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This is part of a Japan-funded, Pacific-wide waste improvement program. Palau is among the 14 countries and territories that have adopted the Regional Cooperative Framework on solid waste management. Under the program, Pacific island countries and territories, with the help of Japan, will adopt cos…

These are former Vice President Camsek Elias Chin, Foreign Investment Board Chairman John Skebong, former Sen. Caleb Otto, businessman Phillip Reklai and Compact Review chief Joshua Koshiba,  a former senator. Chin served as vice president of Palau from 2004 to 2008. He ran for president in 2008 bu…

The first lecture was scheduled for yesterday in the PCC Assembly Hall starting  at 6:30 p.m. Before being elected president in 2008, Toribiong was a successful private lawyer, and has  served in various capacities throughout his more than four decades of professional life in  Palau and Micronesia.…

This annual program brings students from the four states of FSM to the capital to experience firsthand a unique “close up” observation on how elected leaders perform within the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government and their decision-making process on critical issues affecting…

Wilson is the commodore of Pacific Partnership 2011, whose flagship, the USS Cleveland, will visit five island nations this summer: Tonga, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, and the Federated States of Micronesia. On Friday, Wilson and U.S. Ambassador to the FSM Peter A. Prahar traveled to Pal…

The first departure was on July 31, 2008, when Harvey retired from the college at age 81. It was during that time when he received his honorary emeritus status. This title is conferred on a retiring faculty of the college who has been employed as a faculty member for at least 20 years; hold the ran…

Claude Phillip, Tony Otto and Dohsis Halbert. Mori outlined a number of items that were pending and which he hoped would be resolved this week by Congress: an agreement on the government’s final total budget projection for 2011, the finalization of the government’s 2010 supplementary budget request…

Palau President Johnson Toribiong told George Kebekol, who is also a businessman, that he was “granted…this pardon because I believe you have shown remorse for your actions and because you have demonstrated as proved over the years to be a respectable, productive and law-abiding citizen.” Aside fro…

Gov. Sebastian Anefal and Lt. Gov. Tony Tareg have been re-elected while all the state senators have retained their seats except for Raymond Igechep who lost by a few votes to Jerry Fagolimul during the state general elections on Nov. 2, 2010. Igechep and Fagolimul who are both from Ifalik competed…

Japan Ambassador to Palau Yoshiyuki Sadaoka and Sween Yamada, administrator of facilities and equipment of BNH, signed the grant agreement  on Wednesday at the Japan Embassy here. The grant will cover the cost of the purchase and shipment of hematology equipment Pentra XL80 and chemistry equipment …