20 take oath as newest US citizens
For 78-year-old Rosa Borja Flores, obtaining U.S. citizenship after moving from Palau to Saipan at the end of World War II in 1946 or 1947, brings excitement to her life. “I’m elated and very happy,”...
View ArticleElevate ‘We the people…’
Though change occurs daily, unstoppable at every turn, one thing remains powerfully at the base of our lives: culture! It is the sturdy foundation that defines us as a people, our land, sea and...
View ArticleSabalu Market
They look like retired couples, earning supplemental income from home gardens to retirement fund or SS benefit; or they are farmhands who are CWs on island putting in Ag production but dependent on an...
View ArticleCharter flights will help attract tourists to Rota, Tinian
Marianas Visitors Authority marketing manager Bruce Bateman said having charter flights to Rota and Tinian is one of the possible solutions to boost tourist arrivals in both islands. Bateman, speaking...
View ArticleOther issues in paradise
We seem to have used our pug-nose sight to look at issues unsure what to make of them. Either it is treated apathetically and sleepwalked or the elected elite is simply too lazy fulfilling their...
View ArticleSmoking kills
The Kent cigarette for sale at Duty Free has blunt bold letters of “smoking kills” on one side with a sentence on the other side: “Smoking can cause a slow and painful death.” The sale of tobacco is...
View ArticleThe Donald in Ay Yo Way
However you slice it, “experts” were wrong. Media was too eager to project their “bias” that I wonder how much the projections were meant to influence “indifferent” America at the caucus in Iowa. The...
View ArticleXīnniánkuàilè
The title literally means, “Happy New Year!” But the greeting one normally hears in China, mostly from children, say, Gong xi fa cái! Hóng bao ná lái, “Congratulations and be prosperous; now give me a...
View ArticleBordallo: N. Korea rocket launch provocative act
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo issued the following statement on the recent rocket launch by North Korea. “North Korea’s recent launch of a supposed space satellite is nothing...
View ArticleAbe on Valentine’s
Saipan teams with lovers as the Spring Festival vacation in China extends for a week from the 8th. It is a preferred destination for newlyweds. Bedroom duties are not rushed; it comes casually like the...
View ArticleUOG’s James Sellmann published in Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies
Dr. James Sellmann, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Guam, has published a research article entitled, “A Way of Learning: Bridging Ancient Chinese Philosophy...
View ArticleCNMI visitor arrivals level in January
Visitors arrivals to the CNMI were level in January 2016 compared to January 2015. According to the Marianas Visitors Authority, arrivals to the islands of Saipan, Tinian, and Rota registered 46,011...
View ArticleNuku’alofa
CNMI Gov. Ralph DLG Torres justified the trip when he joined heads of State in Fiji and brought CUC folks to look at utilities. Fair enough. That focused us to the Pacific south of the Equator. I...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer and Svetlana Travis
The scion to a real estate magnate in the Bronx was AG, later became the governor of the State of New York until he figured in a prostitution ring scandal that led to his resignation. This month, he...
View ArticlePlaying by the rules
My Chinese stepson returns to China shortly; a tourist who overstayed his visa, I kept him as a tolerated technical “illegal” for as long as my petition for his immigrant status was pending. When it...
View Article‘Woman in fake marriages has $70K in explained income’
Qiong Lu Pua, a woman who was slapped with a 12-month and one day imprisonment for orchestrating two sham marriages so that her brother and friend could obtain green cards, has $70,000 in unexplained...
View Article‘US govt continues to make unsubstantiated claims vs client’
A defense lawyer has asserted that the U.S. government is still making unsubstantiated claims in opposing the continued release of his client, Qiong Lu Pua, a woman who was slapped with a 12-month and...
View ArticleKilili grills Interior secretary on FY’17 budget
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Delegate Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (Ind-MP) got Northern Mariana Islands-specific with Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell yesterday, as the House Natural Resources Committee...
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Bordallo encouraged by new sanctions vs N. Korea
Bordallo WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congresswoman Madeleine Z. Bordallo yesterday issued the following statement in response to the UN Security Council’s unanimous approval of a resolution that imposes new...
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MVA joins Guangdong International Travel Fair
The Marianas Visitors Authority, Tinian Dynasty Holiday, and Best Sunshine International promoted the Northern Mariana Islands at the Guangdong International Travel Fair on Feb. 25-27, 2016, in...
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