Dateline Pacific evening edition for 13 February 2018

Islands in Fiji's Southern Lau Group face direct hit from Gita; Post-cyclone water, shelter and food main needs in Tonga; in 1968 twelve Pacific countries founded the University of the South Pacific which has grown to become the premier provider of tertiary education in Oceania; Two students from Tuvalu have won scholarships from the Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project focused on building coastal resilience in three of Tuvalu's nine inhabited islands; Tonga's Pita Taufatofua says he has nothing to prove at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.