Dateline Pacific evening edition for 9 August 2018

Samoa's Ministry of Health is working with the World Health Organisation to win back the public's trust after the death of two babies following vaccination; two police officers in Papua New Guinea are suspended after beating a teenager; a new funding push by the United States into the Indo-Pacific region has been labelled late to the party; the Papua New Guinea criminal justice system tries to improve the way it prosecutes family and sexual violence crimes involving children; a Cook Islands developer hopes work will be underway this year on a five star hotel on Rarotonga.