カテゴリー: Marshall Islands
Quarterly payments of $200 to be offered via stablecoin or traditional currency in a scheme designed to ease cost of living pressures in the Pacific nationThe Marshall Islands has introduced a national universal basic income (UBI) scheme that offers pa…
The slow process to rebuild parliament, the Nitijela, begins as the Pacific nation confronts the loss of a vital cultural landmarkIn Majuro, a day after fire ravaged the national parliament, the full devastation became clear. The building known as Niti…
A blaze on Tuesday night destroyed the parliament building, archives and libraryA fire has destroyed the national parliament building of the Marshall Islands, according to officials in the Pacific Island nation.The Marshall Islands fire department said…
Supporters of the UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons gathered this month in New York to call for wider ratificationGrowing up in the Pacific nation of Kiribati, Oemwa Johnson heard her grandfather’s stories about nuclear explosions he witnessed in t…
Lai Ching-te’s US stopover on trip to Marshall Islands, Tuvalu and Palau – three diplomatic allies of the self-governed island – prompts Beijing’s protestsThe Taiwanese president, Lai Ching-te, has begun a two-day US stopover in Hawaii as part of a Pac…
Guardian analysis shows web of agreements between Pacific countries and Australia, US and China, as experts raise concerns over rising militarisationAs competition for influence in the Pacific region intensifies, analysis by the Guardian has mapped a v…
Teams in the Marshall Islands, which is littered with unexploded weapons from the second world war, uncover and detonate potentially deadly devicesThe Marshall Islands is a nation of atolls – hundreds of small islands carpeted in coconut palms and pand…
After months of delay, Congress approved Cofa funding for north Pacific nations but Washington needs to show it can deliver for the wider regionA dysfunctional US Congress finally got its act together and approved a $7bn funding package for three Pacif…
Hilda Heine says US funding delays damage relationship with the Pacific nation as lawmakers say hold-up delivers a ‘gift’ to ChinaHilda Heine, the president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, has warned relations with the US are “gradually being …
Tuvalu, Palau and the Marshall Islands hold diplomatic ties with Taiwan despite pressure from China to switch sidesChina’s rising power in the Pacific explained in 30 secondsAs a king tide swept through Tuvalu this month, flooding homes and disrupting …
The Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau say Congress needs to approve fresh support announced by Joe BidenLeaders of Pacific Island countries allied with the US have become increasingly anxious about the US congressional budg…
Pacific nation plagued by environmental effects of 67 bomb tests between 1946 and 1958, including Castle Bravo detonation in 1954The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands has called for more US compensation over the legacy of massive US nuclear test…
Former staff have criticized the interior department for ignoring the risk of fraud after the Trump administration ceased scrutiny of a $59m fund for nuclear survivors, which is now depletedFormer staff have lashed the US Department of the Interior for…
Marshallese are looking for ways to stay connected to their home as climate change and poor economic prospects force them to leaveEvery summer when Tony Paul was a child in Kwajalein, an atoll in the Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands, his parents …
Ellekan, an islet in Marshall Islands, has been reduced to a pile of sand in the middle of the reef. Those who loved it have already held its funeralBefore it is lost is series of essays from the Pacific islandsOn a trip to the islet of Kalalen, eight …