Tuesday's announcement by the White House that President Bush designated "...three new marine national monuments in the Pacific Ocean totaling more than 195,000 square miles, an area greater than Oregon and Washington combined" is being applauded by the organizations and individuals in Hawaii who took part in the October 2008 meeting in Honolulu with representatives of James Connaughton, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.....full story
Guam Delegate Madeleine Z. Bordallo yesterday took the oath of office administered by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi alongside her colleagues elected to the 111th Congress. ....full story
Four courageous Pacific Islanders were honored with this year's RRRT/SPC Pacific Human Rights Award to mark the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.....full story
Earlier this year, Cook Islands, Nauru and the Solomon Islands successfully piloted a new screening program for chlamydia. Now, eight more Pacific Island countries and territories-Tonga, Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Fiji, Samoa, Kiribati, Vanuatu and Tuvalu-are beginning a program to screen for and treat the silent sexual infection chlamydia.....full story
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