President Tommy Remengesau, Jr. issued a presidential proclamation on November 18, 2019 to honor the late Senator and former Angaur Governor Abel K. Suzuky who passed away at the age of 78 at the Belau National Hospital on November 2, 2019. Presidential Proclamation No. 19-275 ordered that all flags regularly flown within Palau and in […]
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World Diabetes day
It was a wonderful productive day of awareness for World Diabetes day. Celebrating today at Ernguul Park, booths where set up there to provide screening, health tips, nutrition and dietary foods for better self-care along with vegetables plants you can take home to plant and grow. Some people from the Belau National Hospital came to […]
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Worker forced to leave despite amnesty
A 24-year old woman is said to have been forced to leave the country on November 8 by her employer despite the fact that she was married to a 33 year old Palauan man and that an amnesty program was in effect. The woman who worked as a waitress at Business Class bar in Malakal […]
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Japanese students from Takatsuki High School are taken on a tour around Palau
Students from Takatsuki High School were taken on a tour around Palau on Thursday with the purpose of learning about Palau’s history, landmarks, and cultural practices. The all day trip started off with a bus ride going through the different states in Babeldaob. Along the way, Bernie Ngiralmau, who was the tour guide of the […]
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Another house destroyed by fire within a month
A report of a burning house in Ikoranges, Airai next to Camp Katuu was made on the morning Tuesday, November 12. The house is said to belong to Mr. Riumd Stephanus Gabriel who was at Ngiwal at the time of the fire. No one else was reported to be at the house. The house was […]
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Police officer draws flak for posting racial slurs against Bangladeshi workers
A police officer was called a ‘racist’ and had been criticized by netizens for throwing racial slurs against Bangladeshi workers in a social media platform. A screenshot of the post in question was previously shared in a Facebook Forum, Voices from Palau, which was later taken down, but had already garnered several reactions from netizens […]