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Michigan Inc. workers exit the garment factory compound in San Antonio for their lunch break yesterday. Michigan Inc., which manufactures Gap and Banana Republic apparel, is closing on or about March 30, 2007, citing its inability to compete with the low wages of countries in Asia that can now also export their garment products to the U.S.P hoto by Haidee V. Eugenio

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Another garment factory closing on March 30
MICHIGAN Inc. will close its garment factory on or about March 30, 2007, the 13th garment factory on Saipan to shut down since the Jan. 2005 liberalization of trade rules that now allow Third... (Full Story)

Ex-youth senator sues Scholarship Board
A FORMER youth senator has sued the CNMI Scholarship Board, its members and administrators for denying her application.
Roselle Demapan Calvo, through attorney Robert T. Torres, filed a complaint for judicial review of an agency ....(Full Story)

Local wage hike bill ‘too little, too late’
MINIMUM wage earners interviewed by this reporter have mixed views about a House bill that will increase the local rate and establish a wage review committee. Some say the measure is “too little, too late,” while others believe that it’s about time the .(Full Story)

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400 telephones.Guam Memorial Hospital administrator PeterJohn Diaz Camacho, left, addresses employees of GMH and GTA while Gov. Felix P. Camacho, center, and Continental Micronesia staff vice president for sales and marketing Wally Dias listen at yesterday’s ceremony for Continental Airlines’ donation of 400 Meridian and Northern Telecom digital telephones to the government of Guam. Photo by Paul Blas

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