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Ash Carter’s blissful bubble of oblivion

Edit Asia Times 03 Jun 2016
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks at the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduation and commissioning ceremony in Annapolis. Let it be said I am not a fan of the Ash Carter perspective ... My view is that attempting to sustain U.S. military predominance at the same time U.S ... In Asia, the U.S ... imagine the alliance circling the U.S ... As for the U.S… ... PM ... Well, whether an atoll is one hectare or 50 hectares does not change the strategic situation....

Marshall Islands Turns to IAEA for Help in Measuring Food and Environmental Pollution (IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency). Unusual levels of chemical pollutants found in fish and seafood around the Marshall Islands have led the Marshallese authorities to turn to the IAEA for assistance ... For the moment, a fishing prohibition is applied in polluted harbours ... Located between Hawaii and Australia, the remote country is spread across 29 coral atolls - rings of land that surround lagoons ... (noodl. 33920945) ....

NASA Sees a Redeveloped Tropical Depression Bonnie Over North Carolina (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. Goddard Space Flight Center). NASA Sees Winston Winding Down Near Norfolk Island. The once Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston was winding down when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over it early on Feb. 25 is it continued weakening in the South Pacific ... Credits ... 25 ... Niue is a large upraised coral atoll island located east of Tonga. Niue is one of the smallest countries that has one of the largest raised coral atolls on Earth....

Fishermen demand firm stance on Okinotori atoll

Edit Taipei Times 01 Jun 2016
Fishermen from Hualien County, accompanied by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus, yesterday demanded the government take a firm stance on the issue of fishermen’s rights in disputed waters near the Okinotori atoll, with KMT Legislator Hsu Chen-wei (徐榛蔚) from Hualien applauding Minister of the Interior Yeh Jiunn-rong (葉俊榮) for calling the atoll a reef during a question-and-answer session at the legislature on Monday....

Fallen World War II Marine buried at Arlington National Cemetery

Edit Stars and Stripes 01 Jun 2016
ARLINGTON, Va. (Tribune News Service) — He was killed in action more than 72 years ago, but it took until Tuesday for Marine Pfc ... Johnson, 19, was among the first casualties in a November 1943 amphibious landing on the island of Bieto at the southern end of the Japanese-held Tarawa atoll in the central Pacific Ocean. Marines took the heavily fortified atoll in a fierce 76-hour battle ... Noah’s group has made 30 trips to the Tarawa Atoll ... ....

Introducing Four Seasons Private Island Maldives at Voavah, Baa Atoll

Edit PR Newswire 01 Jun 2016
Off limits to everyone; limitless to you TORONTO, June 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world's leading luxury hospitality company, today announced Four Seasons Private Island Maldives at Voavah, Baa Atoll, the first private island in the company's ... ....

An Island to Call Your Own: Introducing Four Seasons Private Island Maldives at Voavah, Baa Atoll (Four Seasons Hotels Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, the world's leading luxury hospitality company, today announced Four Seasons Private Island Maldives at Voavah, Baa Atoll, the first private island in the company's portfolio and the world's only exclusive-use UNESCO hideaway located in a World Biosphere Reserve ... of the Atoll's UNESCO Biosphere designation....

Hung lauds obstruction of legislature

Edit Taipei Times 01 Jun 2016
... sign an affidavit pledging not to allow imports of US pork containing ractopamine or products manufactured in five Japanese prefectures affected by the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant disaster in March 2011, as well as to safeguard the rights of Taiwanese fishermen operating in disputed waters near the Okinotori atoll in the Pacific Ocean....

27 nations set to join RIMPAC exercise in Hawaii, California

Edit Stars and Stripes 01 Jun 2016
Four nations will join this summer’s Rim of the Pacific drills in Hawaii, increasing the number of countries participating in the world’s largest international maritime exercise to 27 ... 4, the Navy said Tuesday ... This year’s U.S ... Some in Congress have called for China to be disinvited to RIMPAC, citing the country’s expansionist actions in the South China Sea, where it has enlarged small atolls through sand dredging ... Last month, U.S. Rep ... ....

Cabinet says it will protect food safety and fishermen

Edit Taipei Times 01 Jun 2016
The Executive Yuan yesterday responded at a news conference to the three demands listed by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus during its protest at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei on Tuesday. for the Cabinet to reject ractopamine-laced US pork, to reject Japanese food products from radiation-affected regions and to protect fishermen’s rights in the disputed waters near the Okinotori atoll ... ....

Coral bleaching spreads to Maldives, devastating spectacular reefs

Edit The Guardian 01 Jun 2016
Exclusive. Images from the Indian Ocean archipelago reveal the extent of the longest global coral bleaching event in history. @MikeySlezak. email ... Photographed by the XL Catlin Seaview Survey, the images captured the event in May as it moved beyond the now devastated Great Barrier Reef and into waters further west ... Related ... The Maldives is series of coral atolls, built from the remains of coral ... Related. Great Barrier Reef ... ....

27 nations set to join RIMPAC exercise in Hawaii, California this summer

Edit Stars and Stripes 01 Jun 2016
Four nations will join this summer’s Rim of the Pacific naval exercise in Hawaii for the first time, increasing the total of countries participating to 27 ... 4, the Navy said Tuesday ... Other nations participating this year in the U.S ... Vice Adm ... Gen ... Some in Congress had been calling for China to be disinvited to RIMPAC, citing the country’s expansionist actions in the South China Sea, where it has enlarged small atolls through sand dredging....

NASA Watching Slow-Moving Post-Tropical Cyclone Bonnie's Remnants (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
(Source. Goddard Space Flight Center). NASA Sees Winston Winding Down Near Norfolk Island. The once Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Winston was winding down when NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over it early on Feb. 25 is it continued weakening in the South Pacific ... Credits ... 25 ... Niue is a large upraised coral atoll island located east of Tonga. Niue is one of the smallest countries that has one of the largest raised coral atolls on Earth....
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