21 Dec 2018

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 21 December 2018

From , 5:06 am on 21 December 2018

Villages in Samoa are fighting abuse on Facebook with hefty fines for people posting it; the reputation of Papua New Guinea's Manus Island has been smeared and its people need to be compensated, a church leader says; a trial using a drone to release mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria is expected to protect communities from dengue, zika and chikungunya; disaster authorities in Vanuatu say people from Ambrym could be evacuated to Malekula if volcanic eruptions and earthquakes worsen; 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; scientists are cautiously optimistic about signs of resilience in some coral.