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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…

(Office of the Governor) — Two small business owners from the CNMI were recently selected by the CNMI Department of Commerce to attend the Affordable Shopping Destination or ASD Market Week gift show from Aug. 22 to 25, 2021 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Marianas Trench Sea Salt and the Hybri…

(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…

TAMUNING, Guam (GEDA) — The Guam Economic Development Authority is hosting a free, virtual export conference, “Taking the Leap Beyond Guam: Exporting for Businesses”, on Friday, September 10, 2021, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The one-day virtual export conference is the culmination of GEDA’s Guam Stat…

BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s exports unexpectedly grew at a faster pace in August thanks to solid global demand, helping take some of the pressure off the world’s second-biggest economy as it navigates its way through headwinds from several fronts. The Asian giant staged an impressive re…

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) — El Salvador on Tuesday became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, a real-world experiment proponents say will lower commission costs for billions of dollars sent home from abroad but which critics warned may fuel money laundering. The plan spear…