Dateline Pacific for Tuesday 28 January 2020

Pacific academic and former Tongan MP, Sitiveni Halapua, says ten years into the greater democracy ushered in in 2010 there is still a need to learn how to govern under it; the Asian Development Bank is investing more than US$2-billion over a five year period to help Pacific countries transition to renewable energy production and to develop sustainable transport; a master carver in Bougainville is encouraging young people to follow his steps into the traditional practice as a livelihood; a Papua New Guinea business leader wants future resource developers to help set up food production and training facilities long before they start building their plants.