The United States Department of State (DOS) has announced recently that United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will expand its staff presence in Palau and other Pacific island nations. In a press statement on August 17, the DOS said that under the Indo-Pacific Strategy, the US will allocate $36.5 million in new assistance to […]
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Ten Chernobyls on a Pacific Island
By Pitamber Kaushik Between the end of the Second World War and 1958, Marshall Islands’ atolls were the United States’ go-to nuclear testing field. The first-ever test called Able was conducted in 1946 on Bikini Atoll, in which the bomb was dropped from a B-29 Superfortress and detonated mid-air, a mere 158 m above the […]
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Fiji welcomed back to the Pacific Islands Forum
FUNAFUTI, 12 AUGUST 2019 (PACNEWS) — Tuvalu’s Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga has welcomed the return of Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama to the Pacific Island Forum meeting in Tuvalu this week. Fiji will be represented by the Prime Minister for the first time since it was re-admitted in 2015 after six years of suspension from […]
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World War II Pacific battlegrounds now site of US-China tug of war
MAJURO,12 AUGUST 2019(AFP)— Pacific islands that were key World War II battlegrounds but largely neglected for the past 30 years are now back in the spotlight as China challenges traditional US supremacy in the region. Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands, whose territories stretch thousands of kilometres across the Pacific, have […]
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Japanese envoy downplays move in Pacific not an attack on any country
Japanese Assistant Secretary and International Press Division Director Naoaki Kamoshida said that Japan is not targeting any country in its recent feat in the region as part of the “free and open Indo-Pacific” push. In a press briefing, Kamoshida told the Times that Japan is ready to coordinate with any country in the region but […]
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Australia’s lax climate policy poses challenge on small island nations’ pleas for global action
Palau President Tommy Remengesau, Jr. feared small island developing states’ pleas for global climate action might be drowned out by Australia’s lax climate policy. Remengesau told the media on Wednesday, July 31, that if Australia, being situated in the midst of the Pacific, does not take the lead in curbing climate change then it would […]