Dateline Pacific evening edition for 22 November 2016

Girls on the Vanuatu island of Tanna are missing up to a week of school a month because of the difficulty in dealing with menstruation; The Papua New Guinea government is planning to get its Pacific Marine Industrial Zone project up and running in Madang Province in the first quarter of 2017; UN Women Markets for Change Forum in Nadi aims at improving lives and livelihoods of the predominantly female market vendors in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu; Fiji's NFP says onerous public meeting rules scare off members; The SPC says Fiji's leadership on climate change is good for Pacific; American Samoa hopes for a change of heart from the US Department of Defence.