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President Toribiong yesterday signed the supplemental budget for Fiscal Year 2011 amounting $2,675,000.The supplemental budget allocates funding to the following offices: Office of the President ($89,100), Bureau of Revenue, Customs and Taxation ($20,00...
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President Toribiong yesterday issued proclamations declaring September as cancer awareness month and national alcohol, tobacco and other drug addiction recovery month.As to cancer awareness, the proclamation disclosed that cancer has remained in the top t...
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Kassi Berg of Roll ‘em Productions urged the Office of the Attorney General to reconsider the dismissal of the case regarding violation of Code of Ethics against Sen. Alfonso Diaz “in the interest of justice.”Berg wrote to AG Ernestine Rengiil Frida...
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Senators Camsek Chin and Raynold Oilouch introduced a bill to allow public service employees to accrue unused annual and sick leave, roll over annual and sick leave year after year, convert unpaid overtime into annual leave hours and apply unused leave to...
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Associate Justice Alexandra Foster on Friday issued judgment on the civil action filed by Palau Red Cross Society and its officials against former Red Cross officials and members, in which claims for damages for Sen. Camsek Chin was granted.In Civil Actio...
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The only man convicted for the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jet which killed 270 people when it blew up over the Scottish town of Lockerbie is "comatose" and "near death" in Libya, CNN reported Sunday.The news network said they had located Abdelbaset Ali Mohm...
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Surrounded by a small band of ragtag but ruthless followers, hardline Muslim rebel commander Ameril Umbrakato vows to destroy the latest peace efforts in the troubled southern Philippines.Decades of fighting has neither wearied nor diluted the resolve of ...
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Taiwan evacuated thousands of people, closed down schools and halted rail services on Monday as Typhoon Nanmadol swept across some of the island's most densely populated areas.The typhoon, which left at least 13 dead in the Philippines at the weekend, mad...
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Japan's ruling party was to hold a two-way run-off vote for a new leader and prime minister on Monday after none of the five candidates won a clear majority in the first round. {reg}Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda gained the most votes -- 143 out...
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The first application of hand broadcast and placement of the yellow bait stations for the rat eradication project in Kayangel began on August 23. It took five days for 15 community workers to complete the four islands of Orak, Ngerbelas, Ngeriuns and Ka...
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Make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to {reg}brotherly kindness, love. For...
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Consultants from IT Power and the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) visited Palau last week as part of a United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) study that is investigating opportunities for renewable energy and energy efficien...
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A report of a study released last month by researchers at the Palau International Coral Reef Center shed new light on how bleaching events affect coral reefs. More importantly, this report showed remarkable results on how there is hope for some areas in...
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In 1834, Charles Babbage (1792-1871) designed the Analytical Engine, the precursor of the computer. He was unable to obtain funding for it from the government, who thought it would be worthless.There are many examples of inventions that were way ahead of ...
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NICKNAMES: If Gloria, Suzanne, Debra and Michelle go out for lunch, they will call each other Gloria, Suzanne, Debra and Michelle. But if Mike, Phil, Rob and Jack go out for a brewsky, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Pea...
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A man and woman where on their honeymoon after a long and very happy courtship. On their honeymoon, they decide to take their horses through the beautiful mountain passes of Europe. As the horses were crossing a small stream, the woman's horse mis-steps a...
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A man and woman where on their honeymoon after a long and very happy courtship. On their honeymoon, they decide to take their horses through the beautiful mountain passes of Europe. As the horses were crossing a small stream, the woman's horse mis-steps a...
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Come to the edge, he said.We are afraid, they said.Come to the edge, he said.They came to the edge,He pushed them and they flew - Christopher LogueWhen I read this poem, my eyes were glued to each line. I kept thinking about it – bouncing it around my...
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An 18 year old male turned himself to police officer after he was identified as the one who stole two wrist watches at the duty free shop located inside the Palasia Hotel.
{reg} Based on the blotter on August 20 at around 7:05 p.m. a female caller report...
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A male adult individual is in hot waters as police officers found marijuana buds from a medicine container in his possession last August 21 at the back of the Koror State Government building.
{reg} In the blotter, it was stated that around 8:58 a.m. a ca...
