17 Aug 2016

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 17 August 2016

From , 5:06 am on 17 August 2016

Fiji tourism revels in the country's Sevens gold medal in Rio; renewed calls to close the illegal Manus Island detention centre in PNG; Cook Islands campaigns for a seat on UNESCO; Vanuatu's prime minister looks up British colonial records on his country at the Auckland university library; a Spanish tourist shares his experiences after being arrested in West Papua.