By: L.N. Reklai July 5, 2017 (Ngerulmud, Palau) A bill to require businesses grossing $50,000 a year to provide for overtime and holiday pay assessed as one and half times the rate of pay per hour. [restrict] The bill findings state that OEK finds that “the employees specified in Title 13 should be fairly compensated […]
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JICA becomes the first entity in Japan to be accredited by Green Climate Fund
TOKYO, 10 JULY 2017 (JICA) — Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) became one of the first Japanese entities to be accredited by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board earlier this month. [restrict] Established in 2010 at the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), the GCF […]
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Palau on the frontline of climate change in the South Pacific
ROME,10 JULY 2017 (REUTERS) — To see the frontline of climate change, Tommy Remengesau, President of Palau, a small island nation in the Pacific, has to look no further than his backyard. Due to rising sea levels, the garden his wife used keep at the back of their house now gets swamped with salt water […]
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Pacific campaigners welcome UN nuclear weapons ban treaty
SUVA, 10 JULY 2017 (ICAN) — Pacific campaigners on Monday welcomed the adoption by the United Nations of an historic nuclear weapons ban treaty that for the first time establishes international obligations towards victims of nuclear testing and environmental remediation. [restrict] “We hope that all states of the world will fully embrace the spirit of […]
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Stormy G20 ends with opt-outs for Trump on climate, trade
World leaders made concessions on trade and climate language to Donald Trump Saturday at the end of the most fractious and riot-hit G20 summit ever, in exchange for preserving a fragile unity of the club of major industrialised and emerging economies. But the gesture opened the door for others, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan […]
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China floods leave scores dead, displace 1.6 million
Floods and landslides have killed scores of people in China’s central Hunan province as two weeks of torrential rains forced 1.6 million to flee, authorities said Monday. Some 53,000 homes have collapsed while nearly 350,000 others were seriously or partially damaged after 11 straight days of rain, according to Tang Biyu, deputy director of Hunan’s […]