President Tommy Remengesau Jr. will be the keynote speaker in this year’s 18th Pacific Region Investment Conference (PRIC) in Manila, Philippines. The PRIC is a gathering of fiduciaries from the Asia Pacific region run by the Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies (APAFS), a non-for-profit educational and charitable association which assist fiduciaries to grow and protect […]
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Remengesau awarded Mission Blue’s first Blue Heart Leadership Award
Palau President Tommy Remengesau, Jr. became the first recipient of Mission Blue’s Blue Heart Leadership Award in recognition of his efforts in protecting the oceans. Mission Blue, an organization founded by Oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle that is dedicated in inspiring actions to protect the oceans, held an awarding ceremony on November 7 at the Palau […]
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Remengesau sees future growth amid tourism slump
President Tommy Remengesau Jr. assures the tourism industry members on Tuesday at the BTA general membership meeting that he sees a future growth in the tourism industry despite the decline in tourist numbers in recent years. “It was with members of the tourism industry and the business community and the numbers they provided that led […]
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Remengesau says Palau is championing fight vs. NCDs
President Tommy Remengesau Jr. said Palau is championing the fight against non-communicable disease (NCD) as he takes part in the third United Nations High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases, which kicks off Sept. 27 in New York. In a statement last week, Remengesau said that at the “start of the 73rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), […]
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Political convenience and other traits of Palau leadership
Koror/PACNOTE- – On Oct. 28, 2015, Palau President Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. signed into law the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act, an ambitious ocean conservation initiative aimed at protecting Palau’s own marine resources as well as the world’s tuna stocks. This landmark legislation creates a no-take marine sanctuary covering 80 percent of Palau’s exclusive economic […]
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Remengesau welcomes Australia’s “step-up” engagement in the Pacific
President Tommy Remengesau Jr. welcomed Australia’s government‘s move to step-up its engagement in the North Pacific, adding that the high-level visit of Foreign Minister Julie Bishop here showed Canberra’s commitment to being a strategic partner in Micronesia. “We truly appreciate the visit of the Foreign Minister Bishop and the bipartisan senators, we would like to […]