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The Bureau of Arts and Culture received 20,000 for digitization and preservation of Palau’s unique archive materials. The Bureau of Aging and Gender got $24,000 for its Applied Arts Center. And PICRC received $25,000 for the “Strengthening of Environmental Education and Awareness program to support…

Saiske, who is presently attending Taiwan University under a five-year full scholarship grant from the Taiwan government, was represented by her father, George Saiske, and aunt Dilmai T. Saiske during the presentation held at the Scholarship Board office on Tuesday. Saiske’s aunt said the check wil…

Mizora Nakamura together with her cousin Hisaye Nakamura, seven years old, went straight to the Palau National Scholarship Office with her mother from school to hand over the check to Douglas. Nakamura’s widow, Miriam Uehara Nakamura, has established the Steven Bai Nakamura Memorial Scholarship in …

The spare parts, worth over $755,000 which will go to the Palau Public Utilities Corporation are funded by Japan’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) under the Follow-Up Scheme Project called “Supply and Delivery of Spare and Replacement parts and Maintenance Assistance for Mitsubishi Diesel Gen…

This program will not only help us develop as a nation, but also to show the people and leaders of other nations that we are doing our partwith the world as a whole. 50 trees that are native to Palau have been donated by the Department of Agriculture for this Sundays tree planting at Ice Box Park w…

Twenty-two persons participated each day and were awarded certificates of attendance at the end of the program by Ms. Karla West, Program Manager for the Energy Loan Program of the bank. The training program coinsisted of 10 hours of classroom instruction and the remainder of the time (20 hours) sp…

The check was handed during Tuesday’s press conference by the Palau Public Lands Authority to the government. The land was originally bought in the amount of $540,000 in 2000 and was recently sold for $480,000 but with taxes and commission it went down to $436,364.73. The government has decided to …

Pagaragan has been coming to Palau regularly to recruit interested Palauans to join the US Marine Corps. This year, he will be on the island on November 6 to 7. “Being a marine is not easy,” Pagaragan said.“It takes hard work, dedication, motivation, physical and mental strength. But above all else…

“I resigned as a member of the Palau Red Cross Board of Directors because of my disappointments and frustrations of the chairman inability to listen to others plan, ideas and recommendations,” Rehuher said I her letter. She said that the general membership meeting was requested from its Chairman Sa…

Anastacio was the Minister of State during the fifth Palau government and former President Kuniwo Nakamura’s term. He and Taiwan’s former Foreign Minister Cheng Chien-ren signed the joint declaration to strengthen the two countries’ bilateral cooperation. “I want to congratulate Taiwan on its 99th …