TONTO BASIN, Ariz. (AP) — Nine members of an Arizona family, together for the Thanksgiving holiday, were in an oversized military-style truck when they got stuck in a raging creek swollen by intense runoff from a powerful storm. Four children and two adults got out and were rescued by helicopter, but three children stayed in […]
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Chinese gifts for Pacific ‘friends’
Chinese gifts for Pacific ‘friends’ BEIJING, 17 OCTOBWER 2019 (THE AUSTRALIAN) — China will roll out fresh offers of cash and red-carpet trips when Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua meets Pacific leaders in Samoa next week to spruik Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative. Mr Hu, a senior Chinese Communist Party Politburo member, will […]
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PICRC awarded with a 326,000 USD grant to support implementation of PNMS
The Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) on Tuesday, August 13, 2019, was awarded with a 326,000 USD grant from Oceans 5—a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA)—to support Phase 2 of the project titled The First Nationwide Marine Sanctuary in Palau. In addition to supporting PICRC in the administration, education and outreach of […]
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P.I.E. Printing donates to 2020 Arts and Tides Calendar
Palau International Coral Reef Center (PICRC) received on September 24, 2019 a donation from P.I.E. Printing to the 2020 Arts and Tides Calendar. Mr. James Da-Chuan Ku, general manager, presented the check of $1,000 on behalf of P.I.E., and remarked on both the importance of the calendar, and the quality of the artwork presented in […]
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Taiwan sends special envoys to congratulate Palau on its 25th Independence Day celebration
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen appointed Minister Icyang‧Parod of the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) to lead the Taiwan delegation as Special Envoy to Palau and to congratulate the latter on its 25th anniversary of Independence Day. Minister Icyang‧Parod and other Taiwanese delegations are in Palau since September 27 until October 2. CIP pointed out that […]
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Taiwan cannot be absent from the global fight against transnational crime
Taiwan serves as key geopolitical hub in East and Southeast Asia. The World Drug Report 2018[1]published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) pointed out that North America, East Asia and Southeast Asia are key regions in the production and consumption of amphetamine. Furthermore, the UNODC report entitled Transnational Organized Crime in […]