His 11 million customers are in places like Jamaica, Haiti, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
This produced a list of the usual suspects: Switzerland, Malaysia (Labuan), Barbados, Bahamas, Vanuatu, Belize, Brunei, Dominica, Samoa, Seychelles, St.
When a tsunami struck Vanuatu in 1999, only five people died in it.
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Instability has also afflicted Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands, where riots followed an election last year.
The island of Gaua, part of Vanuatu in the Pacific, is just 13 miles across, yet it has five distinct native languages.
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Chinese soft loans to Tonga, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands and, more controversially, to the military regime in Fiji, have raised American eyebrows.
But no time to dwell on the king--O'Brien has to fly to three more countries today, and his next meeting is in Vanuatu, 3, 200 miles away.
Delegates represented indigenous people from Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Palau, Kiribati, Tokelau, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Niue, Cook Islands, Hawai'i, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, and Samoa.
But since taking office last December, Australia's new Labor government has announced a seasonal labour scheme for the fruit-picking industry, to be open to PNG, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tonga.
Youth participants currently confirmed are from Pacific Island communities including Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, New Zealand, Niue, American Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau and Vanuatu.
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For instance, after the Papua New Guinea tsunami, an international team was dispatched to Vanuatu, a group of islands in the Pacific, where they showed videos of tsunamis to the villagers.
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Within Indonesia, the six Suharto offspring have significant equity in at least 564 companies, and their overseas interests include hundreds of other firms, scattered from the U.S. to Uzbekistan, the Netherlands, Nigeria and Vanuatu.
The Vanuatu men of the Pentecost Islands climb a rickety 98-ft. tower, tie vines to their ankles and dive to the ground at speeds exceeding 45 mph as both a harvest ritual and rite of passage to manhood.
Kiribati, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have determined that the focus of their capacity development will be using the Pacific Professional Standards for School Principals (PPSSP) approved at the FEdMM (Forum Education Ministers Meeting) in Port Vila, Vanuatu, earlier this year.
David Thai, a coffee-shop entrepreneur (see article), was born in Saigon to a family that had fled the north after the war to expel the French, left on a boat in 1975 and ended, via the Philippines and Vanuatu, in America.
Each of these five countries, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu have identified through their national education plans and strategies that improving the quality of their teaching workforce is of utmost importance in order to contribute towards increasing student achievement.
If you want to put the industry in the hands of dodgy dealers registered in Tuvalu or Vanuatu, if you want to guarantee websites without protection for children or restraints on compulsive gamblers, if you want to help money laundering and fraud, then prohibition is the policy for you.
In the first phase, the exercise will consist of ten different scenarios to allow each participating country to respond to a regional or local tsunami following a powerful earthquake off the shores of Russia, Ryukyu Islands, west and east of the Philippines, Vanuatu, Tonga, Chile, Ecuador, Central America, and Aleutian Islands.
Eight countries (FSM, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, RMI, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu) have participated in the programme for the last five years and more than 300 teachers and teacher trainers in the Pacific have benefitted from the workshops and it is expected that they in turn will have a positive impact on student achievement.
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