Dateline Pacific for 12 February 2020

Vote buying marred a mostly peaceful general election in Solomon Islands last year, a report says; the Indonesian government should have celebrated the work of an environmental journalist rather than detaining him, his editor says; The World Bank grants Tuvalu $US6.2 million to help it recover from Cyclone Tino just two weeks after the January storm; the Pacific Community is helping regional met services to forecast coastal inundation.