17 Jul 2015

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 17 July 2015

From , 5:05 am on 17 July 2015

A state of emergency is declared in the Northern Marianas as it reels from its severed phone line; The Secretariat of the Pacific Community says taxing junk food needs to be considered to stop obesity; Calls for more to be done to tackle diabetes in Fiji; Refugees on Papua New Guinea's Manus Islands remain in limbo; And, We speak to the new artist-in-residence at Samoa's National University.