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Pacific Update with Barbara Dreaver: A Tongan island captures NASA's interest, Chinese fashion label slammed for cultural appropriation

By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific Correspondent
February 8, 2019

Join 1 NEWS’ Pacific correspondent for the latest news from around the Pacific.

In this week's edition of Pacific Update, we look at the Chinese fashion house under fire for using PNG sacred rituals to market its clothes, and death of a US-based Tongan man who had returned home for his father's funeral.

Watch Barbara Dreaver's update in the video above.

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