Fiji as a Pacific island nation is about to witness a 2018 plebiscite that signifies the concept of liberty, equality and fraternity, but the colonial governance system in Pacific Islands is a debatable theme due to its outcomes in respective colonies. Pacific Islands have noticed the conflicts under colonial administration between the colonizers and colonized. […]
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Historical Mysteries: Does Tripartite Division of Pacific Islands Exist?
The Pacific Ocean geographical dimension is roughly one third of the earth’s surface, the homeland for thousands of large and small islands. The early European tried to comprehend the structures and institutions of the Pacific Islands, thus, categorized them in three groupings. This article tries to review the debate of the division of Pacific Islands […]
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Educational Planning in the Pacific Islands is the Need of Hour
Pacific Islands have witnessed rapid and drastic changes since last century in field of educational planning, i.e. moving away from hierarchical to more decentralize and learner focused; from power over supervision to power to empower; impact of globalization and planning for unknowable future, so educational planning has become the need of hour. Educational plans for […]
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UN Global Goals – Taiwan can help
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, set bold goals to shift the world onto a sustainable, resilient path. Here was also pledged the formation of a revitalized Global Partnership for Sustainable Development including all countries, all stakeholders and all people, such that […]
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Time For Palau To Bring Back Capital Punishment
Race-hate killer and child rapist Amador Osima`s cunning recent escape from prison highlights that sometimes incarceration just isn’t enough to protect society. When it comes to the threat posed by unrepentant, hate-driven murderers and sadistic perverts, only the reinstitution of the death penalty can keep the public safe. In the late 1960s, amid a post-modernist […]
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Analysis: What does China Really Want From Palau?
Moves by communist authorities in mainland China to strictly enforce rules prohibiting tour groups from holidaying in Palau have understandably caused a lot of head-scratching here in Koror. It is easy to conclude that the pressure coming from Beijing is all just a strong-armed gambit designed to force Palau to open up diplomatic relations with […]