Regional

Pacific Partnership is an annual humanitarian assistance initiative sponsored by the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet. Now in its sixth year, the mission aims to strengthen regional relationships with Southeast Asian and Oceania nations that might be called upon to respond to natural or humanitarian disaste…

President Johnson Toribiong of Palau, President Manny Mori of the Federated States of Micronesia and President Jurelang Zedkaia of the Marshall Islands are holding high level talks, with the Pohnpei meeting focused largely on addressing the recent push by the U.S. Congress and Obama administration …

Transfer and new students are to make sure that they bring the following documents with them when they come in for registration: • Official school transcript; • Birth certificate; and • Health record known as yellow card The school faculty and staff are more than willing to answer your questions if…

Deputy chief of mission Bryan Hunt said the regional office will officially open by early October. Hunt, who has been in the country for almost three weeks, said the office is an initiative of President Obama to increase aid assistance to Pacific nations. The new office will look closely into mothe…

Made possible in Kosrae by a $400,000 Compact Supplemental Education Grant, the first set included 810 laptops to be utilized for students grade 5-8; the second set of 720 laptops will incorporate grades 1-4. OLPC is a U.S.-based non-government organization established to provide affordable educati…

The sudden and unexplained deaths of nearly 100 chickens on Enibooj Island — which has a population of under 200 people living a largely subsistence lifestyle — sparked an investigation earlier this week by Ministry of Health and Marshall Islands Environmental Protection Authority officials. “More …

The introduction of a cellphone service coincides with a push to lift the number of visitors to the island from 6000 to 20,000 over the next five years. New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully was the service’s first user, making a call to Niue’s Premier Toke Talagi during last week’s…

The visitors were part of a Friendship delegation and art troupe from Guangdong undertaking a seven-country tour. The FSM is the first among these seven countries to host the visiting exotic arts performers. In welcoming the visitors to his office,  Mori expressed his appreciation to the delegation…

The court in Paris upheld a complaint by the Caledonia Together Party leader Philippe Gomes, who claimed that the process of choosing Wamytan was in breach of the rules. In a sitting which two parties boycotted after deeming it to be illegal, Wamytan was chosen by 32 of the 35 members present. A ma…

Two resolutions were placed on the agenda: • Resolution 8-32: Requesting the governor to require cancer and non-communicable diseases awareness posters to be displayed in all government buildings. This resolution was introduced by Sen. Jesse Raglmar-Subolmar and assigned to the Government, Health a…