12 Aug 2019

Dateline Pacific for 12 August 2019

From , 5:05 am on 12 August 2019

Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono visited the Marshall Islands last week, hard on the heels of visits to the region by the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; a Bougainvillean spreading awareness about the upcoming independence referendum says many people still don't understand the process; Fiji's opposition national federation party is concerned at the rising incidences of drug-related crimes and drugs found across the country; social media and the lack of radio services in some small Pacific Islands nations present challenges for local met services during extreme weather events; nearly a year on from a destructive typhoon many students in the Northern Marianas still face truncated school days or classes in tents.