Vice President and Minister of Justice J. Uduch Sengebau Senior and staff from the Ministry of Justice and the Palau International Reef Center (PICRC) visited Peleliu earlier this month in partnership for a community meeting on a number of matters impacting the state. These matters included the GEF7, maritime surveillance, anti-human trafficking, and the Palau […]
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Posted inBillboard
15 Palauan College Students and Recent Graduates Complete Summer Internship Program with 3 Joining the Workforce
It was a productive and insightful summer for the latest recipients of the PNSB Palau Fellowship Award, who were able to return home and undergo 8-weeks of internship experience with various national and local agencies in Palau. One of the recipients had remained in Taiwan, where he attends college, and completed his internship with the […]
Posted inWomen's Corner
PAY ATTENTION
Your Worth, your value in God’s eyes,.has nothing to do with what you do. Carl Jung said, “Until we are able to make unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you call it fate.” That’s the value of self awareness. The more we are aware of our own flaws, struggles, and shortcomings the better […]
Posted inOpinion
How the U.S and its Pacific Allies are approaching Taiwan
By Rena Sasaki WASHINGTON DC (INTERNATIONAL POLICY DIGEST) — On 5 August, Australia, Japan, and the United States held the Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) for the first time in three years. They issued an unprecedented joint statement in response to China’s large-scale military exercises triggered by U.S House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan on […]
Posted inPacific News
Timor-Leste warns it will work with China if Australia insists on pumping Timor Sea gas to Darwin
DILI (THE GUARDIAN) — Timor-Leste’s president, José Ramos-Horta, has warned his nation will seek Chinese support if Australia and Woodside Energy fail to back a gas pipeline between the resource-rich Timor Sea and his country’s southern shore, rather than Darwin. Ramos-Horta has warned Timor-Leste – Australia’s neighbour and ally – would “absolutely” look to Chinese […]
Posted inPacific News
Study of Kiribati economy finds it is over-reliant on tuna fishery
TARAWA (SEAFOOSOURCE) — Kiribati is over-reliant on income from access payments by distant water fishing fleets, according to a newly published study. An examination of climate change vulnerability of the island found that the country has become over-reliant on revenue from offshore foreign-flagged purse seine tuna fishing vessels. The country earns around 80 percent of […]