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Digicel makes first North Pacific move
' The rapidly expanding regional mobile phone network Digicel Pacific has filed an application to bring competition to the Marshall Islands telecommunications sector for the first time.
Visiting rabbi seeks out world's far corners
COURTESY PHOTO Rabbi Shmulik Schneerson , a visiting emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch in New York, has just wrapped a black leather strap called the "tefillin" around the arm of a man at the recent Israeli Day ...
Hawai'i legislator is new APIL president
HAWAI'I Sen. J. Kalani English is the new president of the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures and will officially assume the post on Oct.
Weeksville twins weather transition to Pacific island
Halfway across the world, Brandon and Landon Aydlett are watching the weather. The 26-year-old twin brothers from Weeksville are both working as meteorologists at Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test ...
Marshalls ambassador appointment hits hurdle
' The appointment of Benjamin Graham as the Marshall Islands ambassador to the United States is facing a hurdle that has stalled Graham taking up his new post in Washington.
Pacific Islands hit by high world food prices
While leaders from around the world argued about how to blunt the impact of soaring food prices in Rome earlier this month, Pacific Islanders were wondering how they would feed their families.
ALTHOUGH he would not classify the increase of syphilis in Guam as an outbreak, Dr.
TWO top officials of the Secretariat of the Pacific islands Applied Geoscience Commission in Suva are attending a workshop in the Marshall Islands on marine aggregates in Majuro Lagoon.
Sharon and Nathan's Excellent Nuclear Vacation
Categories: Blog Bidness , DR Book Club , Nukes While the rest of us were sightseeing or lounging at the beach, Sharon Weinberger and her defense reporter husband, Nathan Hodge, spent their last two years' ...
Marshalls movie on racism to make film history
' A new film about Marshallese-Chinese racism as told through the eyes of teenagers will make history when it debuts at the first Pacific Islands Film Festival in Hawaii in July.
' The Department of Public Safety's traffic section will be conducting DUI checkpoints on the following days: - June 6 - ' The first setup will be on Chalan Pale Arnold Road in Garapan by Saipan Museum., from ...
Hey, Hill Folks, On Your Lunch Break ...
If you're wandering through the Russell Senate Office Building Rotunda this week, stop to take a look at the featured photography exhibit: "Home? Teen Refugees & Immigrants Explore Their Tucson." The project ...
PICRC and PCC host Coral Taxonomy Workshop for instructors
The Palau International Coral Reef Center , in collaboration with Palau Community College will host a Coral Taxonomy Workshop for college instructors of the region.
A Nuclear Family Vacation examines nuclear politics
A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry By Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger Bloomsbury USA, 240 pp.
Day 30: Eco-boat repairs engines, on way to Palau
Thursday, 29 May 2008, 11:20 am Press Release: Earthrace PRESS RELEASE Day 30: Earthrace eco-boat repairs engines and thunders towards Palau London/Marshall Islands, 28 May 2008 – Earthrace underwent a ...
SPRINGDALE : Islands seeking consul in area
The Marshall Islands is looking to create a consulate to link the homeland with its growing community in Northwest Arkansas and neighboring states.
Pacific students lagging in computer age: researcher
MAJURO: Pacific island students are falling behind in the computer age due to a lack of facilities and access to the few resources available, an advisor to the Pacific Forum said.
Trouble strikes Earthrace as fuel line bursts
Earthrace skipper Pete Bethune of Auckland has scrambled his support crew to get a high pressure fuel injection line to the Marshall Islands by Monday.
More than 90 percent of Marshalls stores illegally sell tobacco to teens
Marshall Islands officials attempting to reduce illegal sales of cigarettes and chewing tobacco to minors expected a survey of local stores to reveal a serious problem.
John Jack Norman, 87, of Pennsylvania, and whose daughter lives in Red Bank
JOHN JACK NORMAN, 87, of Pennsylvania, and whose daughter lives in RED BANK, died Sunday in Kinzers, Pa.