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Taiwan’s participation in the ‘Global Mutirão’ on climate transition

October 30, 2025

CLIMATE change is rapidly reshaping the global economic structure and risk landscape. Taiwan is not immune to this growing challenge. In the summer of 2025, southern and eastern Taiwan were struck by successive typhoons and torrential rainfall, causing severe flooding in many locations and undersco…

BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ Operation Pacific Viper

October 26, 2025

WHILE the American government has been shut down and we hold our breath to see if the cease-fire holds in the Middle East, the Coast Guard has been quietly going about its business of destroying the international drug trade.

When the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train

October 23, 2025

IN its third year in office, the administration has released a single audit report on the federal funds spent by the CNMI government from FYs 2020 to 2022. Considering that some of the previous administration’s key finance and budget officials are still in charge of finance and budget matters, we s…

The good life

October 23, 2025

THE late great Hans Rosling, in his important 2018 book “Factfulness,” said we should teach our children “what life was really like in the past so that they do not mistakenly think that no progress has been made.”

Blueprint or breakdown: The hospital test for Guam’s next leader

October 23, 2025

WHEN Guamanians cast their votes in 2026, they won’t just be electing a new governor. They’ll be deciding whether Guam can finally deliver a safe, modern and resilient public hospital — or remain stuck in decades of patchwork fixes and political gridlock.

Bon voyage!

October 22, 2025

ON the night of Oct. 18, 2025, in one of the pavilions at Kilili Beach, we gathered to celebrate a “Potluck Birthday Party” for a fellow overseas Filipino worker. We also extended our farewell messages to one of our fellow OFWs who is scheduled to return to the Philippines for good after 36 long ye…

Language as the heart of cultural identity in a multicultural society

October 21, 2025

I GREW up in Sorsogon, a province in the Bicol Region of the Philippines, where every town seems to have its own language. Although we are all Bicolanos, the words we use and the way we speak can sound completely different from one place to another. Even small changes in pronunciation can mean some…

Truth 148: Common Sense & the UGLY!

October 20, 2025

THE Truth is “most people DO have common sense” like the editor quoted in his Editorial but it seems only the Common Bigots are willing to speak out. I write Op eds FOR the People in hopes of helping the thousands of People who are adversely affected by “what our leaders DO and what they FAIL-to-Do…

BC’s Tales of the Pacific ǀ When Rabaul erupted

October 19, 2025

WHEN a natural disaster occurs in the islands: tsunami, earthquake, volcano, or typhoon, there is a similar pattern of events. Usually there is little warning of the danger. Even if there was, it would not make much difference because living on an island severely limits a person’s choices about how…

Realistically speaking

October 16, 2025

IT is good news that taxes collected from the construction industry will provide additional revenue to the CNMI government — an “early Christmas,” indeed, to paraphrase the governor. But this welcome increase in tax collections is not enough, and construction activity cannot go on forever.

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Taiwan’s participation in the ‘Global Mutirão’ on climate transition

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