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Marshalls' Are Going Dark As Funds For Fuel Run Low
With no financial reserves and a national fuel bill skyrocketing beyond the financial ability of the country's only utility provider, the Marshall Islands is in a countdown to power rationing in its two urban ...
Golden is Prel Cnmi Teacher of the Year
Andrew Golden, a science teacher at the Saipan Southern High School has been named Teacher of the Year for the Northern Mariana Islands by the Hawaii-based Pacific Resources for Education and Learning.
WAYNESBORO - Carter Randolph Allen, 86, of Summit Square at 501 Oak Ave. died Thursday, July 10, 2008, at home.
When the Marshall Islands film 'Morning Comes So Soon' began its run at the K&K Theater in Majuro in May, the schedule called for screenings once, maybe twice a week.
Sweetener May Cut Cavities in Kids
July 9, 2008 -- Daily doses of a sweetened syrup could keep very young kids from developing cavities .
Report States Half of U.S. Coral Reefs in "Poor" or "Fair" Condition
Nearly half of U.S. coral reef ecosystems are considered to be in "poor" or "fair" condition according to a new NOAA analysis of the health of coral reefs under U.S. jurisdiction.
NOAA report: Half of U.S. coral reefs in 'poor' or 'fair' condition
Nearly half of U.S. coral reef ecosystems are considered to be in 'poor' or 'fair' condition, according to an NOAA analysis of the health of coral reefs under U.S. jurisdiction.
Topical Oral Syrup Prevents Early Childhood Caries, Study Shows
In a recent clinical trial in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, children 6 to 15 months old were given oral doses of xylitol in fruit-flavored syrup daily to determine whether the substance can prevent ...
Marshall Islands in economic emergency
The tiny western Pacific island nation of the Marshall Islands has declared a state of economic emergency as soaring fuel prices threaten to shut down electricity supplies.
The Pacific Association for Radiation Survivors, or PARS, will hold its general membership meeting at 7 p.m. July 10 at the Dededo senior center.
-- Radiation survivors to hold meeting regarding compensation
To be discussed will be rights to be fairly compensated for health and welfare due to the unwarranted fallout of radiation exposure during the testing of bombs in Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, according to ...
Media tycoon's vessel saves family on stricken yacht
' The crew of the yacht "Blue Star," owned by Russian-Israeli media tycoon Vladimir Gusinksy, rescued an American family from a stricken yacht on Saturday morning in the Marshall Islands, just hours after it ...
Digicel makes first North Pacific move
' The rapidly expanding regional mobile phone network Digicel Pacific has filed an application to bring competition to the Marshall Islands telecommunications sector for the first time.
Visiting rabbi seeks out world's far corners
COURTESY PHOTO Rabbi Shmulik Schneerson , a visiting emissary for the Chabad Lubavitch in New York, has just wrapped a black leather strap called the "tefillin" around the arm of a man at the recent Israeli Day ...
Hawai'i legislator is new APIL president
HAWAI'I Sen. J. Kalani English is the new president of the Association of Pacific Island Legislatures and will officially assume the post on Oct.
Weeksville twins weather transition to Pacific island
Halfway across the world, Brandon and Landon Aydlett are watching the weather. The 26-year-old twin brothers from Weeksville are both working as meteorologists at Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test ...
Marshalls ambassador appointment hits hurdle
' The appointment of Benjamin Graham as the Marshall Islands ambassador to the United States is facing a hurdle that has stalled Graham taking up his new post in Washington.
Pacific Islands hit by high world food prices
While leaders from around the world argued about how to blunt the impact of soaring food prices in Rome earlier this month, Pacific Islanders were wondering how they would feed their families.
ALTHOUGH he would not classify the increase of syphilis in Guam as an outbreak, Dr.
TWO top officials of the Secretariat of the Pacific islands Applied Geoscience Commission in Suva are attending a workshop in the Marshall Islands on marine aggregates in Majuro Lagoon.