The Pacific media risks being regulated if they do not strive for professionalism. Obviously the PINA leadership has opted to walk the path of self-regulation, but how can self-regulation be monitored and even be enforced, asks Kalafi Moala.

Corruption in its many forms undermines national development progress. In the Pacific, corruption generally pays with few consequences to the people involved—but the consequences to the country are many and serious, writes Giff Johnson.

The tuna industry in the Pacific is under serious threat by both legal and illegal overfishing, and is undermined by over licensing of foreign fishing vessels at the expense of locally owned and operated fishing enterprises, writes Kalafi Moala.

If you can convince the poor and needy they are helpless, they will act helpless. And they will see that the only way out of their helplessness is for them to do nothing, and for others (usually from outside and from afar) to come to their aid, writes Kalafi Moala.

Risk factors in the Pacific are feeding a pipeline of potentially expensive-to-treat NCDs, but governments are already fiscally constrained in how much more they can offer. Counteracting the diabetes crisis requires innovative partnerships and new thinking, writes Giff Johnson.