Marshall Islands News

The Team is supported by the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat. Palau is the 10th Forum Island Country to have volunteered to undertake this peer review process.

Six Faulkner County residents have been inducted into the Beta Zeta Omega Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society for the spring 2013 semester at Pulaski Technical College.

A vessel captain in charge of towing Shell's troubled oil drilling rig, the Kulluk, when it left a Seattle shipyard back in June said Tuesday that the gear was more than strong enough, the crews were qualified and that under the right conditions, a winter transit through the Gulf of Alaska could have been done safely.

A regional dialogue for civil society organisations on conflict, peace, and security issues was held at the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat from 6-10 May 2013.

The latest version of the U.S. Senate immigration reform bill restores Medicaid eligibility to migrants from three Pacific island nations in Micronesia.

The New Zealand Red Cross is sending an emergency response team to the Republic of the Marshall Islands to assist with a potential humanitarian crisis caused by drought.

The mission, called EVEX, for the Equatorial Vortex Experiment, will launch two rockets for a twelve-minute journey through the equatorial ionosphere above the South Pacific.

One of Vancouver's two inimitable "Hobbit Houses" is on the market for an asking price of $2.86 million.

Cmdr. Christine Johnson examined the inside of a boy's ear at a remote medical humanitarian civil assistance site for Pacific Partnership 2011.

The Pacific Asia Travel Association, or PATA, is seeking new members for its Micronesia chapter.

Thousands of gallons of drinking water and solar-powered water-making units are being rushed this week to drought-stricken populations in the Marshall Islands "We've got 3,700 people without drinking water," said national water advisor Tom Vance on Wednesday following a trip to Mejit Island.

DAT/EM Systems International has hired Patrick A Teagarden as Technical Support and UAS Specialist.

Image Caption: A NASA Terrier-Improved Orion sounding rocket leaves the launch pad at Roi Namur, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as part of the Equatorial Vortex Experiment .

Minister Tony de Brum of the Republic of the Marshall Islands describes the clear and present danger posed by climate change to his nation, and urges the world to act against this threat.

Today in U.S. naval history - May 6. 1909 - Great White Fleet anchors in San Francisco 1916 - First ship-to-shore radio telephone voice conversation from USS New Hampshire off Virginia Capes to SECNAV Josephus Daniels in Washington, DC 1942 Capt.

On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am pleased to send warmest congratulations to the people of the Republic of the Marshall Islands on the anniversary of your nation's independence on May 1. The citizens of our countries enjoy a friendship based on shared history, traditions, and commitments, and we are grateful for ... (more)