7 Mar 2019

Dateline Pacific morning edition for 7 March 2019

From , 5:06 am on 7 March 2019

Vanuatu's president appears to be relenting to pressure and looks set to pardon 14 former MPs who were convicted and jailed for corruption in 2016; Kiribati's first digital television station is now beaming local content into hundreds of South Tarawa houses but it faces environmental and cultural challenges to continue its efforts; Boycotting UPNG lecturers don't know the full story, the interim chancellor says; There have been threats of violence in Tonga if parliament is dissolved according to the wishes of thousands of petitioners; Crocodile attacks on the rise in Solomon Islands, and; The Cook Islands are on dengue alert.