17 Jul 2015

Dateline Pacific evening edition for 17 July 2015

From , 3:06 pm on 17 July 2015

Police in Papua New Guinea's Western Highlands province say they are powerless to stop a tribal war; more revelations of sexual abuse in the asylum seeker camp on Nauru; the dengue fever outbreak in American Samoa is reaching the level of an epidemic; a State of emergency is declared in the CNMI over a communications black out; a regional leader calls for a junk food tax to combat obesity; and we speak to the new artist-in-residence at Samoa's National University.