Dateline Pacific morning edition for 17 May 2018

France maintains boycott of UN process to decolonise Tahiti; Fiji's Mahendra Chaudhry has been chosen as the 2018 recipient of the prestigious Krishna Menon Award; Papua New Guinea police are being stretched to the limit of their resources to maintain peace in the Highlands; a Samoan poet protests after New Zealand refuses to subsidise her mother's care; Manu Samoa is set be without a number of first-choice players after World Cup qualifying games were rescheduled.