Dateline Pacific evening edition for 15 November 2018

Counting is still underway in Fiji after voters went to the polls yesterday; A caseworker says the health of refugees on Manus Island is deterriorating; A Japanese company plans to mine unlimited sand in northern Palau; Papua New Guinea civil society groups have called on China to introduce regulation on illegal wood imports from the country; the Australian Prime Minister says a speech he gave last week opened a new chapter between Australia and the Pacific; Oxfam in Vanuatu will provide displaced Ambaeans with cash for the next three months.