Marshall Islands News

Thanks to Bruce Best of the University of Guam's Telecommunications and Distance Education Operation, and a host of Pacific partners, the 600 residents of Likiep Atoll in the Marshall Islands now have access to e-mail, the Internet and long-distance calling.

The largest number of Marshall Islanders since 2001 left to the United States last year, bringing total out-migration to more than 16,000 since the early 1990s, according to the Marshall Islands government's planning office.

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Citizens of the Freely Associated States also endure mistreatment at the Guam international airport similar to those experienced by CNMI travelers, Gov.

Educators from all over the region came together this week for the 28th Annual Pacific Islands Bilingual Bicultural Association Conference to discuss ways to invigorate language and culture in the Marianas and the rest of Micronesia.

The FBI National Academy Associates Hawaii Chapter has selected two young men from Oahu to attend the FBI NAA Youth Leadership Program at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.

The number of Marshall Islanders with HIV increased with four new cases diagnosed during the past year, a Ministry of Heath official said Friday.

The only CT scanner in the Marshall Islands broke at the weekend, and health officials were scrambling to order replacement parts estimated to cost $55,000 by the end of this week.

Three Coast Guardsmen set sail from Hawaii on board a Navy ship yesterday to enforce federal fishing rules in waters west of the islands.

USNS Richard E. Byrd is scheduled to depart Guam tomorrow after taking on mission participants and supplies in support of Pacific Partnership 2009.

Thirteen Pacific island nations are to receive 1,000 computer laptops each in hopes of improving results in public primary schools.

Nursing leaders in the region will be gathering on Saipan to discuss pressing issues confronting their profession and to share knowledge and experiences during a five-day lecture and seminar next week.

Construction of a 2,000-mile submarine fiber optic cable expected to revolutionize communications in the north Pacific kicked off last week in the Marshall Islands capital of Majuro, reports Marianas Variety.

Five small Pacific island nations are getting $16.75 million from the European Union to install solar power equipment and improve energy efficiency.

Naval officer Charles Clock commanded the enlisted sailors on the S.S. Richard Henry Dana, pictured here in 1945 during the Liberty Ship's seventh voyage to Eniwetok, of the Pacific's Marshall Islands.

The sale of the wholesale concern Diamond Ko Ltd. to Pacific International Inc., a multi-discipline construction company based in Majuro, was completed on May 20 with the full bulk transfer of Diamond Ko's properties to PII.

A group of Pacific islands is banding together to force Asian nations to pay more for tuna caught in the region.

Raritan Valley Community College's chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society received the Hallmark Award of Distinction at the organization's International Conference, conducted from April 16-19 in Grapevine, Texas.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Pacific Islands Office, together with the governments of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa are hosting a four-day conference, June 22-25, at the Saipan World Resort in Susupe, Saipan.

A Marshall Islands consulate is scheduled to open in September in Springdale, the country's consul general told a group of about 300 Marshallese who were celebrating Constitution Day on Saturday at the Jones Center for Families.