Pacific Beat

Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Peter O'Neill says he wants his country to win more medals, while it's hosting the 15th Pacific Games in 2015.

Fiji and Samoa have failed to qualify for the IRB Junior World Championship semi finals in France.

Tim Gavel with an update on Rugby, Rugby League and Cricket.

A shortage of water in the Cook Island is putting a growing strain on the government's water tank subsidy scheme.

A major donor-supported effort to relieve drought in the Marshall Islands continues with teams of relief workers installing water-making units on remote outer islands.

What were once considered risks are now a reality.

Rural to urban drift has seen an increase in the number of informal settlements in a number of Pacific Island Nations.

While American Samoa is seeing more qualified teachers in their schools, statistics are showing that student performance still remains at a low level.

Students from Hawaii's Kapiolani Community College have won this year's CanSat competition.

Guam's criminal justice system is entertaining the prospect of a "two-strikes" bill for repeat offenders.

This week the Melanesian Spearhead Group will meet in New Caledonia.

The coup installed military government of Fiji has been accused of trying to intimidate Fiji Trades Union Congress general secretary Felix Anthony at an International Labour Organisation conference in Switzerland.

The ILO meeting in Geneva is going to consider what to do about the Fiji interim government's record on trade union rights.

The Northern half of the Marshall Islands remains in a state of emergency due to the severe drought.

The design of a new school that's been built in Vanuatu, has won a prestigious World Architecture Award.

Final preparations are being made for the opening of the national Yap Games tonight.

Fiji is on the agenda at a meeting of the International Labour Organisation in Geneva.

PNG's Prime Minister is planning to raise the issue of human rights in West Papua province, during an official visit to Indonesia, starting this weekend.

The falling Australian Dollar is a concern for Pacific countries whose economies are linked closely to Australia and New Zealand.