Fiji's biggest drug trial set to begin following last-minute guilty pleas
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Fiji's biggest drug trial begins after four of the nine people accused of importing more than four tonnes of methamphetamine plead guilty.
Tonga debates whether the balance between tradition, faith and daily life needs to be re-weighted.
Parents and students wait to see if teachers will turn up to work in Vanuatu.
Te Pati Maori co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer discusses her suspension from parliament due to a haka protest.
An aircraft which crash landed in Papua New Guinea during World War Two and restored in Australia is returned to Port Moresby.
And 80-tonnes of World War 2 explosives are removed from the sea in Palau.
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Fiji's biggest drug trial set to begin following last-minute guilty pleas
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