Chicken Yoghurt (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Shame’s an emotion that’s not much in evidence in these cynical times. The glands that produce it are underused and weakened. I bet they don’t survive our next evolutionary iteration. Take the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean as an example. Back during the Cold War it was actually quite hot - over a period of [...]
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
For the first time, the Marshall Islands are competing in the Olympics.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
For the first time, the Marshall Islands are competing in the Olympics.
mac.ro (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
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Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
I made a brief mention of this story on the weekend in "Short Takes", but I came across a more detailed accounting of what is happening from Pacific Magazine which is worth a read. In summary - rising oil prices are pushing smaller countries like the Marshall Islands that generate power using diesel to the (economic) brink. In this case they are taking the novel approach of considering using OTEC to...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Energy Daily, via Agence France-Presse : The tiny western Pacific island nation of the Marshall Islands has declared a state of economic emergency as soaring fuel prices threaten to shut down electricity supplies. Failure to resolve the fuel crisis could lead to a "disaster of unimaginable magnitude," President Litokwa Tomeing said in a statement late Thursday. "Accordingly, I Litokwa Tomeing, on behalf...
ZD Net (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Marshall Islands National Telecommunications Authority is reporting that a sustained spamming attack during the past 24 hours managed to cause a successful Denial of Service attack on the email services of the islands only Internet Service Provider. More info on the attack : More...
Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
Updated 1 hour 50 minutes ago The Marshall Islands government is to be urged to declare a state of emergency over the worsening energy crisis. The Pacific Magazine is reporting the Marshall Islands national disaster committee has approved a report, recommending that cabinet take pre-emptive action before a disaster hits. Marshalls Energy Company general manager, William Roberts, has told the Pacific...
Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
TWO top officials of the Secretariat of the Pacific islands Applied Geoscience Commission in Suva are attending a workshop in the Marshall Islands on marine aggregates in Majuro Lagoon.
karim'z articles (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
MARSHALL ISLANDS ACCEDES TO FIVE UN TREATIES ON MARINE POLLUTION AND SAFETY New York, May 12 2008 5:00PM The Marshall Islands, one of the world's major shipping nations, has acceded to five important International Maritime Organization (<" http://www.imo.org/home.asp ">IMO) conventions that aim to discourage environmental pollution and promote safety on the high seas, the United Nations agency announced...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 17/04/2008
With the effects of the U.S. atomic tests in the Pacific still lingering, the Marshall Islands' ambassador to Japan and a Japanese victim of a 1954 hydrogen bomb test recently called for a... Read more ...
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Dapeng Sun registers in Hong Kong while Al Aamriya joins Marshall Islands flag.
Newswise (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
Cornell University's CUSat - a student-built, identical-twin satellite system designed to separate so that one twin can obtain three-dimensional images of the other - is one of the three finalists for a June launch from the SpaceX launch complex in the Central Pacific Marshall Islands.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Text of report by Radio New Zealand International text website on 7 March Marshall Islands President Litokwa Tomeing, who prior to his January election called for switching his country's diplomatic recognition to China, will make his first state visit to Taiwan on Monday [10 March].
Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
Update: 12.59pm Nauru and the Marshall Islands have signed an air service agreement that is part of an effort to resume flights into Fiji, the major market in the South Pacific, by Nauru's Our Airline.
