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HAGÅTÑA  — The Office of the Guam Governor on Friday evening issued the following statement on the unanimous passage of Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero’s special-session bill ensuring that food assistance under both the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Women, Infants, and Children Prog…

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — The government of Guam closed out fiscal year 2025 with a $90.2 million surplus, according to the monthly Consolidated Revenue and Expenditure Report, or CRER, released Monday by the Bureau of Budget and Management Research.

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — One of the key presentations at Tuesday’s meeting in Yap of the Pacific Asia Travel Association, or PATA, Micronesia Chapter was by Anthony Falvo, United Airlines senior manager for global network planning and alliances, Pacific route planning.

(Reuters) — Marian Duhapa kisses her quietly sleeping one-year-old daughter Quinn goodbye as she prepares for the 16-hour bus trip from her remote village in the Philippines to Manila airport before flying back to Taiwan and work.

HAGÅTÑA (The Guam Daily Post) — A Guam-based cultural performing arts group and a Northern Mariana Islands practitioner traveled to Berlin in August to view ancestral artifacts and remains held in German museums, marking what organizers describe as an important step in addressing colonial legacies.

TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan’s main opposition party, the Kuomintang, elected a firebrand new leader on Saturday who opposes increased defense spending but pledged to ensure peace with giant neighbor China.

YAREN (Pacific Media Network/Pacnews) — Just a few months after explaining his government’s decision to rekindle diplomatic ties with China, Nauru President David Adeang has been re-elected unopposed in the country’s recent election. Nauru’s parliament met on Tuesday to discuss th…

DHAKA (Reuters) — A fire on Tuesday at a garment factory in Bangladesh and an adjacent chemical warehouse killed at least 16 people and injured others, and the death toll could rise, an official said.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) — The United States said on Monday it stood by its Philippine ally and emphasized their mutual defense treaty after vessels from China and the Philippines clashed amid heightened tensions in the disputed South China Sea.

MANILA/BEIJING (Reuters) — The Philippines and China accused each other on Sunday of responsibility for a maritime confrontation near disputed islands in the South China Sea, further escalating tensions in the resource-rich waterway.