Dateline Pacific morning edition for 31 January 2014

Officials are working hard to remove fishing vessel stranded on a reef in Pohnpei; PNG's rapid growth is labelled explosive; French Polynesian health authorities have been fighting two mosquito borne epidemics at once; American Samoa wants the federal government to drop the mandated wage hikes; A former Nauru government media advisor labels the country a dictatorship after his deportation; a Fiji watcher says there's a double purpose to the visit to Wellington of a top regime official.