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The tragic shooting deaths in Neosho Missouri have sparked coverage of the plight of Micronesians in the United States.

The Far Outliers blog has a great entry looking at success stories of Micronesian immigrants in the United States.

A new Congressional Research Service highlights the role of Micronesia and other Pacific Islands in the United State’s global security strategy. Excellent summary at Yokwe.net:

The Freely Associated States (FAS), together with Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, have been regarded as a security border of the United States, the defense of which is considered to be key to maintaining vital sea lanes. In addition to being home to the Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the FAS are located strategically between Hawaii and Guam.

According to some military experts, the FAS provide a vast buffer zone for Guam, which serves as the “forward military bridgehead” from which to launch U.S. operations along the Asia-Pacific security arc stretching from South Korea and Japan, through Thailand and the Philippines, to Australia. The U.S. military is building up forces on Guam to help maintain deterrence and respond to possible security threats in the Pacific.


The Habele Outer Island Education Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit serving the educational needs and aspirations of under-resourced schools and students in the Outer Islands of Micronesia. Visit Habele.org to learn more.
August 20, 2007 No comments
There is an interesting review in The Economist of Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion. The piece explains how Collier argues

[A]id from the guilt-ridden West is not the answer, or at least not the main answer, and certainly not aid as it has so often been disbursed. For sure, aid has not been useless. “A reasonable estimate is that over the past thirty years [aid] has added one percentage point to the annual growth rate of the bottom billion,” he writes. “Aid has been a holding operation preventing things from falling apart.”

Also in the news, Habele’s announcement of it’s 2007-08 scholarships has been reported by the Saipan Tribune and Pacific Magizne as well as Olekoi.com and PalmettoScoop.com.

Australia appoints a new Ambassador to Micronesia, Palau, and the Marshalls.

Governor Anefal visits Yap Outer Islands.

Chuuk State in Micronesia continues to struggle with drought.

Though our scholarship checks are still enroute to Bethania High School in Palau, Habele volunteers continue assembling book and material donations for our public school support programs. Visit Habele.org to learn about how you can help.
August 07, 2007 No comments
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