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The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has announced “Operation Divine Wind” against the Japanese. Divine Wind is the formal translation of the Japanese word “kamikaze,” the name given to hundreds of World War II suicide pilots, sailors and soldiers who attacked Allied forces in the Pacific. They we…

Tataua Pefe, the secretary-general of Tuvalu’s Red Cross, said  because of the lack of rainfall, residents would likely “be finishing up their rationed water.” New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully said his country was rushing to help as best it could, sending in defense force personnel to …

The Test will be administered by the special education program in order to better identify students who may need assistance to enhance their academic performance in their education. This screening is done regularly three times per school year in all Wa’ab elementary schools. School principals of ea…

The Nitijela, the Marshallese parliament, unanimously passed legislation last week that ends commercial fishing of sharks in all 1,990,530 square kilometers (768,547 square miles) of the central Pacific country’s waters, an ocean area four times the landmass of California. “We salute the Republic o…

Deloitte’s “Independent Auditor’s Reports on Internal Control and on Compliance” for FY2 010 describes serious financial management problems in the government’s procurement system, questions spending of $2.2 million in United States grant funding, and says dozens of checks were issued by the govern…

“The Ministry of Finance has 14 (audit) findings from the previous years, and as of today only two findings have been resolved (with) unresolved questioned costs worth about $2.2 million,” said the report issued by Public Accounts Chairman Sen. Frederick Muller. The Public Accounts Committee is the…

To all Palauan youth, please come to Laly 4 early as we will have an annual PCA Youth Club election at 9 a.m. to choose new youth officers for school year 2011-2012.   Please come and let’s elect our youth officers and celebrate our annual independence day in the CNMI. The Palau Independence Day ce…

While in New York to participate at the High-level Meetings and General Debate of the 66th United Nations General Assembly, Mori administered the oath of office to the two Micronesian diplomats. The FSM Congress confirmed Lippwe and Naich’s appointments at its May session. About 20 of Lippwe and Na…

The tiny Pacific nation —  Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott’s preferred destination for asylum seekers who arrive in Australia by boat — signed the paperwork necessary to join the convention in June. After waiting 90 days for the U.N. to process the paperwork, the Nauruan government on Mond…

President Johnson Toribiong told the U.N. General Assembly that the failure of some states to acknowledge the clear-cut security implications of climate change is pathetic. Toribiong said an attempt by the Pacific Small Island Developing States earlier this year to get the U.N. to agree to proposal…