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WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Underlying U.S. consumer prices increased at their slowest pace in six months in August as used motor vehicle prices tumbled, suggesting that inflation had probably peaked, though it could remain high for a while amid persistent supply constraints. The broad slowdown in price…

(MVA) —  The Marianas is the only destination to successfully establish a travel bubble with South Korea, and South Koreans are beginning to flock to this western Pacific archipelago in what local tourism officials say is a sign of success of the government’s Tourism Resumption Investment Plan or T…

(MVA) — Familiarization or fam tours are an important and cost-effective tool used by the Marianas and other destinations to attract visitors by generating more exposure of the destination. The Marianas Visitors Authority periodically hosts fam tours for media, travel agents, airlines, and other tr…

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — Restaurants, bars, day care centers, taxi operators, retail stores, law firms, travel agencies and gyms were among more than 200 local companies that applied on the first day of a new $20 million federally funded grant program to help pandemic-hit small businesses. B…

IT&E has expressed commitment to the Hafa Adai & Tirow Pledge which embodies the preservation and integration of the indigenous Chamorro and Refaluwasch cultures into IT&E’s everyday business practice. From left, Velma Palacios, IT&E and chamber director; Shayne Villanueva, vice pre…

(Special Advertising Feature) — United Airlines has expanded its Guam- Manila service to daily from five-times weekly beginning Sept. 7, 2021. This expanded service conveniently provides customers in Guam with more options to travel to Manila and daily connections for Manila passengers connecting t…

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele stepped in on Wednesday to manage the fraught roll-out of a payments app that underpins the nation’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, and called on users to report any problems on his Twitter feed. Adopting language similar to IT …

INAS’ Kitchen is very grateful to Bank of Hawaii for the grant assistance the restaurant received from BoH’s small business development project. Inas’ Kitchen owner Rita A. Sablan Ed.D. said the $5,000 grant they received on Tuesday “will provide us an opportunity to achieve one o…

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — The Guam Visitors Bureau board on Thursday voted to approve a $1 million budget to pay for the Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, testing of thousands of eligible tourists before they return to their home country. It’s among incentives that GVB is roll…

(NMC) — Highway Express Auto Care Center is the latest company to sign on as a Northern Marianas College ProaPerks Partner, joining many other businesses and organizations. All card-carrying members of the NMC ProaPerks program can now receive a 15% discount on purchase of products and services. Pr…