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... with Mr. Kofi Annan and Ashok Kholsa, President of IUCN, and also met informally with Anote Tong, President of Kiribati. During the meeting with Kofi Annan, Mr. Annan emphasized the importance of vulnerable countries getting together to form a ... Comment?
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H-bomb woman's compensation battle
... home,a she said. FASTFACTS: Christmas Island Today known as Kiritimati, the atoll is today part of the Republic of Kiribati. It is 124 square miles and sits 144 miles north of the equator and 3,300 miles from San Francisco. During the Cold War, ... Comment?
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Navy-Coast Guard team enforces fishing rules
... year by the Coast Guard cutter Rush that resulted in a $700,000 fine against a Japanese-flagged fishing vessel in Kiribati waters. The Rush took on board three law enforcement officers from the Republic of Kiribati during part of its voyage. The ... Comment?
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Hooper: Our fading Pacific legacy
... U.S. fights in World War II, saved their battle memorial site in 1988, when the young democratic Republic of Kiribati decided to build a cold-storage plant on it for a Japanese fishing fleet. But now the battlefield at Red Beach, where many people ... Comment?
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U.S. neglects legacy of WWII in Pacific
... U.S. fights in World War II, saved their battle memorial site in 1988, when the young democratic Republic of Kiribati decided to build a cold-storage plant on it for a Japanese fishing fleet. But now the battlefield at Red Beach, where many people ... Comment?
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... Michelle Bachelet speaks at the Harvard Kennedy School. Anote Tong, president of the Pacific island-nation of Kiribati, explains the plight of his native land, imperiled by rising global sea levels, in the "Green Conversations" lecture series ... Comment?
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A Review of The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost
... is about the transition of the author and his wife Sylvia to the remote island of Tarawa in the island nation of Kiribati after living in the metropolitan United States for a period of time. Though I was admittedly disappointed when I reached the ... Comment?
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Japan woos Pacific island leaders
... opposed by China, which is also wooing the Pacific. Leaders or officials from Australia, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand , Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, ... Comment?
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Pacific leaders praise Japan aid, call for more
... to play a lead role in funding programs to stabilize sanitation systems and fresh water capacity in the islands. Kiribati President Anote Tong said a 16-month drought in Kiribati has forced his government to deliver drinking water by ship to remote ... 1 comment
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Pacific Leaders call on Japan for leadership in Water and Sanitation
... 10 Pacific Island Leaders, including the Prime Minister of Niue HE Mr Toke Talagi, the President of the Republic of Kiribati Mr Anote Tong, the President of the Federated States Comment?
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Pacific Partnership to Run as Scheduled Aboard USNS Byrd
... due to an H1N1 virus diagnosis. USNS Richard E. Byrd will conduct the four-month humanitarian assistance mission to Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands and Tonga, U.S. Pacific Fleet officials announced yesterday. USNS Byrd is a ... Comment?
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... father to 13 physically disabled children living in the hostel of the Lautoka Crippled School. The nuns are from Kiribati and Rabi. The children are from within the Lautoka area. On any given Sunday, they can be seen happily attending mass with the ... Comment?
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Dev Nadkarni: Forum's hard line brings ripple effect to Pacific nations
... not surprising therefore that there were reports on the eve of the suspension that the President of the Republic of Kiribati had threatened to cancel his country's membership of the Forum if Fiji were suspended. Kiribati has a lot to be worried ... Comment?
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Wilmington Rotary Club collects WWII books
... the club is asking the public for new and used WWII books and movies. The material will be sent to the Republic of Kiribati, where it will be distributed to a local convent library by the U.S. Navy. Jones, traveled there recently and says he was ... Comment?
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Swire Shipping to upgrade South Pacific liner services
... capital of New Caledonia. From Noumea, cargo will be feedered fortnightly to Vanuatu and monthly to Tarawa in Kiribati via the Greater Bali Hai service. The two new vessels, which will augment four existing 914 teu Islander-class ships, will call at ... Comment?
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WWII docu brings filmmaker, veteran full circle
... In the film, Barber documents Cooper's first trip back to Tarawa, part of the Gilbert Islands in the Republic of Kiribati, since he was 22. During that journey in March 2008, Cooper discovered that Red Beach was covered with trash, unexploded ... Comment?
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Tarawa has become a different sort of battlefield
... a dumping ground covered by garbage, generated by the fast-growing population of the South Pacific island nation of Kiribati. The 47-minute account of Cooper's campaign will be aired at 10 p.m. Friday on the Military Channel and be repeated Saturday ... Comment?
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Briefing - Asia Telecommunications - April 14, 2009
... that Hong Kong has matured as a leading wireless city in the region." DIGICEL CANCELS PLANS FOR MOBILE SERVICES IN KIRIBATI TARAWA - Pacific communications giant Digicel has cancelled plans to establish service in Kiribati, saying the government ... Comment?
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Holidays on Earth Today: April 18, 2009
... Birthday: 1963 *Cindy Pickett Birthday: 1947 *Dorothy Lyman Birthday: 1947 *Richard Harding Davis Birthday: 1864 2. Kiribati : *Health Day 3. Zimbabwe : *Independence Day 4. Canada : *Constitution Day 5. Denmark : *Dybbldagen (Slaget ved Dybbl): ... Comment?
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Kiribati's president says new approach is needed on Fiji
Kiribati's President Anote Tong says a new approach is needed to sort out Fiji's problems, reports Radio New Zealand International, He and some other leaders of Pacific nations said Fiji will languish for years unless dialogue continues with the military regime there. Comment?
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