Tag: Marshall Islands
Seven decades on, Marshall Islands still reeling from nuclear testing legacy
By Lydia Lewis
The Marshall Islands marked 71 years since the most powerful nuclear weapons tests ever conducted were unleashed last weekend.
The Micronesian nation experienced...
Four decades after Rongelap evacuation, Greenpeace makes new plea for nuclear justice by US
Asia Pacific Report
In the year marking 40 years since the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French secret agents and 71 years since the...
A Wall of Shame – but do Pacific Islanders even notice gender deaths?
One report of a five-part series focused on the 15th Triennial Conference of Pacific Women that took place in the Marshall Islands last week....
Chinese ‘miracle water’ grifters infiltrated UN, bribed politicians to build Pacific dream city
By Aubrey Belford, Kevin G. Hall and Martin Young
A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future...
Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been ‘squandered’
By Giff Johnson in Majuro
Following widespread media coverage of the collapse of what was a more than US$70 million trust fund for Bikini islanders...
US envoy persuades two of three north Pacific nations to sign defence deals
By Giff Johnson in Majuro
Two Pacific nations considered by Washington as crucial in its competition with China for influence in the region have agreed...