Dateline Pacific for 7 November 2019

A leading researcher says more needs to be done to eliminate preventable cancers in the Pacific, and to control others; a new Kiribati opposition party says the government is too close to China and its time is up; a milestone reconciliation between the former opponents in the Bougainville civil war in the 1990s is providing a security assurance for the upcoming independence referendum in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region; the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce is delighted at the success of a campaign to reduce gender violence; Tong Sang gets suspended jail sentence - the fourth of this decade's French Polynesian presidents to get a conviction this year.