30 Aug 2018

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 30 August 2018

From , 5:05 am on 30 August 2018

Tahiti awaits sign-off for South Pacific's biggest tourism project; The vice-president of the Asia Development Bank says it's not overly concerned about the effects of an unstable global order, an array of new donors, and sky-high debts in some Pacific countries; The mayor of Penryhn in the northern Cook Islands is pushing for more water to be sent to the island as a water shortage reaches critical level on the island; PNG's Lands Minister says properly registered Incorporated Land Groups or ILGs are the answer to the country's problem around land leases, and; Thirty centuries of Samoan tattooing have been chronicled in a new book 'Tatau' released earlier this month.