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America’s counterattack on China’s growing influence in the Pacific islands
WorldNetDaily
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August 24, 2025
Master-at-Arms 2nd Class James Phelps from Indianapolis, Indiana, assigned to the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40), conducts a dive at the grotto on the island of Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Oct. 27, 2021. (U.S....
Australia tops new list of most expensive passports in the world - but here's the list of countries it will get you into without a visa
Daily Mail
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August 24, 2025
By NICHOLAS WILSON, NEWS REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 | Updated: 09:53 EDT, 24 August 2025 The Australian passport has been revealed as the most expensive in the world for the second year in a row, but research suggests...
Job seekers weigh work demands with personal needs at 2 job fairs
The Guam Daily Post
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On Saturday, two separate job fairs - the Goodwind Career Day and McDonald's of Guam - attracted a mix of first-time job seekers, returning workers and experienced professionals. The Guam Daily Post spoke with job seekers searching for...
Qantas extends Brisbane–Palau flights to 2026 amid surge in Australian visitors
AeroTime News
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August 20, 2025
Qantas has prolonged its direct flights from Brisbane to Koror, the capital of Palau, a Pacific island nation in Micronesia, for an additional year after the service, named the ‘Palau Paradise Express’, proved to be popular among Australian...
After Geneva, how can the world salvage a plastics deal?
China Dialogue Ocean
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August 19, 2025
Talks at the UN headquarters in Geneva to reach an agreement to end plastic pollution came to a haphazard conclusion last week, with 184 countries unable to agree to a deal. Nations rejected two versions of the draft treaty presented by the...
U.S. and oil producers block a treaty to clean the world of plastic pollution
Liberation News
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August 18, 2025
Landis is the author of the book Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism. The fifth session of the UN Plastics Treaty negotiations ended on Aug. 15, once again in a deadlock. Over 100 countries came to the table, with the majority pushing for a...
Showcasing the ‘Hidden Treasures of the South Pacific’ to Australian travel trade
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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August 14, 2025
PTI Australia is supporting some of the Pacific’s most remote nations to strengthen their presence within the Australian travel trade through participation in the 2025 Treasures of the South Pacific (ToSP) Roadshow. By equipping travel agents with...
Biomanufacturing: Scale-up vs Scale-out Economics
BioPharma Dive
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Hyatt Centric to make Osaka debut in 2031
Hotel Management Network
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August 22, 2025
Hyatt Hotels has announced that a Hyatt affiliate has reached a management agreement with Kanden Realty & Development to bring the first Hyatt Centric hotel to the Japanese city of Osaka. Slated to open in 2031, the upcoming hotel will form part...
D.C. Memo: Trump’s takeover of D.C. continues
MinnPost - Minnesota
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August 22, 2025
D.C. Memo | A recap of a week’s worth of Washington political news, journalism, and opinion, delivered with an eye toward what matters for Minnesota. WASHINGTON — The nation’s capital continued to be roiled by President Donald Trump’s escalating...
4 major trends shaping today’s oncology market
BioPharma Dive
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The world will end in 25 years, humanity will die and towns will become slaughterhouses: Oxford scientists' nightmare prediction, their proof it's inevitable and why billionaires in their bunkers should tremble
Daily Mail
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August 22, 2025
In a game of Russian roulette with a standard Colt revolver, the chances of instant death are one-in-six. Terrifyingly, that's the same as the odds of humanity being wiped out within 75 years – everyone dead in a cataclysmic and total breakdown of...
Get Ahead of Property Tax and Business License Compliance
CFO Dive
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The mother and daughter team who took on the longest longitudinal yacht race in the world
Yachting World
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August 22, 2025
Competing in the Melbourne Osaka Cup is an epic mother-daughter adventure for Annette Hesselmans and Sophie Snijders Fika rolls in the swell as Sophie clings to the mast. Twenty-four hours since we left Melbourne, we are sailing through Bass...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – August 15 – August 21, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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August 22, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Guam advances hornet tracking technology to protect regional bee colonies
The Guam Daily Post
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The Guam Department of Agriculture's biosecurity division has successfully completed its first year of using advanced radio telemetry technology to track greater banded hornets, achieving key insights that could benefit both local beekeepers and...
Variations ǀ Yesterday still has a lot to say
Marianas Variety
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Garapan Elementary School, 1976 Trust Territory Photo Archives STUDYING history lets you step back and see today’s pressing issues in perspective. For example, education. In the CNMI, education is a smashing success, but it seems that few of us...
US to rehabilitate postwar dock in Palau to boost military readiness in the region
The Pacific Island Times
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August 15, 2025
By Pacific Island Times News Staff Peleliu—The U.S. Department of Defense proposes to rehabilitate an 80-year-old dock in Palau to enhance the U.S. military forces’ capabilities in the region. According to Joint Task Force Micronesia, the $12...
Securing Strategic Depth: REFORPAC Enables MAAS Installations and Certification Across the Indo-Pacific
DVIDS - Georgia
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August 20, 2025
U.S. Pacific Air Forces are forging new paths in operational readiness and strategic depth across the expansive Indo-Pacific amidst the sweeping scope of exercises Resolute Force Pacific 2025 and Cope Thunder 2025. REFORPAC is part of the...
Djibouti shows what Sogavare’s deal with China really means
Pacific News Service
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By Michael Shoebridge Why shouldn’t we believe Beijing’s claims that its security agreement with Honiara won’t result in a base or place to operate its navy from in Solomon Islands? Because we’ve seen this playbook before: in Djibouti on the Horn...