Dateline Pacific evening edition for 19 January 2016

Fiji's opposition National Federation Party weighs quitting parliament; The Solomon Islands government defends its payment to ex-Malaita militants; A French Polynesia pro-independence campaigner plans to run for the French presidency; Papua New Guinea's police commissioner promises to stamp out ill discipline and brutality this year; Urgent action needed to stop what appears to be a strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Papua New Guinea; And, Oceania Tennis is to get a say on the global game.