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Podiatrist breaks down diabetic foot health at a GRMC outreach
The Guam Daily Post
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On Saturday, the Guam Regional Medical City (GRMC) hosted a diabetic foot health and wound care outreach event at the Micronesia Mall center court, offering free health care screenings and educating the community to encourage island residents to...
Intersectional Feminist Leadership Needed to Realise Global Goals
Inter Press Service
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July 18, 2025
Active Citizens, Armed Conflicts, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Featured, Gender, Gender Violence, Global, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Labour, LGBTQ, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations,...
GRMC to host free diabetic foot health and wound care event today
The Guam Daily Post
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On Saturday the Guam Regional Medical City is hosting a free outreach event at the Micronesia Mall to raise awareness about the importance of diabetic foot health and wound care to avoid a “dangerous” issue for those living with the condition, if...
Koa Moana 25 delivers medical aid, support ahead of Palau’s Pacific Mini Games
Island Times
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June 27, 2025
KOROR, Palau (Island Times) — U.S. Marines and Sailors with the Koa Moana 25 exercise have deployed to Palau to provide critical support to the Ministry of Health and Human Services (MHHS) as the nation prepares to host the 2025 Pacific Mini...
How the reorganization of the US Department of Health impacts the US Territories
Pasquines
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June 26, 2025
In late March, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. unveiled a sweeping restructuring plan to streamline the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and cut an estimated 10,000 full-time jobs. This...
Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them
WAtoday
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July 18, 2025
Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Pat Conroy said: “The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty is the first agreement of its kind anywhere in the world and the most significant Pacific policy this country has undertaken in the last 50 years.” A...
GRMC lines up staff, community events to celebrate 10 years
Pacific Daily News
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Guam Regional Medical City, the only private hospital on the island, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this July with a series of activities for both staff and the community, including a July 26 health fair. From breaking ground in 2011 to...
Chagui'an massacre site memorial provides 'sense of closure' to WWII survivors, descendants
Pacific Daily News
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During the 1944 American recapture of Guam from Japanese occupation during World War II, U.S. soldiers discovered 45 bodies of CHamoru men beheaded and their hands bound behind their backs in what’s become known as the Chagui’an massacre site in...
UN General Assembly adopts resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire
Global Times
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The result of the vote to adopt a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza is shown on the screens during an Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York, on June 12, 2025. The General Assembly,...
Variations ǀ Survey says
Marianas Variety
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PREPARED by a team of economists and other experts, the Marianas Economic Roadmap includes the results of a community survey conducted from Nov. 14 to Dec. 5, 2024. The confidence level is 95%, and the margin of error is ±4.35%. The results are...
Africa’s Addiction to Aid
Pressenza
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July 17, 2025
by Mesay Berhanu Gemechu Is it the beginning of the end of Africa’s overreliance on foreign aid? Trump’s decision to end the flow of aid going to the developing world, notably Africa, which has been channeled through the USAID over the past...
12K personnel, 400 aircraft in US-led exercise across Guam, Pacific
Pacific Daily News
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Every few minutes at Andersen Air Force base, fighter jets, cargo aircraft and aerial refueling tankers are taxiing down the busy airfield and launching into the skies. While aloft, they train with some 400 aircraft from the U.S. Air Force and a...
Palau, the remote Pacific idyll that habours big ambitions
Spear's Magazine
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July 15, 2025
In American Caesar, his epic biography of General MacArthur, who commanded the USA’s Pacific campaign in the Second World War, William Manchester points out that among many challenges that the US troops faced besides the enemy – earthquakes,...
Letters to the Editor | July 17, 2025
The Fiji Times
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July 16, 2025
Fist of fury! Runqi Zhou, who has been dubbed as the ‘Fist of Fury’, jetted into the country to face Junior Binnu Singh in the highly anticipated bout of the ZEG Kings Boxing Promotion this weekend. During his last visit to Fiji, Zhou did not have...
Brazilian science and technology on Filipino plates: A recipe for agricultural development
Philstar
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July 16, 2025
Contrary to what some may assume, Brazil did not become a major food producer by chance or good fortune alone. Instead, this achievement was built upon decades of rigorous scientific research, technological innovation and strategic investments....
Column: COFA alliances key amid Pacific tension
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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July 16, 2025
Scholars at the East-West Center, military officials in Hawaii and journalists covering the Pacific know a political tsunami can happen at anytime. It could be as dramatic as a Chinese attack on Taiwan, or as modest as a slow-motion seismic shift...
Grove Farm awards $66,000 in scholarships
The Garden Island - Hawaii
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July 15, 2025
LIHUE — The Grove Farm Foundation for 2025 awarded nine scholarships totalling $66,000 to graduating high school students. This is the 16th consecutive year the Grove Farm Foundation has presented three Grove Farm Scholars with a $20,000...
Pacific islands push back against growing climate threats
Climate Home News
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July 10, 2025
The Cook Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia are separated by around 6,000 kilometres of Pacific Ocean. Despite the vast stretch of water between them, the two small island nations share a common challenge: how to protect their people...
Olympic gold medalist Yui Susaki shares wrestling knowledge
Pacific Daily News
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Olympic gold and bronze medalist Yui Susaki started her three-day wrestling clinic on Guam sharing her knowledge of the sport with local athletes. The first two days of the wrestling clinic are at the Father Duenas Phoenix Center and International...
SUSAKI SHARES OLYMPIC GOLD KNOWLEDGE
GSPN
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July 10, 2025
By Paradis Jolie Fejerang Olympic Gold and Bronze medalist Yui Susaki made her way to Guam yesterday to conduct a three day wrestling clinic at the Father Duenas Phoenix Center for the first two days and International Sports Center for the final....