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It is the first significant set-back to prosecution that since last November has charged 12 people with stealing more than $500,000 in U.S. federal funding from the Ministry of Health. Lin, who owns Home Special Supply and Special Supply, two Majuro retail operations, is the first of 12 people char…

The “Fly Away” team will be in Yap from July 11 to 12, 2 working alongside with the doctors and nurses at the state hospital to learn what types of medical equipment the hospital would need to improve the service. Chief Petty Officer Aaron McLeod paid a courtesy call on Anefal at the governor’s off…

Head of pure and applied sciences Dr. Anjeela Jokhan said with mobile phones being the most common medium of communication, students will soon be able to enroll through mobile web or access grade books. “Each project may take up to $5000 to have the functionality trialed, tested and added to the ga…

The task force will kill every single one of the rodents on British-controlled Henderson Island, part of the Pitcairn Islands, to save an endangered seabird from extinction. The rats are eating most of the rare petrel chicks and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds operation will drop pois…

The annual consultations are a requirement under the Amended Compact and a critical step in the timeline of activities that lead up to the annual Joint Economic Management Committee meeting and ultimately the finalized Compact-funded budgets for the next fiscal year. During the course of the consul…

Nauru began to default on its membership contributions in 2001 because of the severe economic crisis that had hit the island. The present government says the budget has more than doubled over the last three years, enabling it to start addressing the debt burden. Nauru’s Foreign Affairs and Finance …

One of those measures was requesting for matching funds for the YWA building project while the other  requested a supplemental budget for utility of the Department of Youth & Civic Affairs, the Division of Media in particular. Bill 8-32 appropriates $50,000 from the general fund of the state of…

The world’s northern oceans used to have permanent ice cover, but that ice has thinned and melted to such as extent that the region can now be navigated. Not just by boats, but also sea creatures from giant whales to single-cell plankton. Plankton consists of microscopic plants called phytoplankton…

Craig Santos Perez is attending this week’s Reading and Writing in the Pacific conference at Wellington’s Victoria University. Like many Pacific poets, he says his role is to speak out against colonization. Perez said the militarization of Guam by the United States initially repressed awareness of …

China provided more than $60 million three years ago to help pay for the rebuild of the capital, Nuku’alofa, which was destroyed by riots in 2006. Lawmakers are now trying to trim the budget as Tonga confronts a multi-million dollar deficit while also contemplating how to meet annual repayments of …