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UOG celebrates Marshall Islands' Green Growth launch, highlights regional collaboration
Pacific Daily News
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The University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant celebrated the launch of the Republic of the Marshall Islands RMI Green Growth initiative. This significant step towards a more sustainable future for RMI has been greatly...
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....
Marshall Islands hopes to access Compact funds
Marianas Business Journal
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BY GIFF JOHNSON Marshall Islands Correspondent United States and Marshall Islands officials worked up to the July 15 deadline to prepare a funding package worth $20 million, submitting it just 15 minutes before the deadline expired. U.S....
Marshall Islands President warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity
RNZ
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August 5, 2025
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine, flanked by Speaker Brenson Wase, right, and parliament Chaplain Rev. Lawson Matauto, at Monday's opening session of parliament where she delivered strongly worded remarks supporting Taiwan's participation as...
Fisheries conservation and sustainability focus of seminar in Marshall Islands
RNZ
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August 6, 2025
Speaking to the opening of a National Ocean Symposium Tuesday, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine called for communities throughout the Marshall Islands to get active in protecting their ocean resources for current and future generations....
LETTER: Why knowing CHamoru history still matters
Pacific Daily News
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Many of us from Guam know the broad strokes: the flags that flew, the bombs that fell, the stories our grandparents told, and the Liberation Day parades each July. But what about way before all that? Long before we were first colonized by Spain in...
Marshallese deportations escalate in Arkansas and elsewhere under Trump
Arkansas Times
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August 5, 2025
Eighteen Marshallese citizens who had been legally residing in Arkansas, California, Washington and Hawaii were deported back to the Republic of the Marshall Islands on June 10, according to a press release issued by the Republic of the Marshall...
Marshall Islands launches Green Growth initiative with UOG support
The Guam Daily Post
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The Republic of the Marshall Islands has launched its Green Growth initiative with support from the University of Guam Center for Island Sustainability and Sea Grant, marking the third successful expansion of the sustainability program across...
The World Court ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US? (Opinion)
Daily Camera - Colorado
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August 10, 2025
The International Court of Justice issued a landmark advisory opinion in July 2025 declaring that all countries have a legal obligation to protect and prevent harm to the climate. The court, created as part of the United Nations in 1945, affirmed...
U.S. Coast Guard conducts bilateral maritime law enforcement operations with Republic of Marshall Islands
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 23, 2025
MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS 07.22.2025 Courtesy Story MAJURO, Republic of the Marshall Islands — The crew of national security cutter USCGC Stratton (WMSL 752) conducted at-sea boardings with the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Sea Patrol...
Forum hears businesses
Marshall Islands Journal
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July 31, 2025
The second Business Forum sponsored by the RMI government and the Marshall Islands Chamber of Commerce was held earlier this week at the USP Campus. Like the first forum held late last year, this one afforded business leaders a chance to engage...
'Modern form of economic imperialism': Iran blasts US sanctions on Indian firms over Iranian oil
Business Today
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July 31, 2025
The Iranian Embassy in New Delhi on Thursday hit out at Washington over its 25% tariff on India and sanctions on six Indian companies for their sales and purchases of petrochemical products from Iran. "The United States continues to weaponize the...
'Typical Trump': Ex-US trade secretary says chaos tactic may open door for India
Business Today
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July 31, 2025
Former United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development, Ray Vickery, has described President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 25% tariff and an additional penalty on India as part of a familiar pattern of disruption. "This...
US sanctions 6 Indian companies for engaging in petroleum trade with Iran
Hindustan Times
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July 31, 2025
On Wednesday, America’s State Department announced sanctions against over a dozen international firms, including 6 Indian companies, for trading in Iranian petrochemical products. The Indian firms will face sanctions under a 2018 Executive order...
Cyprus-based shipping company sanctioned by US over Iran links
Cyprus Mail
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July 31, 2025
A Cyprus-based shipping company by the name of “GMCG Ltd” was designated as “blocked property” by the United States’ government as part of the country’s latest round of sanctions imposed on Iran and its interests. The company is, according to the...
Six Indian companies hit with US sanctions for trading Iranian petroleum
Orissa Post
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July 31, 2025
New York: The Trump administration has sanctioned six Indian companies for their “significant” sales and purchases of Iranian-origin petrochemical products. “The Iranian regime continues to fuel conflict in the Middle East to fund its...
US sanctions 6 Indian companies over trade of Iranian petroleum products
The Siasat Daily
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July 31, 2025
New York: The Trump administration has sanctioned six Indian companies for their “significant” sales and purchases of Iranian-origin petrochemical products. “The Iranian regime continues to fuel conflict in the Middle East to fund its...
US sanctions six Indian companies over trade of Iranian petroleum products
The New Indian Express
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The India-based companies being designated are: Kanchan Polymers -- it has imported and purchased over 1.3 million dollars worth of Iranian-origin petrochemical products, including polyethylene, between February and July 2024 from UAE-based Tanais...
Doug Santschi is the new COO of Handy; Chad Stine is named President of Seattle Fish Company
SeafoodSource
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To keep up to date with the latest personnel changes across the seafood industry, SeafoodSource is compiling a regular round-up of hiring announcements and other personnel-related shifts worldwide. If you have an announcement, please send it to...