Dateline Pacific evening edition for 20 Decmber 2018

Disaster authorities in Vanuatu say Malekula Island would be the first option for an evacuation of people from Ambrym if volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, which have been rocking that island this week, get worse; people in Papua New Guinea's drought-stricken South Fly district need to be vigilant to get through the next couple of months with little water, the local MP says; coral scientists are cautiously optimistic about signs of resilience emerging in some corals to the adverse conditions in an increasingly warmer ocean; the International Finance Corporation, or IFC, wants to know about the economic impact of the cruise tourism industry in Fiji; New Zealand's Wellington City has become the first municipal body in the country to adopt a formal Pasifika policy analysis tool.