Dateline Pacific for 28 November 2019

Papua New Guinea police confirm they are now investigating the hi-jacking of a plane on New Britain on Tuesday; the World Health Organisation says a shortage of the measles vaccine in Fiji is due to an increase in demand from the public - most of whom it says are already fully vaccinated; France again faces huge compensation demand for health costs caused by nuclear weapons tests; New Zealand's Minister for Pacific Peoples hopes a new language innovation fund will encourage people to become multi-lingual as well as protect heritage languages of the Pacific; a Tongan university that recently won a court battle against moves to ban its recruitment of students wants the government to help with its assessment issues.