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Fisheries forum receives K248mil under assistance agreement
The National
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THE Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has received the US$60 million (about K248.7 million) payment for 2024 under the Economic Assistance Agreement (EAA) – associated with the Treaty on Fisheries with the United States of America. FFA...
40 Taiwanese youth ambassadors to visit Marshall Islands, Hawaii, Guam
Focus Taiwan
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August 12, 2025
Taipei, Aug. 12 (CNA) A group of 40 Taiwanese students aged 18 to 35 will visit the Marshall Islands, Hawaii and Guam later this month, as part of an annual government-funded youth ambassadorship program, a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)...
New Marshall Islands soccer team to debut in Springdale
KFSM - Arkansas
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The Marshall Islands' national soccer team will take to the field for the first time at the 2025 Outrigger Challenge Cup in Springdale this August. SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The world's newest national soccer team will make its debut in Springdale this...
Palau president calls exclusion of PIF partners a 'missed opportunity'
RNZ
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August 19, 2025
President Surangel Whipps Jr at his first state visit to Taiwan in May 2025 after the inauguration of his second term. Photo: Supplied/ Office of the President Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr says it is "a missed opportunity" not to include...
Marshall Islands President Heine calls out ‘interference’ in Pacific Islands Forum programme
Island Times
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August 8, 2025
MAJURO (MARIANAS VARIETY) —Leaders of the three Pacific nations with diplomatic ties to Taiwan are united in a message to the Pacific Islands Forum that the premier regional body must not allow non-member countries to dictate Forum policies — a...
Marshall Islands oceans talks highlight conservation, development
Marianas Variety
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MAJURO — A National Ocean Symposium opened in the Marshall Islands this week against a backdrop of an innovative fisheries authority that is employing conservation and management tools to break into the tuna value chain in unprecedented ways....
UOG celebrates Marshall Islands' Green Growth launch, highlights regional collaboration
Pacific Daily News
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The University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant celebrated the launch of the Republic of the Marshall Islands RMI Green Growth initiative. This significant step towards a more sustainable future for RMI has been greatly...
Marshall Islands President warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity
RNZ
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August 5, 2025
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, flanked by Speaker Brenson Wase, right, and parliament Chaplain Rev. Lawson Matauto, at Monday's opening session of parliament where she delivered strongly worded remarks supporting Taiwan's participation as...
Marshall Islands hopes to access Compact funds
Marianas Business Journal
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BY GIFF JOHNSON Marshall Islands Correspondent United States and Marshall Islands officials worked up to the July 15 deadline to prepare a funding package worth $20 million, submitting it just 15 minutes before the deadline expired. U.S....
Youth diplomacy
Taipei Times
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August 18, 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung, third row, sixth left, Marshall Islands Ambassador to Taiwan Anjanette Kattil, third row, fifth left, and Department of NGO International Affairs Director Charlie Chiang, third row, seventh left, take a...
Discover the Marshall Islands — A Hidden Pacific Paradise
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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August 6, 2025
The Marshall Islands, a stunning archipelago of over 1,200 islands and atolls in the central Pacific, offer much more than just pristine turquoise lagoons and white sandy beaches. This remote island nation is a treasure trove of rich cultural...
Fisheries conservation and sustainability focus of seminar in Marshall Islands
RNZ
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August 6, 2025
Speaking to the opening of a National Ocean Symposium Tuesday, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine called for communities throughout the Marshall Islands to get active in protecting their ocean resources for current and future generations....
Devon coach helps Marshall Islands football team
BBC
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Jonathan MorrisBBC News, South West ShareSave The Marshall Islands team is ready for their first opponents A footballer from Devon is helping to put a remote nation on the global football map. Matt Webb, a centre-back for Sidmouth Town and...
Vulnerable nations demand funding for climate losses, fearing UN ‘talk shop’
Pacific News Service
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The surging costs of climate change-driven destruction have made vulnerable nations poorer by about one-fifth, 55 such countries said on Wednesday, as fears grow that UN discussions on money for states to repair and avoid harm could become a “talk...
Grounded bulker refloated in Canada
Lloyd's List
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August 18, 2025
A BULK carrier that ran aground in a crucial Canadian waterway has been refloated after some of its cargo was unloaded. The Marshall Islands-flagged, 37,145 dwt, 2013-built Federal Yamaska (IMO: 9609665) was en route from Brazil to Montreal when...
Life after deportation: Marshall Islands Halfway House proposed
The Pacific Island Times
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August 3, 2025
Microwaves By Jack Niedenthal Riem Simon spent 13 years in U.S. prisons and now wants to help the rising number of deportees from the U.S. adjust to Marshallese society through a program he has developed: “Welcome to the Marshall Islands Halfway...
Marshallese deportations escalate in Arkansas and elsewhere under Trump
Arkansas Times
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August 5, 2025
Eighteen Marshallese citizens who had been legally residing in Arkansas, California, Washington and Hawaii were deported back to the Republic of the Marshall Islands on June 10, according to a press release issued by the Republic of the Marshall...
Marshall Islands launches Green Growth initiative with UOG support
The Guam Daily Post
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands has launched its Green Growth initiative with support from the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant, marking the third successful expansion of the sustainability program across...
‘No one wants to leave’: Marshallese communities push back against the migration narrative
The Pacific Island Times
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August 9, 2025
In the Marshall Islands, where land is not just property but lineage, identity and spiritual inheritance, the idea of leaving is not an option. Even as rising seas flood runways, submerge burial grounds and transform forests into sandbars,...
UH Hilo anthropologist: Marshallese wayfaring and brain science
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
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August 9, 2025
Reading time: 2 minutesMarshallese master navigators read the water and wind to find their way. (Photo: Chewy Lin via University of Stirling) A University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo professor is collaborating on a groundbreaking study into the heart of...