Dateline Pacific for 14 November 2019

Tongan health authorities have discovered the possibility that a generation of measles vaccinations are not effective; the Cook Islands Democratic Party says the teaching of te reo could be the way to re-populate the outer islands; next Monday's election in the Marshall Islands is shaping up to be one of the most significant since independence; renewed large-scale phosphate mining poised to restart on French Polynesia's Makatea atoll