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China travel industry news (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
China: Island leaders are right to advocate tourist visa-waiver program | guampdn.com | Pacific Daily News The federal government is formulating visa-waiver regulations that will apply to both Guam and the Northern Mariana islands. Those regulations could be crafted by Nov. 4. The China market is critical to the survival of our tourism industry. Guam’s No. 1 [...]
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Ballot Access News (Free subscription) | 28/05/2008
On May 8, President Bush signed S.2739 into law. It gives the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands a non-voting Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. Other places with such a Delegate are D.C., Puerto Rico, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam. The Northern Mariana Islands has been working towards this goal [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
Telecommunications in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) make use of the latest digital fibre optic cables and satellites that are connected to worldwide networks. A wide range of services are available to the islanders, including dial-up and broadband Internet, cellular, integrated voice and data systems, international private lines, payphones, prepaid phone cards, voicemail,...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
Two Colorado-based antiabortion groups are criticizing former U.S. Rep. Bob Schaffer (R), a candidate with a solid antiabortion voting record who is running for the U.S. Senate, for not acknowledging human rights violations in the Northern Mariana Islands, where Chinese factory workers have allegedly undergone forced abortions, the Denver Post reports (Hoover, Denver Post, 4/21).
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Feminist Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
The Senate voted 91-4 yesterday to apply federal immigration laws to the US Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and phase out the islands' exploitative "guest worker" program. A 2006 Ms. expose doc...
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TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
Whoops. Just days after Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer touted the Northern Mariana Islands as a model for a national guest worker program, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a massive omnibus bill that included a provision to overhaul the...
