Papua New Guinea authorities consider money demands from Rabaul landowners in the face of threats to shut down the town; businesses in the Northern Marianas are losing tens of thousands of dollars a day; local friendliness appears to be the key to the high number of tourists visiting Fiji; the Bank South Pacific says it is still keen on expanding in Solomon Islands and Vanuatu; a helicopter races to the rescue of a mother and her triplets in remote Papua New Guinea; a trailblazing Pacific women's leader is farewelled in Auckland
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