigabytes of undersea data the New Zealand High Commission in Nuku'alofa presented to the Tonga government last week; Niueans across New Zealand are celebrating their culture and language.

Kiribati ferry disaster report does little to ease relatives' anger; Suspect measles case in Samoa connected to Auckland outbreak; Call for Jihadis to go to Papua following unrest; French Polynesia centre-stage at UN decolonisation committee; A new meke launched in Auckland for Fiji language week.

Last week's grim report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has scientists based in the Pacific calling for more action; Pasifika pre-schoolers living in Counties Manukau have been identified as the most vulnerable section of the population in the Auckland's measles outbreak; A report compiled by a Commission of Inquiry into a ferry disaster in Kiribati last year, which killed as many as 81 people, has finally been released; Tonga's Prime Minister-designate, Pohiva Tu'i'onetoa, says he is fostering a spirit of co-operation and reconciliation to help the country move forward; Indonesia's government has told the United Nations that other countries must respect its sovereignty in West Papua; Samoa's Yuki Kihara is to be the first Pasifika artist to represent New Zealand at the world's most prestigious art show; Pacific teams at the Rugby World Cup have reached the decisive stage of their campaigns, with all three in need of big wins to maintain a mathematically slight chance of making the quarterfinals.

About 40,000 people marched through New Zealand's capital on Friday,joining the worldwide movement of strikes and protests against climate change; Dozens more people were killed in renewed violence in Indonesian-ruled West Papua this week; Tonga's Parliament on Friday elected a new prime minister to replace the late Prime Minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva; It's been 10 years since the massive earthquake and tsunamis that devastated much of the south coast of the two Samoas and Tonga's northern most islands; A sacked government minister in Solomon Islands says his country's switch from Taiwan to China was pre-determined;We speak with our reporter Vinnie Wylie in Japan about the mixed bag of results for Pacific teams at the Rugby World Cup.

Tonga's prime minister is farewelled in a massive state funeral as attention turns to what will now happen to 'Akilisi Pohiva's government; Tuvalu gets a new prime minister; Unease in Solomon Islands after the government's decision to switch allegiances from Taiwan; Fears a rare alpine plant in Samoa may have gone extinct; Pacific communities in New Zealand want more attention given to the vulnerability of atoll nations; And, divided loyalties for one family this Rugby World Cup.

Tributes have been flowing from across the Pacific after Tonga's prime minister, 'Akilisi Pohiva, died aged 78; The West Papuan independence leader Benny Wenda denies he and other activists are behind violent riots in the region; Police forces around the Pacific have been caught off guard by the growth of the methamphetamine trade in the region; Nauru's newly elected President Lionel Aingimea says no government has ever interfered with the country's courts; Papua New Guinea's government has approved a 1-billion kina or 460-million NZ dollar facility to generate economic development in Bougainville over 10 years; Over two weeks after the mysterious deaths of five family members in Fiji's Nausori Highlands the mother of the baby found alive with the dead says she is still waiting for justice, and; Former Kiwis rugby league coach Frank Endacott will take the reins of Mate Ma'a Tonga in the upcoming tests against Great Britain and Australia.