Micronesia News

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U.S. Coast Guard crews help locate 24 aboard three canoes near Chuuk; search continues for one canoe with six aboard, Nov.

Matson announced a rate increase for its Hawaii service and for its Guam and Micronesia services.

SHIPPING : Matson raises container rates for Guam, Micronesia services Pacific Daily News * news@guampdn.com * November 25, 2009 11:55 p.m. Nov.

Seven people who were reported missing in a skiff near Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia were found safe today, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

PELELIU, Micronesia--Cal, a U.S. Marines veteran from Minnesota, stands on the white sand of Orange Beach.

Friends and Faculty are mourning the loss of a Southern Adventist University student killed halfway across the world.

School officials from a Tennessee University said a 20-year-old student doing missionary work in Micronesia was killed.

A Seventh-day Adventist student missionary from Southern Adventist University in Collegedale was found murdered on Wednesday on the Pacific island of Yap, the Adventist News Network said.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: It is not very often in a reporter's career that he or she gets the opportunity to trace the steps of Indiana Jones.

Businesses and other entities that want to avail of contracting and business opportunities with the military are encouraged to attend Wednesday's symposium sponsored by the Office of U.S. Defense Representative for the CNMI, Guam, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia.

The Department of the Interiors' Insular Assistant Secretary, Tony Babauta, made available $1 million to support the Prior Service Trust Fund Administration.

For the first time I finally had the opportunity to experience the annual Guam Micronesian Island Fair.

The U.S. Small Business Administration's Guam office is accepting nominations for several SBA award categories including the 2010 Small Business of the Year Award.

The Pacific Judicial Council composed of the judiciaries of the CNMI, Guam, the Republic of Palau, American Samoa, and the Federated States of Micronesia conducted their 2009 PJC Biennial Conference at the Fiesta Resort and Spa Saipan on Oct.

More than 75 students from the College of Micronesia, Yap State Campus, and Yap High School attended an educational seminar at the college on Oct.

The latest in a series of Australian-sponsored Pacific Patrol Boat refits has been completed and the refurbished vessel handed-back to the Federated States of Micronesia at a ceremony at the Rosshaven Marine Shipyard in Townsville QLD today.

The regional headquarters of FFA, Honiara, Solomon Islands, hosted the Special Pacific Islands Parties Internal Meeting on 28 October and the 1st Renegotiation Session of the Multilateral Treaty on Fisheries Between Certain Governments of the Pacific FFA participated in a number of key meetings this month, outcomes from which are detailed below.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it has corrected a processing glitch that linked U.S. Social Security numbers to those issued in three foreign countries.

It can't be denied -- here on Guam, the term "Micronesian" has developed into a negative one that specifically references individuals from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Belau, the Marshall Islands, etc.