Welcome to Pacific Update, our weekly news roundup for the region.
We’ve got a response from Hollywood star The Rock to a five-year-old Christchurch boy’s anti-violence appeal, and a traditional canoeist's big haul in Niue.
Te Mire Flower Week has gone off with a bang in the Cook Islands, despite an absence of tourists, while a South Auckland cop has stunned bargoers with his rendition of a Che Fu classic.
We’ve got the latest on the pandemic, and as ever, the best videos from social media.
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