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US Department of Interior Issues Grants to Marshall Islands

OIA issues grant for Prior Service Trust Fund - $1 million to support beneficiaries 359 beneficiaries in the CNMI, 753 in the FSM, 236 in the RMI, and 319 in Palau.

Interior awards grants for Marshall Islands - $985,235 to continue primary health care for members of the Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Utrik

Interior Dept. assists Marshall Islands with utility initiatives - $200,000 grant, from the Operations and Maintenance Improvement Program, will help address 10 percent loss from theft and non-payment

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• U.S., UN Support Pacific Utility Upgrades - Assessment to Help Marshalls Energy Company which lost $3.4 million last year

Marshallese and Micronesians Rally for Continuation of Dialysis and Cancer Treatments

Health plan faces legal challenge - "constitutional failures" in the adverse action notice

Non-U.S. Citizen Group Protests Health Cuts - Governor said she is compassionate toward those affected but her hands are tied.

Senator's Letter: Death Sentence - plan was made public only in late July 2009, not enough time to prepare community

Marshallese patients will die if benefits cut - Foreign Minister John Silk told Hawai'i Gov. in letter last week

VIDEO: Pacific Islander Dialysis Patients Plead for Help - solution if program delayed 6 months.

Health care cuts protested - Elma Coleman said she was disappointed no member of the administration came out.

State health plan raises alarm - Cutting program to deny dialysis, chemotherapy called a 'death sentence'

VIDEO: Pacific Islanders Rally for Health Coverage - plan to no longer pay for chemotherapy and dialysis treatments

VIDEO: Micronesian Kidney Patients Losing Treatment - ""Without dialysis, I'm going to die," said Pius Henry.

Pacific Islanders Protest at Capitol - Helson Thomas carries sign, "I want to live."

Japan Pledges Assistance to Marshall Islands, Pacific Forum Nations

Japan pledges $528m climate aid to Pacific Islands - Marshall Islands gets solar power generation funding.

Tokyo Pacific Islands Centre to promote trade and investment - photos of ground breaking ceremony

VIVA Pacific Islanders" exhibition - Trade Exhibition 2009

Japan PM urges island leaders to create a beautiful eco-friendly Pacific - photos Pacific Island leaders attending

Pacific Leaders call on Japan for leadership in Water and Sanitation - photos of roundtable

Pacific leaders praise Japan aid, call for more - Marshall Islands ability to provided drinking water and adequate sanitation is “constrained by lack of money, skills and transfer of technology"

Marshall Islands Gets Healthy Assistance

Ethno-etiologies of illness and disease in the Marshall Islands - Dr. Carucci and 2 undergraduate research assistants will
conduct field research on Enewetak Atoll, July 9-August 15

Tripler program provides flu shots to Pacific islanders

New campaign promotes healthy eating habits - Educational materials to help prevent obesity to be translated into Marshallese

The Canvasback Diabetes Wellness Clinic is the place to be - ur cooks are preparing meals for the President of the Marshall islands

Mercy & Miracles - Canvasback Missions medical team conduct clinics, surgery on Ebeye

Man makes medical mechanics his mission - Lengyel also shared his expertise with Ebeye Hospital staff members so they can better operate and repair their equipment.

Angwin dermatologist brings medical care to remote island - Isaacs saw and treated between 20 and 30 patients a day, many with fungal infections involving the whole body.

Marshall Islands and Regional Leaders Join Forces in Energy, Environmental Issues

Marshall Islands seeks energy security - Majuro Energy Declaration 2009 will provide valuable input

Marshall Islands copra makers set a record a production for 2008 - 7,641 tons of copra was produced in 2008

FAO encourages Pacific root crop flour production - Samoa and the Marshall Islands, Vanuatu has been exploring the use of cassava

Pacific nations celebrate World Wetlands Day - Designated wetlands sites include the Jaluit Atoll Conservation Area in the Marshalls.

NMI environmental leaders take part in region-wide retreat - 20 participants include Marshall Islands Conservation Society's Steve Why

Pacific states to join forces on tuna - Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority director Glen Joseph says countries will consult on measures to make more money

Marshall Islands: UN, CDC, WHO, Pacific Forum and Regional News

Marshall Islands Hosts UN-Sponsored Sanitation Workshop - encourage adaptation, replication of innovative practices

U.S. Insular Areas And FAS Receive Historic Preservation Grants - Marshall Islands $86,217

Pacific's stability threatened by Beijing-Taipei recognition battle - the new president questioned maintaining ties

U.S. To Fund HPV Vaccination Campaign In Micronesia Region - second most prevalent cancer in the Marshalls

Japan providing first-ever cash grant to Marshalls - a $2.2 million grant to support energy needs

Guam gears up for suit vs feds - David Cohen on FAS: "I don’t agree Guam is owed $400 million"

Floods in Pacific Islands - World Health organization update

PNG to host forum leaders for talks on fiji - Retreat begins January 27, 2009

Marshall Islands and Regional Featured News

Superbly Marshalled Programme Creates Successful Visit - Plans to host a major regional table tennis event on Majuro

Pacific NGOs Prepare for the UN Commission on the Status of Women - 4-day training in Nadi

Walking down cyber streets in the Pacific - 2000 to 2008 the Marshall Islands' Internet use increased 340 percent

Marshall Islands: Government Trust Funds, Visits, and Legislation

Marshall Islands Trust Funds Hit By U.S. Stock Market Plunge - MISSA lost lost $2.1 million in September

H.E. President Litokwa Tomeing met with Taiwan delegation - representative of Taiwan’s Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP).

S. 1756 Reported, Placed on Calendar - with an amendment in the nature of a substitute

Marshall Islands Sports and Health News

Pohnpei Team Sets New Marlin Record In Majuro - Alex Tretnoff's massive record-breaking 794-pound marlin

Marshalls Billfish Club - 16th Annual All-Mic Photos and round-up report

The lesser-known great stories of Beijing 2008 - As Asafa Powell won his heat of the 100m, Roman Cress of the Marshall Islands went totally unnoticed.

How Some Other Olympic Stories Ended - Anju Jason coolly accepted his fate after losing to the British junior champion

Oceania in Beijing Newsletter (Marshall Islands) - Oceania Women in sport luncheon and other news in photos

Defeating Diabetes: Lessons From the Marshall Islands - some participants making remarkable recoveries and others slowly regressing.

Off-island Marshallese Share Culture and Find Opportunities

SPRINGDALE Swears In First Marshallese Officer - Gomez Zackious became the first Marshallese speaker

PHOTOS: Gomez Zackious, city's first Marshallese police officer. - sworn in to the Springdale Police Department on Tuesday

SPRINGDALE : 7 new officers include city’s first Marshallese - not the first Marshallese applicant, but the first to make it through testing.

SPRINGDALE: On the Road for Literacy - Lee Elementary in Springdale mobile library van will be ready to begin making its rounds during the second week of June.

GUAM: Center will help Micronesians join work force - assist Micronesians in obtaining higher-paying jobs and assimilation into community

SAIPAN: CNMI welcomes Oceania Athletics Championship - Competitors from 19 different countries

LONG BEACH: Pacific Islander Festival - featured Marshallese Coconut Weavers - Greta Briand and island dancers

SALEM: Enjoy an adventure without leaving Salem - World Beat Festival Saturday and Sunday, June 28-29, in Riverfront Park

Marshall Islands President Welcomed by Marshallese in Arkansas

Marshallese officials visit area’s islanders - President Tommeing accompanied by his wife, Arlin; Phillip Muller, the Marshall Islands’ ambassador to the United Nations; and Ben Graham, the country’s ambassador to the United States.

Marshallese Gather To Celebrate - President Announces New Consulate Coming To Springdale. Both President Tomeing and DeBrum said problems facing the Marshallese community in the United States include health care, education and learning the life skills needed to get by in a new world that is in many ways foreign to them.

PHOTO: Litokwa Tomeing, president of the Republic of the Marshall Islands - Greeted Saturday by members of Northwest Arkansas' Marshallese community at Jones Center

Springdale High School Graduation - RMI President Litokwa Tomeing and first lady Arlin Tomeing, grandson received his diploma.

A Special Celebration - President Tomeing displayed his respect for both countries on his chest. "He's wearing a lapel pin that has an American flag and the Marshallese flag so that speaks volumes," says State Senator Bill Pritchard.

VIDEO: Marshallese Celebrate 29 Years Of Self-Government - Local live TV from Northwest Arkansas covers opening ceremony with President Litokwa Tomeing and Minister Tony deBrum

Marshall Islands, Micronesian Agreements, Meetings and Updates

Marshall Islands accedes to five UN treaties on marine pollution and safety - one of the world’s major shipping nations

Palau to host Micro Games in 2010 - Marshall Islands National Olympic Committee rejected it because of lack of sport facilities.

10th Annual Conference of the Oceania Customs Organisation (OCO) - Chief Secretary Casten Nemra chaired the Conference.

APA Aims To Move Plane Monday - transports large volumes of yellowfin tuna from Micronesia and Marshalls

Earthrace at crucial stage - two stops away from its midway point at the Marshall Islands

Pacific Bank Names New Board, Aims For Increased Membership - Finance Minister Jack Ading attended, RMI invited to join

Marshall Islands Court, Legislative, Health and Economic Updates

Case against Marshalls 201 stays - partly owned by the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) and Koo's Fishing Co

NMI, Guam asked to join Hawaii in Compact-Impact request- form a coalition to effectively compete with mainland states

Global warming on next APIL agenda- will be discussed at the association's board meeting in the Marshall Islands in November

'Update study on health of Pacific islanders'- Chief executives have written Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye to lobby for another Institute of Medicine report on the health status of the U.S.-associated islands in the Pacific.

National Planner Says People Need 'Financial Relief'- Called for reducing or eliminating student registration fees for public schools

Marshallese in the News at Home and Abroad

Della W. Nakamoto, originally from the Marshall Islands, is Vice President and Account Executive Insurance Services for the Bank of Hawaii. Her article, "Are You Insured Against Employee Lawsuits?" is featured in this month's Hawaii Business Magazine. Read more about this and other Marshallese updates:

• Bank on It - Article by Della Nakamoto
• Five Marshall Islands athletes going to Bejing - Cress, Nemra, Jason, Heine and Kirchner
• Women's Giving Circle Awards $60,000 to Campus Projects - $7,500 for Marshallese “The Reading Room”
• Arkansas joins two other states to discuss Marshallese matters - how to secure government-funded health care

Marshall Islands Government and Political News

Air Marshall Islands Gets First Plane Airborne After 6 Months - Using $1.6 million in special grants Taiwan

AMI relinks the outer islands - "We had a full flight inbound" from Jaluit, Kili

Marshall Islands to see Wang at nat'l celebrations - May 1 National Day celebrations on President Chen Shui-bian's behalf

Senate Bill Not Dead - Stayman said the political environment less favorable for passage of S. 1756

Micronesian chief executives meet today in Palau - Minister Tony DeBrum arrived on Wednesday.