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Integrating Tech and Community for Effective Early Warnings: Savelinga Faʻoliu, Tonga
UN International Training and Research Center
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March 27, 2025
The early warning system programme’s first phase was held online, and the top-performing participants were invited to a final 12-day study tour in Japan – Savelinga among them. Visiting Japan was a transformative experience for Savelinga. Japan,...
The Metals Company Announces Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Corporate Update Conference Call for Thursday, March 27, 2025
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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March 21, 2025
NEW YORK, March 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TMC the metals company Inc. (Nasdaq: TMC) (“TMC” or the “Company”), an explorer of the world’s largest undeveloped resource of critical metals for building infrastructure, power generation,...
‘Age of Secrets’ Biography on John Meier Exposes the Howard Hughes Organization as a Front Company for the CIA
EIN Presswire
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March 25, 2025
John Meier was the First Person to Expose the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Involvement with the Hughes Organization NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, March 25, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- "Age of Secrets: The Conspiracy that Toppled...
‘Age of Secrets’ Biography on John Meier Exposes the Hidden Death of the World's Richest Person Howard Hughes
EIN Presswire
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March 18, 2025
John Meier was the Only Person to Call for a Congressional Hearing and Investigation Into the Death of Howard Hughes NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, March 18, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- "Age of Secrets: The Conspiracy that Toppled Richard...
Microbix & ACPCC support efforts to eliminate cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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March 17, 2025
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario and MELBOURNE, Australia, March 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Microbix Biosystems Inc. (TSX: MBX, OTCQX: MBXBF, Microbix®), a life sciences innovator, manufacturer, and exporter, and the Australian Centre for the Prevention of...
World First: TMC and PAMCO Achieve a New Nodule Processing Milestone, Unlocking Critical Energy & Steelmaking Materials at Existing Facilities
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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February 18, 2025
TMC and PAMCO have successfully demonstrated the production flowsheet for its initial commercial production using a 2,000-tonne sample of nodules collected during TMC subsidiary Nauru Ocean Resources Inc.’s 2022 test mining, at PAMCO’s commercial...
Pacific Islands gather in Funafuti for first-ever Plastic Dialogue
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 8, 2024
7 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - With the community of nations deadlocked in international negotiations to conclude a global instrument to end plastic pollution by the end of 2024, a first-of-its-kind Plastic Dialogue was convened today in...
Pacific Islands region waste management challenges under the microscope at Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 6, 2024
5 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - Officials and delegates at the Fourth Clean Pacific Roundtable (4CPRT) have been urged to develop tailor-made waste disposal and management measures that are of practical use and application to circumstances in...
ADB Appoints Emma Veve as Director General for Pacific
Asian Development Bank
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February 3, 2025
MANILA, PHILIPPINES (3 February 2025) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has appointed Emma Veve as Director General of its Pacific Department (PARD), where she will be responsible for the department’s vision and strategy in the subregion....
RexoSwap Promotes Bitcoin Payment Pilot in Tonga, Strengthening Global Compliance Development
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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January 31, 2025
New York, Jan. 31, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Recently, the leading digital asset trading platform RexoSwap announced its formal support for Tonga's Bitcoin payment pilot project, helping the country establish a more modern digital payment...
Visit by Minister in the Prime Minister's Office, Second Minister for Education and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman to the Kingdom of Tonga for the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting, 26 to 29 August 2024
Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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August 26, 2024
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Education and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohamad Maliki Osman will visit Tonga from 26 to 29 August to attend the 53rd Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Leaders Meeting. The PIF is...
PRESS RELEASE – DOCTORS TOUMOUA AND TAUTOGI STRENGHTHENING SAMOA’S PATHOLOGY SERVICES
Government of Samoa
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January 21, 2025
Apia, SAMOA –22nd January 2025. Samoa’s pathology services are being strengthened by the efforts of Dr Seventeen Toumoua and Dr Mareta Tautogi, who are working together to provide essential diagnostic services and build local expertise for the...
Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade Hon. Peter Shanel Agovaka signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon
Solomon Islands Government
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September 26, 2024
Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade Hon. Peter Shanel Agovaka signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon Solomon Islands signed and ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. at the margins of...
Tonga Launches its National Single-Use Plastics Roadmap
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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September 4, 2024
26 August 2024, Nuku'alofa Tonga - The Kingdom of Tonga today launched a National Single-Use Plastics Roadmap aimed at phasing out single-use plastics (SUPs) in the country. This strategic roadmap will provide a clear pathway for targeted actions...
Championing Disaster Resilience in Tonga
UN International Training and Research Center
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December 2, 2024
In 2017, Luisa – still new to the disaster management field – joined the second cycle of the UNITAR Women’s Leadership in Tsunami-based Disaster Risk Reduction Training Programme. Since 2016, the programme has been implemented with the support of...
Pacific Partnership 2024-2 Concludes Second Mission Stop in Legazpi, Philippines
U.S. Navy
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August 19, 2024
In a collaborative effort between Australia, Japan, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States, PP24-2 participants held basic first aid workshops for 98 members of the community; taught health and music...
Pacific Partnership 2024 - 2 Concludes Second Mission Stop In Legazpi, Philippines
U.S. Navy
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August 15, 2024
In a collaborative effort between Australia, Japan, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, United Kingdom and the United States, PP24-2 participants held basic first aid workshops for 98 members of the community, taught health and music...
Pacific countries and SPREP envision future of work to manage waste and pollution
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 8, 2024
8 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - Waste management and pollution control remains one of the most pressing environmental issues facing the Pacific, a region already struggling with the impacts of the triple planetary crises of climate change,...
Pacific-EU Waste Management Programme’s contribution to Cleaner Pacific highlighted in Tuvalu
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
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August 3, 2024
2 August 2024, Funafuti Tuvalu - A project designed to ensure the safe and sustainable management of waste with due regard for the conservation of biodiversity, health and wellbeing of Pacific island communities is making a tangible difference in...
The Metals Company Provides Third Quarter 2024 Corporate Update
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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November 14, 2024
NEW YORK, Nov. 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TMC the metals company Inc. (Nasdaq: TMC) (“TMC” or “the Company”), an explorer of lower-impact battery metals from seafloor polymetallic nodules, today provided a corporate update and financial results...