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Worst Navy Disaster at Sea Led to Safety Changes
MilitarySpot - Alabama
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July 29, 2025
USS Indianapolis (CA-35) JULY 29, 2025 – Eighty years ago on July 30, 1945, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine, resulting in the deaths of 880 sailors and Marines, making it the Navy’s worst disaster at sea. In...
Guam Elite Basketball camp to pair visiting greats with STEM program
The Guam Daily Post
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Guam Elite Basketball announced the 2025 Legends Meet the Future Camp & Classic, Sept. 6-7, featuring basketball standouts Joseph Lin (New Taipei Kings, 2025 TPBL Champion and younger brother of global icon Jeremy Lin of "Linsanity" fame), Jason...
Page 12 - GVB positions Guam as premier education travel destination in Japan
The Guam Daily Post
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Seeing an increase in potential for educational tourism growth on Guam, the Guam Visitors Bureau is positioning the island as a premier destination for Japanese tourists specifically student groups through targeted forums and partnerships. GVB...
Trading places: Education options
Marianas Business Journal
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BY OYAOL NGIRAIRIKL AND MARK RABAGO Journal Staff, Saipan Correspondent JohnsonAcross Micronesia, career and technical education is being reshaped by home-grown institutions in an effort to meet the region’s workforce needs head-on. In Guam and...
Petrostates Blow Up UN Plastics Conference
CleanTechnica
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August 15, 2025
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. In March 2022, 175 nations agreed to make the first legally binding treaty on plastic pollution by the end of 2024. Think of it as the Paris Climate Accords of 2015, but...
Life as a Māori librarian in Trump’s America
The Spinoff
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August 15, 2025
Poet and librarian, Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā), unfurls her life as an open education librarian at the University of San Francisco in the age of president Trump. I work as the open education librarian at the University of San Francisco...
Aydlett brothers to attempt most complex tower project yet with Dubai replica
The Guam Daily Post
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Twin meteorologists Landon and Brandon Aydlett are preparing for their most challenging Tower for Humanity project to date, announcing plans to construct a scaled replica of Dubai's One Za'abeel Tower at Agana Shopping Center this fall. The...
Car Carrier Giant Bans Planet Saving EV Shipments To Hawaii Over Fire Risks
AutoSpies
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For Hawaiians looking to drive electric, be that a pure EV or PHEV, a new obstacle has rolled in. Matson, Inc., one of the state’s primary shipping providers and a major player in Pacific cargo routes, has decided to stop transporting electric and...
Community Events: Pet wellness fair on Saipan; Farmers' health screening; Food safety month
The Pacific Island Times
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August 15, 2025
AK, Saipan and Saipan Humane Society host Pet Wellness Fair on Aug. 16 Saipan— Atkins Kroll Saipan is partnering with the Saipan Humane Society to host a Pet Wellness Fair on Aug. 16, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. t the Atkins Kroll Showroom in Puerto...
Latter-day Saints plans 9-unit housing next to Yigo temple
Pacific Daily News
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The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints’ plans to build a nine-unit housing facility for church patrons next door to their Yigo Guam Temple got the green light from the Guam Hybrid Land Use Commission on Thursday. A new two-story,...
Everybody Has a Story: Boat delivers a surprise lesson
The Columbian - Washington State
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In the spring of 1972, my friend Steve and I bought a boat. We were both teachers at Marshall Islands High School in Majuro, the capital of the Marshall Islands. We were both post-Peace Corps. Steve had been in Palau, at the western end of...
James Vincent: Where the Power Is
London Review of Books
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August 14, 2025
Just six elements are always necessary for the formation of life as we know it: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur. Collectively, they are known by the clumsy, vaguely pharaonic acronym CHNOPS (though I prefer the more...
Start small, start now: A new generation of hope—from office requests to island protection
Pacific Daily News
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Earlier this month, a tiny, feathered drama unfolded in the middle of our office. Not one, but two, baby ko’ko’ or Guam rails were chirping loudly, prompting me to leap from my desk to address their very serious concerns: endless snack requests,...
U.S. eyes deeper ties with Cook Islands
Samoa News
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August 13, 2025
#. US-Cook Islands meet PACIFIC NEWS BRIEFS w_header Compiled by Samoa News staff The United States is looking to build stronger ties with the Cook Islands following a historic diplomatic visit this week by its Chargé d'Affaires, David Gehrenbeck,...
Facing persistent challenges: GHRA seeks solutions to advance Guam’s tourism
Marianas Business Journal
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“I don't want to keep dealing with the same problems year after year. I want to find solutions,” said Mary Rhodes, president of the Guam Hotel & Restaurant Association. Rhodes spoke to the Journal following an Aug. 8 meeting at Nikko Hotel Guam...
Pacific Countries ‘Drowning’ in Plastic Spurs Australian Film Director to Head to UN Treaty Negotiations
The Epoch Times
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August 13, 2025
An artwork by Canadian artist, activist, and photographer Benjamin Von Wong entitled "The Thinker's Burden" a 6-meter-tall sculptural remix of Rodin's iconic Thinker, which is being created for the Plastics Treaty negotiations is seen in front of...
Food as a weapon
Stabroek News
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August 13, 2025
On Thursday, 12th June, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly backed a resolution on demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all hostages and resumption of humanitarian aid to stave off...
The cute invader eating your hog plums: What you need to know about the sineguelas leaf beetle
The Guam Daily Post
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Guam’s hog plum trees are facing an unexpected new threat - the sineguelas leaf beetle, also known as the hog plum beetle (Podontia quatuordecimpunctata). This striking, brightly colored insect may look cute, but it is a serious invasive pest....
PNG Welcomes Humanitarian Mission
The National Tribune
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August 13, 2025
Department of Defence The thrum of engines from the USS Pearl Harbor echoed across the Port of Lae, PNG, signalling the start of Pacific Partnership – the US Navy’s largest annual humanitarian assistance and disaster relief mission in the...
Celebrating Bastille day
Philstar
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August 13, 2025
OMG - Gracie Go - The Philippine Star August 14, 2025 | 12:00am Why is the French National Day known as Bastille Day? Parisian revolutionaries and a mutinous troop stormed and dismantled Bastille, a royal fortress and prison that had come to...