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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/06/2008
All telecommunications services in Micronesia are provided by government-owned FSM Telecom (FSMTC), including Internet and mobile telephony. The telecommunications infrastructure compares favourably with many of the islands in the South Pacific region. Great distances between islands and their isolated location coupled with mountainous terrain and dense jungle add to the difficulties in deploying cost-effective...
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Solomon Star (Free subscription) | 04/25/2007
... of people living with HIV.Some forty delegates from Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu and Cook Islands attended the consultation.Meanwhile, Mr Forau said this SI figure might increase when the National AIDS Council confirmed the actual number.He said this latest figure...
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Solomon Star (Free subscription) | 04/16/2007
... the keynote address to some forty delegates from Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, Nauru, Niue, Tokelau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Kiribati, Fiji, Tonga, Tuvalu and Cook Islands , respected Australian Judge and HIV activist, the Honourable Justice Michael Kirby said “a lot of painful and difficult steps need to be taken.”
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Fijilive (Free subscription) | 04/06/2007
... the Joint Working Group held its first meeting in Suva yesterday. Senior officials from Australia, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Marshall Islands and Tuvalu attended the meeting. The Working Group gave provisional approval for a Terms of Reference and also agreed that it be called the Pacific Islands Forum-Fiji Joint Working Group on...
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Facing South (Free subscription) | 04/02/2007
... four states opposed it (Israel, Marshall Islands, Palau, United States) and one abstained (the Federated States of Micronesia).
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Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 03/07/2007
... that governments make as partners to CEDAW. The nine countries covered in the report are Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshal Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu and Kiribati.Mrs Rimon said the report was a step toward enhancing the status of women in the Pacific."The decision to ratify CEDAW is a major breakthrough and step forward in...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 03/05/2007
... Namakin told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.The country of some 100,000 people, formally known as the Federated States of Micronesia, consists of hundreds of islands three-quarters of the way between Hawaii and Indonesia.Many islanders are also noticing changes.Pohnpei resident Rihse Anson said the sea is now just a few inches below her house floor after rising by about a foot in the last 20...
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Modern Tribalist (Free subscription) | 02/26/2007
... epidemic which is affecting a third of its adults. The next bulkiest people are to be found in the Federated States of Micronesia, then the Cook Islands, Tonga, Niue, Samoa and Palau. Kuwait, at number eight, is an exception to the South Pacific rule, as is the United States, in ninth place, where 74 per cent of adults are considered overweight. "Many Pacific islands are not conducive to...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 02/26/2007
... bad, with almost all of its adult population bulging at the waistline. The situation in the Federated States of Micronesia, Tonga and the Cook Islands is only slightly better. According to the World Health Organisation, about 90% of men and women in these isolated corners of the Pacific are obese or overweight. A change in diet and a lack of exercise are key factors, and Western junk food...
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China Matters (Free subscription) | 02/19/2007
... Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, Cook Islands ,the Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, and Tuvalu. Japan, of course, yearns for a permanent Security Council seat, together with the rest of the G-4 group of aspirants—Germany, India, and Brazil—to which it has linked its candidacy. It views occupying a non-permanent seat as an important part...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 02/19/2007
... classified as such, based on the most recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO). The Federated States of Micronesia, Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga round out the top five, all with a portly population of over 90 percent. The U.S. weighs in at No. 9, with 74.1 percent of those over 15 years old considered overweight. But given that its population is nearly 20,000 times that of...
