Kiribati News

Three Coast Guardsmen set sail from Hawaii on board a Navy ship yesterday to enforce federal fishing rules in waters west of the islands.

Every time the Atlantic partnership needs reinvigoration, U.S. presidents turn to our nation's silent stone diplomats - the 36 American military memorials throughout Europe.

Leaders of Pacific island nations heaped praise on Japan's aid program and asked for more as the fifth Pacific Area Leaders Meeting geared for its official opening tonight.

When I first heard of The Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten Troost, I thought that it would be an exciting, amorous romp through lands inhabited only by man-eating tribes of savages.

Japanese Premier Taro Aso welcomed the leaders of a clutch of small Pacific islands Friday for a meeting expected to generate fresh aid for clean energy and coping with climate change.

THEY may not have grown up in the area, but three Catholic nuns mean the world to a group of disabled children in their adopted home.

With its suspension from the 16-nation Pacific Islands Forum last week, Fiji has been pushed yet closer to the precipice.

A Malibu man's personal crusade to clean up a trash-strewn beach 5,000 miles away will gain national attention this week when it is the focus of a cable television documentary.

Then there are strange and weird holidays that really have no meaning besides the mere purpose to have an excuse to celebrate something.

Update: 4:54PM KIRIBATI's president Anote Tong says a new approach is needed to sort out Fijis problems.

Published: Monday, April 13, 2009 at 8:41 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, April 13, 2009 at 8:41 a.m. An evening of music and dance this week will help The Full Belly Project.

The Wilmington Rotary Club wants to send books and other media relating to World War II to a library on Tarawa Atoll.

We imagine that unemployment in the U.S. is a serious problem but it is a success story compared with most of the world.

Wilmington historian and devout Rotarian Wilbur D. Jones Jr. has issued an urgent e-mail appeal.

In Military Channel's world premiere of RETURN TO TARAWA, World War II combat veteran Leon Cooper embarks on what he considers his final mission -- to preserve the hallowed ground of one of World War II's deadliest battlefields at Red Beach on Tarawa Island.

The following statement was issued in Tarawa today after the conclusion of an International Monetary Fund staff mission to Kiribati: "An IMF mission led by Mr.

As climate change takes the form of higher sea levels and environmental disasters, millions of "ecomigrants" across the world have been on the move to find more environmentally habitable places.

American computer security specialist Adam Fier has sold his home, got rid of his car and pulled his twin six-year-old girls out of primary school to move to New Zealand .

New Delhi>> Kiribati, a Pacific island nation in danger of being submerged because of global warming, might purchase land elsewhere to relocate its people, President Anote Tong said.

Kiribati, a Pacific island-nation in danger of being submerged because of global warming, may purchase land elsewhere to relocate its people, President Anote Tong said.