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Master Chief Jericho Diego leaves mark as NUWC Division, Keyport senior enlisted leader
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 15, 2025
Master Chief Jericho Diego, master diver at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division, Keyport, leaves behind a lasting legacy as he prepares to retire in August. Diego also served as the command’s senior enlisted leader from November 2021 to May...
Governor drums up regional support for her Guam hospital project
The Pacific Island Times
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July 13, 2025
Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero with Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Governor of Guam The 27th Micronesian Islands Forum has adopted a resolution supporting the development of a regional medical complex on...
IHG Continues Growth Momentum of the Holiday Inn Brand in Japan
Hospitality Net
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July 15, 2025
Tokyo, Japan – IHG Hotels & Resorts (IHG) today announced a further agreement with FET SYSTEM INC, to rebrand two hotels to ANA Holiday Inn, bringing the first international branded hotels to Sanda and Tosu City. The 130 room ANA Holiday Inn Kobe...
Holiday Inn Heads to Sanda and Tosu: IHG Brings First International Hotels to Emerging Japanese Cities
Rus Tourism News
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July 15, 2025
IHG Hotels & Resorts has announced a significant expansion of its footprint in Japan with the rebranding of two existing properties into ANA Holiday Inn hotels, marking the first international hotel presence in both Sanda and Tosu City. The move...
Easter Island may have influenced Polynesia more than once believed
Ynet
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July 14, 2025
Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world, located in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, about 2,300 miles west of the South American continent. Now, surprising new findings have emerged about its history since it was first...
Palau, the remote Pacific idyll that habours big ambitions
Spear's Magazine
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July 15, 2025
In American Caesar, his epic biography of General MacArthur, who commanded the USA’s Pacific campaign in the Second World War, William Manchester points out that among many challenges that the US troops faced besides the enemy – earthquakes,...
Pacific News In Brief For 15 July
Scoop
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Samoa - elections In a historic milestone for Samoa, two prominent members of the Samoa Fa'afafine Association (SFA) have announced they will be candidates in the upcoming general election. Afioga Falesaopule Seimaleula Vaialia Iosua will be...
Seabed Strategy: Why Nauru Should Be Central to Trump’s Deep-Sea Mining Vision
[your]NEWS
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July 14, 2025
By Emmanuel Ogbonna In an executive order issued in April 2025, President Donald Trump emphasized the strategic necessity of offshore critical minerals in building U.S. supply chains that are independent of adversarial nations like the People’s...
Pacific islands push back against growing climate threats
Climate Home News
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July 10, 2025
The Cook Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia are separated by around 6,000 kilometres of Pacific Ocean. Despite the vast stretch of water between them, the two small island nations share a common challenge: how to protect their people...
In our 50s, we moved to a remote Pacific island. We know we'll need better healthcare someday, but for now, it's paradise.
Insider
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July 11, 2025
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Buz Moffett, 63, who moved from Hawaii to Pohnpei, an island in the Pacific Ocean that's part of the Federated States of Micronesia, with his wife in 2018. It has been edited for length and...
Palau honors RMI
Marshall Islands Journal
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July 10, 2025
Palau’s National Olympic Committee, during a dinner in Palau last Sunday, praised Marshall Islands NOC President Tony Muller for a well-run Micronesian Games in 2024. During the Games Dinner attended by all 23 countries and territories competing...
RPNGC TO HOST FIRST EVER MUSICAL BAND TATTOO COMPETITION
PNG Haus Bung
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July 13, 2025
The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) will host a Police-Band parade and first ever musical band Tattoo competition in honor of the nation’s 50th Independence Anniversary, the event to take place on Tuesday July 22nd in Port Moresby...
Micronesian Islander Community breaks grounds on new affordable apartment building
Salem Reporter - Oregon
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July 7, 2025
Dozens of people gathered Monday at the future site of a new apartment complex which will include a colorful community center for Salem’s vibrant and growing Micronesian Islander community. Voyagers Village, the new four-story 45,000 square-foot...
USAID Cuts Could Transform U.S. Ties to Pacific Islands
Foreign Policy
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July 8, 2025
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to raise concerns about the rush of executive actions since U.S. President Donald Trump took office...
Parvati Shallow Says RIP to the ‘Black Widow’ and All That
Wired
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July 8, 2025
Parvati Shallow, the reality TV maven and one-time Survivor winner, can now also add published author to her list of achievements. The legendary schemer, who orchestrated scores of blindsides on the beaches of the Cook Islands, Micronesia, and...
NZ visa for Pacific Forum countries allows longer stays
Talanei
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July 11, 2025
New immigration changes introduced by the New Zealand Government July 6, allowing Pacific Islanders to be issued with a two year multiple entry visa has been welcomed by Samoans and fellow Pacific Islanders. Under the change they are now able to...
The Traitors star Parvati gets in drag as Boston Rob to lip-sync 'Shallow'
Out Magazine
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July 11, 2025
A new drag king has entered the villa – erm, Scottish castle! Reality TV queen Parvati Shallow, who turned up the heat in season 2 of The Traitors, and a winner of the Emmy-winning Survivor, has now delivered an iconic drag performance dressed as...
US: Caribbean nationals among several foreigners detained at Guantanamo Bay
The Nation Barbados
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July 11, 2025
WASHINGTON – Nationals from three Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are among foreign nationals being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, according to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It said the detainees are from Haiti, Jamaica,...
'67 Bombs to Enid' tells story of Marshallese community in Oklahoma
Tulsa World - Oklahoma
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Filmmaker Ty McMahan grew up in Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Until he began working on a documentary that recently premiered, he had no idea about this piece of Oklahoma history: Between 1946 and 1958, the United States detonated 67 atomic bombs across the...
Olympic gold medalist Yui Susaki shares wrestling knowledge
Pacific Daily News
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Olympic gold and bronze medalist Yui Susaki started her three-day wrestling clinic on Guam sharing her knowledge of the sport with local athletes. The first two days of the wrestling clinic are at the Father Duenas Phoenix Center and International...