1 Feb 2018

Dateline Pacific evening edition for 1 February 2018

From , 4:06 pm on 1 February 2018

People in Kiribati are holding out hope that more passengers lost at sea after their ferry sank a fortnight ago will be found; the FIFA World Cup Trophy is in Solomon Islands for the first time but football fans are struggling to see it as it is not allowed out of the airport terminal because of security concerns; Tonga has declared a dengue outbreak following the death of a 12-year-old New Zealand girl in the country last week; Fiji's government says recent attacks on Hindu temples in the country are designed to divide Fiji; the premier of Niue has agreed to delay the introduction of a new regime for businesses importing goods by ship; a student photographer from the Cook Islands hopes her photos of abandoned homes on the island of Mangaia will bring home the country's depopulation problem.