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The crew will be in port to rest before they make preparation for the voyage back to Palau soon depending on the weather condition in the next few days. The Alingano Maisu will also make a brief stop in Ngulu before continuing on to their final destination. The voyage is part of the non-instrument …

Program participants included U.S. Ambassador Peter A. Prahar, COM-FSM acting interim President Joe Habuchmai, EAC Advisers Lore Nena and Mike Ioanis, COM-FSM faculty and staff, and U.S. college and university alumni. Nearly 200 students attended from COM-FSM, various public and private high school…

Tokelau, three New Zealand atolls north of Samoa without a capital, an airport nor a harbor, gives away its domain name .tk. Evidence shows Tokelau web addresses are dominant in internet phishing attacks. In phishing, emails arrive at random addresses asking people to provide their log-ons and pass…

EPA testing results showed that 40 percent of the more than 30 water samples taken from the city fresh water system in the capital contaminated with feces or other pollutants. “We advise that people boil water thoroughly before drinking,” said Abraham Hicking, chief of EPA’s water quality monitorin…

On Wednesday, prosecutor Jack Jorbon revised a tax-related criminal case against American attorney David Lowe, reducing the number of charges from 153 to 86, while adding a new charge that aims to prevent Lowe from practicing law in the Marshall Islands. Lowe, who is based in California, is the att…

Mired by delays, the developer has attributed it to global recession and exchange rate pressures on imports of materials. “Of course, of course,” he said confidently when asked whether the stalled project will ever be completed, saying additional funds should be cleared this week. This is the assur…

While the number of babies being born in the territory has decreased, the number of teenage pregnancies has increased. Since 2007 there has been a 50 per cent increase in the number of teenage mothers. A senior nurse practitioner for women’s health at an outlying clinic says since January she has a…

Managed by the Bureau of Information Resource Management’s Office of eDiplomacy, Virtual Student Foreign Service  partners American students with U.S. embassies and consulates abroad to conduct digital diplomacy that reflects the realities of a networked world. Sarah Blair, a first-year internation…

The four-member mission will visit Yap to discuss and study the projects for the Yap Fishing Authority. The fishing authority submitted requests to the Overseas Fishery Cooperation Foundation: the repair and restoration of the Yap Fishing Authority facilities, and advice on the management and opera…

There has been no replacement for the previous permanent secretary of Education, who retired on September 30 last year. There has been no principal at Marshall Islands High School since the previous one resigned in December. And despite available funding since October 1, 2010 new teachers needed to…