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The Le Soléal sits dockside at the Port Authority of Guam on March 31, 2025. PITI, Guam (PAG) — The Port Authority of Guam welcomed the arrival of its third cruise ship of the year Monday morning as the Le Soléal docked at the Port at 7:39 a.m. Operated by luxury French cruise line Ponant, the Le S…

Surangel Whipps Jr. KOROR (Island Times/Pacnews) — After failing to secure Senate confirmation, former Finance Minister Kaleb Udui. Jr. and former Education Minister Dr. Dale Jenkins have been appointed by President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. as special assistants to the president. Though lacking offic…

Rescue personnel work at the site of a building that collapsed, following a strong earthquake, in Mandalay, Myanmar, March 29, 2025. REUTERS BANGKOK (Reuters) — Foreign rescue teams and supplies arrived in Myanmar on Sunday to help the impoverished country cope with an earthquake that killed over 1…

CHUUK (Pacific Island Times/Pacnews) — It has been more than three weeks and Chuuk has yet to finalize the official results of the recent election, which was riddled with voter fraud that required court intervention. While the election results are still locked in litigation, vote results — misrepre…

Surangel Whipps Jr. KOROR (Island Times/Pacnews) — Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr has criticized the Senate for rejecting his nominee for Minister of Education, Dr. Dale Jenkins, and for failing to act on the appointment of Kaleb Udui Jr as Minister of Finance. “Enough is enough! We need to wor…

Cary Yan and Gina Zhou in this 2018 file photo taken at the Marshall Islands Resort in Majuro. Photo by Hilary Hosia/Marshall Islands Journal MAJURO (Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project/Pacnews) — A pair of China-born scammers convicted of bribing officials via a fake United Nations ag…

MANGILAO (UOG) — A group of agriculture and business students and faculty from the University of Guam got to immerse themselves in Taiwan’s bustling agritourism industry during a study-abroad trip in January. The trip marks the university’s third study-abroad experience to Taiwan since 2022, with t…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul pose for the cameras during the 11th Trilateral Foreign Ministers Meeting in Tokyo on March 22, 2025. REUTERS TOKYO (Reuters) — The top diplomats from Japan, China and South Korea…

Dale Jenkins KOROR (Island Times/Pacnews) — The Palau Senate on Thursday last week voted to reject the reappointment of Dr. Dale Jenkins as minister of education.  Seven senators opposed the nomination, while six voted in favor during the second day of the Senate’s first special session. A minimum …

Aumua Amata PAGO PAGO (Mongabay/Pacnews) — U.S Congresswoman Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of an enormous marine protected area in the Central Pacific Ocean to industrial fishing while also recommending the reopening …