Dateline Pacific evening edition for 27 May 2019

Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O'Neill has announced that he is to resign after weeks of defections from his government and hand over the position to his coalition partner and former prime minister Sir Julius Chan; research into malaria in Solomon Islands has found that there have been big reductions in the number of people becoming ill in the past 20 years; two international NGOs believe a recent Land Summit in Papua New Guinea was a dangerous attack on the country's unique customary land tenure system; the Northern Marianas government has reversed its earlier decision to withdraw from hosting the 2021 Pacific Mini Games.