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Palau tightens airport inspections to Curb illegal Marine exports
Island Times
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September 2, 2025
By: Eoghan Olkeriil Ngirudelsang AIRAI, Palau — “Over the years we know of many instances when such products are taken out of Palau, but we had no way of stopping such practices,” Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment Minister Steven Victor said...
Palau Track and Field opens to Public with new $1 Entry Fee, visitors adjust to change
Island Times
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September 2, 2025
By: Faith Chen After the exciting conclusion of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games, Palau’s track and field venue officially opened its gates to the public on July 21, 2025. While the reopening was eagerly anticipated by local athletes and fitness...
Workshop equips Palau Journalists to tackle disinformation
Island Times
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September 2, 2025
By: Laurel Marewibuel Koror, Palau (Sept. 1, 2025) — “This workshop has helped me understand journalism better and taught me a lot about being a reporter,” one participant said after completing a two-day training led by Professor Steven Youngblood...
Palau Climate Champion calls for resource, capacity support for SIDS on Article 6
Pacific News Service
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The high level political champion flying the flag for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and its outcomes from COP26 says there is still a long way to go for information, capacity and resourcing for work in this area. Palau’s Minister of...
Rizwana calls for global partnerships to protect oceans
The Business Standard
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September 3, 2025
Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources Syeda Rizwana Hasan urged stronger global partnerships and cross-sector collaboration to safeguard marine resources, warning that unchecked...
6PAC+ prepares IMO submissions, demands just transition
Pacific News Service
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“We want to ensure the International Maritime Organisation is in alignment with principles of international environmental law and advances a just and equitable transition in the decarbonisation of international shipping.” That’s the message from...
The Pacific’s united front on climate action is splintering over deep-sea mining
The Conversation
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August 31, 2025
In recent years, Pacific island nations have earned global credibility as champions of climate action. Pacific leaders view sea level rise as an existential threat. But this united front is now under strain as some Pacific nations pursue a...
Climate change is driving fish stocks from countries’ waters to the high seas: Study
Mongabay
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August 29, 2025
A new study found that more than half of the world’s straddling stocks will shift across the maritime borders between exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the high seas by 2050. Most of these shifts will be into the high seas, where fisheries...
Palau and Pacific Islands push for Equity, funding in High-Seas Biodiversity Treaty
Island Times
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August 29, 2025
UNITED NATIONS — As the world negotiates the future of life in the oceans beyond national borders, small island developing states are making their voices heard. At the second session of the Preparatory Commission for the Marine Biodiversity of...
Palau Bureau of Agriculture employees suspended, terminated after Safe Stolen, $50K Missing
Island Times
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August 29, 2025
By: Eoghan Olkeriil Ngirudelsang Ngchesar, Palau — A break-in at the Bureau of Agriculture’s Livestock Division in Ngchesar has prompted employee suspensions and terminations, officials said. On July 14, the Bureau of Agriculture (BOA) reported to...
Palau hosts Northern Pacific ICE Advanced Intelligence training course
Island Times
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August 29, 2025
Immigration representatives from Palau, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) gathered for the highly anticipated Northern Pacific Immigration Core Elements (ICE) Advanced Intelligence course from the...
Global action needed to tackle marine threats: Adviser Rizwana
United News of Bangladesh
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Environment Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Wednesday urged the global community to strengthen partnerships and cross-sector collaboration to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 14 on oceans. “Only collective action can safeguard marine resources...
Pacific Islands focus: health, environmental, security and geopolitical updates
Croakey Health Media
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August 28, 2025
Calls to tackle violence against women in the Pacific region, efforts to alleviate the impacts of extreme heat, new guidelines to assist in protection of whales, and concerns about deep sea mining are among the topics covered in the latest edition...
Tiny Vanuatu steps up to protect the climate
Bangkok Post
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August 27, 2025
Although the International Court of Justice (ICJ) turned 80 this year, there is a sense in which it has never felt younger. In a David-versus-Goliath moment, the tiny Pacific Island state of Vanuatu recently changed international law forever by...
Petition calls for clear US-Palau defense agreement to protect civilians
Marianas Variety
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KOROR (Island Times/Pacnews) — A petition circulating in Palau calls on the national leadership to open talks with the United States on a separate, detailed agreement spelling out when and how Washington would defend Palau — and how civilians...
Pacific must manage expectations on ICJ climate ruling, says experts
Television Niue
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August 26, 2025
The landmark advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling on climate change has set a new global momentum in place, but Pacific SIDS who led the journey must also manage expectations. Key experts in the Pacific Climate...
U.S. Senators visit Palau to discuss Security, Military presence
Island Times
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August 26, 2025
By: L.N. Reklai KOROR, Palau (AP) — Two senior U.S. senators are visiting Palau this week to meet with President Surangel Whipps Jr. and his cabinet, reaffirming Washington’s security commitments while facing questions about the scope of America’s...
2nd JCC meeting for J-PRISM3 in Palau is successfully held
Island Times
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August 26, 2025
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been implementing “Japanese Technical Cooperation Project for Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island Countries Phase 3 (J-PRISM3)” since July 2023 in the...
Qantas continues its weekly flight to Palau
TTR Weekly
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August 25, 2025
SYDNEY, 26 August 2025: Qantas will operate direct flights between Brisbane and Koror, Palau’s capital, for a second year following the route’s success since its launch in December 2024. The service, known as the ‘Palau Paradise Express’, will...
Pacific news in brief for 3 September
RNZ
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September 2, 2025
President of Palau Surangel Whipps Jr. July 2023 Photo: flickr / FDD / Chris Williams Palau - asylum seekers Palau President Surangel Whipps Jr says the country should maintain dialogue with the United States, despite leadership opposing a US...