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There are a lot of areas that need to be addressed -- not just for us as Pacific Islanders, but for any emerging nation, there's a huge disparity in terms of the way that funds are being distributed.

Daniel Leo

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The worst dioxin-contaminated site in Vietnam is Bien Hoa airbase, which is 30 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City, after President Nixon ordered the U.S. military to stop spraying Agent Orange in 1970, this is the site where all the Agent Orange barrels remaining in Vietnam were collected. The barrels were processed and shipped to Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, where they were incinerated at sea in 1977.

Ken Olson

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This campaign will only slow Huawei's business growth in some countries in European and Asia Pacific markets, but I don't think it's going to retreat from any market at all in the foreseeable future.

Charlie Dai

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The issue of water availability (or the lack of it) has often been mentioned by researchers who work on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, when we started to examine the details of the hydrology, we began to notice that freshwater access and statue location were tightly linked together. It wasnt obvious when walking around--with the water emerging at the coast during low tide, one doesnt necessarily see obvious indications of water. File photo - Statues at Anakena Beach, Easter Island, Chile. (Photo by Eric LAFFORGUE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Places without ahu/moai showed no freshwater, he added. The pattern was striking and surprising in how consistent it was. Researchers had already identified groundwater discharge in coastal areas as a key factor in the statues placement on Easter Islands coast. In the latest stage of the research, experts examined how the availability of freshwater in certain areas was linked to the methods and means of building the statues. EASTER ISLANDS ANCIENT CIVILIZATION WAS NOT DESTROYED BY WARFARE, EXPERTS SAY Around 900 statues, or moai, are dotted around Easter Island. Circa 1955: Two ancient statues of uncertain origin on Easter Island, in the South Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Richard Harrington/Three Lions/Getty Images).

Carl Lipo

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

How is it going to work out ? I haven't heard a plan, this is the 13th week with no orders out of the Pacific Northwest and you know you want to be patriotic and you want to do the right thing but you wonder, why am I suffering so that Apple can grow bigger, so that tech can get the advantage of what we're doing.

The President

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Warmer oceans are allowing eastern Pacific storms to reach higher latitudes.

Gene Norman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Part of what we do is integrate with The Navy. The Naval threat for The Pacific is one of the major threats, so The Army is doing multi-domain battle. The Pacific is inherently The Pacific. There is very little that we do that is not done with other services.

John Ferrari

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

US bases in Japan are in range of a growing number of Chinese MRBMs and LACMs. H-6K bomber flights into the Western Pacific Ocean demonstrate China’s ability to range Guam with air-launched LACMs. The DF-26, which debuted publicly in 2015 and was paraded again in 2017, is capable of conducting precision conventional or nuclear strikes against ground targets that could include U.S. bases on Guam.

The Pentagon report

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I was stunned when I read this this morning, california does NOT divert water to Pacific Ocean. Ridiculous.

Henri Grissino-Mayer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Overall we see a good demand environment across the U.S. Europe and Asia Pacific, in terms of sector demand we see strength in energy, utilities, retail, insurance and manufacturing.

Chief Executive Salil Parekh

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

If the characterization of the site proves to be excellent, one could consider how a full-scale neutrino observatory might be deployed on a relatively fast timescale thanks to the existing deep-water infrastructure, a neutrino detector array operated in the Pacific would ideally complement IceCube and its second generation at South Pole.

Elisa Resconi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We spend billions of dollars a year on foreign aid and this is a very practical way of investing in the future economic growth of our neighbors in the Pacific.

Malcolm Turnbull

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This decision strengthens the coalition government's Pacific reset by providing a maritime patrol capability with the significant range and endurance needed to assist our partners in the region.

Ron Mark

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) has sent 30 staff with equipment to help penetrate the cave walls.

Prawit Wongsuwan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Things that get to 30,000 feet, or even close to that, would start affecting trans-Pacific flights.

Jeff Freymueller

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

When you look at the problem of getting from Point A to Point B anywhere in the world, the question is how fast do you want to go and how fast is fast enough? supersonic isn’t really fast enough to go overseas and back in one day. For the business traveler or the military, where time is really important, that’s an interesting point. Mach 5 is where you can do that. You can get across the Atlantic in about 2 hours and across the Pacific in about 3 hours.

Kevin Bowcutt

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We will detail for our shareholders the enormous opportunity for Xerox to sell products directly into the growing Asia-Pacific market with sole and exclusive use of the valuable Xerox name, and a more efficient, better managed supply chain than exists with Fuji Xerox today.

Fuji Xerox

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There was a feeling they would have given it a lot more attention if the victims had been white society women from Pacific Heights, baloney.

Randy Alfred

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Whether our families crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we're only here because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, how our last names sound, or the way we worship.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Make no mistake : America is in the Indo-Pacific to stay, this is our priority theater.

Defense James Mattis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

We are also going to confront what we believe is out of step with international law, out of step with international tribunals that have spoken on the issue, and part of this is we maintain a very transparent military activity out in the Pacific.

James Mattis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

A geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order is taking place in the Indo-Pacific, great power competition is back and I believe we're approaching an inflection point in history.... Freedom and justice hang in the balance.

Harry Harris

Found on CNN
6 years ago

In recognition of the increasing connectivity of the Indian and Pacific Oceans today we rename the US Pacific Command to Indian Oceans.The US Indo-Pacific Command, south China is South China, South China's standing watch and intimately engaged with over half of the earth's surface and South China diverse populations, from Hollywood, to Bollywood, from polar bears to penguins.

Defense James Mattis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

What's important is to preserve a rules-based development in the region, especially the Indo-Pacific region and to preserve the necessary balances.

Emmanuel Macron

Found on CNN
6 years ago

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