Marshall Islands News

A group of Papua New Guineans survived two months adrift on the Pacific Ocean in a tiny boat, with no food and just the clothes they were wearing.

Describes the preliminary findings of IMF staff at the conclusion of certain missions .

Seven Papua New Guineans adrift in the Pacific Ocean for more than two months have been rescued but two have since died, a ship captain says.

The Close Up Foundation received a $1 million grant for its programs in Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of Palau, United States Virgin Islands and American Samoa, the foundation announced on Friday.

William H. "Bill" Hunter is an excellent subject for a Veterans Day column. He spent World War II on an island few people had heard of and even fewer could spell or pronounce.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands recently received two grants from the U.S. Department of the Interior for health-care programs and power utility initiatives.

11 - The Department of the Interior's Insular Assistant Secretary Tony Babauta signed a technical assistance grant in the amount of $985,235 to continue primary health care for members of the Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Utrik communities in the Marshall Islands.

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The Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands and the Republic of Palau all have their own Social Security systems, but the agencies treated numbers issued by the three nations as if they were U.S. numbers, regardless of whether they were already in use.

IMAGES Nuclear tests in the South Pacific[Credits : Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc.] A test of a U.S. thermonuclear weapon at Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands, [Credits : U.S. Air Force - Time Life Pictures/Getty Images] Main atoll, Marshall Islands also spelled Eniwetok atoll, northwestern end of the Ralik chain, Republic of the Marshall ...

Marshall Islands President Jurelang Zedkaia called for the country to pull together and put political divisions behind it during his inauguration ceremony Monday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it has corrected a processing glitch that linked U.S. Social Security numbers to those issued in three foreign countries.

Today is Sunday, November 1, the 305th day of 2009. There are 60 days left in the year.

Watching the waters rise Fallen palm trees are concrete evidence of climate change, but that's difficult for some islanders to admit.

THE U.S. Department of the Interior is now processing the CNMI's fiscal year 2010 reimbursements for hosting migrants from the Freely Associated States for $1.9 million - down by $3.2 million compared to previous years as more Micronesians have moved to the more affluent American communities on Guam and Hawaii.

The Marshall Islands parliament on Monday elected the speaker, Jurelang Zedkaia, as the Pacific island country's fifth president.

Hobart native Tom Dettweiler knows what didn't happen to Amelia Earhart when she disappeared in July 1937 while trying to fly around the world.

A temporary restraining order halting the state from switching Pacific islanders to a health plan without dialysis or chemotherapy coverage has been extended pending completion of a rule-making process.

Last month, when the state Department of Human Services announced the elimination of certain medical services, such as kidney dialysis and chemotherapy, for about 7,500 Micronesians, Victor Geminiani immediately filed suit to block the cuts.

Officials from Pacific island countries, which may become the earliest victims of climate change, are set to devise a strategy for the crucial Copenhagen conference.