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Launch of the Republic of the Marshall Islands High-Level Sustainable Tourism Policy & Development Strategy
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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August 24, 2025
On World Tourism Day, September 27, 2025, the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) will celebrate a major milestone with the official launch of its High-Level Sustainable Tourism Policy & Development Strategy—an innovative framework aimed at...
Donald Trump piles pressure on Iran's economy as nuclear deadline looms
Daily Express
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August 23, 2025
Donald Trump has hit Iran with new sanctions aimed at curbing the Islamic Republic's oil exports. The White House is targeting what it describes as a global oil-smuggling network helping Tehran evade restrictions.One of the key players in the...
Marshall Islands’ president: It’s wrong to ban partners from Pacific Islands…
Pacific News Service
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Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine has told Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele that it will hurt the Pacific Island region to bar numerous development partners from attending meetings with Pacific leaders next month at the Pacific...
U.S. Sanctions 13 Shipping Companies and 8 Tankers to Counter Iran’s Regime
Iran Focus
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August 22, 2025
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned 13 shipping companies and eight oil tankers linked to the Iranian regime, in an effort to counter Tehran’s attempts to evade Washington’s sanctions. On Thursday, August 21, the U.S. Treasury issued an...
Get Ahead of Property Tax and Business License Compliance
CFO Dive
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U.S. sanctions facilitators of Iranian oil trade
United Press International (UPI)
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Aug. 22 (UPI) -- The United States is targeting facilitators of Iran's oil trade, as the Trump administration enforces its so-called maximum pressure campaign on the Tehran regime. The sanctions were announced Thursday, targeting Greek national...
U.S. and UK Each Launch Sanctions on Facilitators of Iranian Oil Trade
The Maritime Executive
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On the same day, the United States and the United Kingdom each announced moves sanctioning more facilitators of the Iranian oil trade. Both countries highlighted in their independent statements that Iran continues its actions across the Middle...
Driving Change: The Jimor Wodejipel Initiative in Sustainable Tourism
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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August 24, 2025
What began as a preparatory effort for the 2024 Micronesian Games has blossomed into a powerful movement for environmental stewardship and sustainable tourism – The Jimor Wodejipel Community Clean-up Initiative. Launched in June 2024, this...
The Marshall Islands finally make their soccer debut: ‘Such a statement for our tiny island’
The Guardian
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August 18, 2025
It was not the typical reaction to a national team going down 4-0. But, of course, this was not a typical national team match. After the Marshall Islands conceded a fourth goal to the US Virgin Islands, the crowd came to its feet, some waving...
SPTO Division of Sustainable Tourism Updates – Issue 66
Pacific Tourism Organisation
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August 24, 2025
Iōkwe from the SPTO Division of Sustainable Tourism! This issue provides a recap of sustainable tourism developments from across the Pacific region during July, highlighting initiatives and updates that are shaping the region’s tourism landscape....
Connections: Marshall Islands Team To Make Global Debut
Northwest Arkansas Business Journal
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August 16, 2025
The Marshall Islands, which was the only United Nations-recognized country without a national soccer team, will debut its men’s team at the 2025 Outrigger Challenge Cup, hosted from Aug. 11-17 at Jarrell Williams Bulldog Stadium in Springdale. The...
ADF continues support for Pacific security
Asia Pacific Defence Reporter
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August 23, 2025
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has continued its successful support to surveillance operations in the Pacific region. Under Operation Solania, the ADF assisted the Solomon Islands through the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) to...
Meet the Fijian female engineers making their mark in Marshall Islands
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 15, 2025
Thirty years ago, the presence of a female worker in the power plants in the Marshall Islands wasn't just unusual; it rarely occurred. Fast-forward to 2025, and five women engineers from Fiji are working for the Marshall Islands Energy Company in...
FFA receives US$6m from US under Economic Assistance Agreement
Solomon Star
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August 18, 2025
HONIARA: The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) on Friday received the US$60 million payment for 2024, under the Economic Assistance Agreement (EAA) associated with the Treaty on Fisheries with the Government of the United States of...
Meet the Fiji female engineers making their mark in Marshall Islands
RNZ
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August 12, 2025
By Eve Burns, of the Marshall Islands Journal Engineers from Fiji working for the Marshalls Energy Company in Majuro, from left; Vasiti Qolikoro, Lucy Tifere, Shannon Prakash, Alexandra Lutuni and Cheryl Shirley Photo: Eve Burns Thirty years ago,...
Bank official steals funds?
Marshall Islands Journal
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August 14, 2025
Front pages from 1982, 1991 and 2011. P1 Theft denied: Commercial Bank closes to wait for cash transfer The Marshall Islands First Commercial Bank has temporarily closed its doors due to a run on the bank caused by rumors of theft of the bank’s...
New Marshall Islands soccer team to debut in Springdale
KFSM - Arkansas
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The Marshall Islands' national soccer team will take to the field for the first time at the 2025 Outrigger Challenge Cup in Springdale this August. SPRINGDALE, Ark. — The world's newest national soccer team will make its debut in Springdale this...
Finance meets with OECD
Marshall Islands Journal
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August 14, 2025
Representatives from the Ministry of Finance’s Division of Customs, Treasury, Revenue and Taxation, along with officials from the Registrar of Corporations for non-resident domestic entities, traveled to Paris in early July to defend the RMI’s...
Marshall Islands President Heine calls out ‘interference’ in Pacific Islands Forum programme
Island Times
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August 8, 2025
MAJURO (MARIANAS VARIETY) —Leaders of the three Pacific nations with diplomatic ties to Taiwan are united in a message to the Pacific Islands Forum that the premier regional body must not allow non-member countries to dictate Forum policies — a...
Marshall Islands oceans talks highlight conservation, development
Marianas Variety
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MAJURO — A National Ocean Symposium opened in the Marshall Islands this week against a backdrop of an innovative fisheries authority that is employing conservation and management tools to break into the tuna value chain in unprecedented ways....