HONIARA, 04 NOVEMBER 2019 (SOLOMON STAR) —-The United States says it’s committed to fund infrastructure projects here, including Bina Harbour in Malaita, despite the China switch. Port Moresby-based US ambassador to Solomon Islands, Catherine Ebert-Gray made the assurance during an interview with the Solomon Star. It was her fifteenth and final visit here before her […]
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Fires spare Reagan library but menace homes near Los Angeles
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A wind-whipped outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles on Wednesday threatened thousands of homes and horse ranches, forced the smoky evacuation of elderly patients in wheelchairs and narrowly bypassed the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, protected in part by a buffer zone chewed by goats. With California tinder dry and fires […]
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Why the US may struggle to entice Pacific partners to help contain China
WASHINGTON, 29 OCTOBER 2019 (SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST) — China is actually gaining ground on the US in this battle for hearts and minds, as Beijing’s recent poaching of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies and the Solomon Islands has shown – there is even speculation that the Chinese an island in the latter as a naval base. […]
Posted inPacific News
Remains identified of World War II Marine who died at Tarawa Atoll
PHILADELPHIA, 24 OCTOBER 2019 (AP) — The U.S government says the remains of a Marine who died in a Pacific island battle during World War II have been identified as a 23-year-old Philadelphia man. The Defence POW/MIA Accounting Agency says the remains of Marine Corps Reserve Pvt. Joseph F. Boschetti were accounted for on 08 […]
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The U.S Military is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into tiny Wake Island
HONOLULU, 22 OCTOBER 2019 (CIVIL BEAT) — Amid mounting tensions in the Pacific, the U.S. government is investing a lot of money on infrastructure at an isolated atoll, Wake Island, best known as the site of a heroic World War II battle. Little information is publicly available about Wake, a secretive military base on a […]