Único destino, la migración: Kiribati, leyenda diluviana del siglo XXI.
(Segunda de dos partes) De sus 33 islas de coral y atolones y una isla volcánica (Banaba) que conforman Kiribati, sólo 20 están ocupadas de forma permanente por isleños (97.7 por ciento), mestizos (1.5 por ciento) y europeos (0.2 por ciento), gente sencilla, humilde e ingeniosa que...

Será engullido por el mar: Kiribati, leyenda diluviana del siglo XXI.
(Primera de dos partes) Kiribati está condenado a perecer en las fauces del Océano Pacífico: la imagen diluviana de un archipiélago tragado por el mar en pleno siglo XXI silenció al mundo. Hace unas semanas, el presidente de ese conjunto de islas, Anote Tong, reactivó...

Tuvalu: drowning or waving: the low-lying islands of the Pacific nation of have long been seen as the most likely first victims of global climate change. And already, several islands are experiencing regular episodes of flooding. But is there any truth behind the headline stories of an imminent exodus?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the back of his house in Funafuti, the capital of Tuvalu, Manoa Tehulu is husking coconuts. One after the other, he methodically splits their tough coats on a metal spike embedded in the ground then strips away the thick chunks of fibrous husk. There's...

Curious customs.
Hey, guys! I'm Melinda. I found some funny stuff about New Year s to share with you. Someday I want to go see these things for myself. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] In London, England, when the huge city clock Big Ben chimes on New Year's Eve, homeowners...

FIBA Asia-Oceania merger perils RP bid.
The country's bid to earn an Olympic spot in the 2012 London Games will become tougher if plans by the world governing body for basketball (FIBA) to unite the qualifying tournaments for Asia and Oceania push through. If the merger happens, the Philippines faces the daunting task...

By Former President Fidel V. Ramos.
OUR two recent columns on Guam underscored the anxieties of Americans, the Guamanians included, over the deepening economic recession. Nevertheless, the people of Guam - being among the more progressive and modernized Pacific Islanders as the Hawaiians - but different from the islanders of the independent but less developed...

Tiny atoll in Pacific cries out for help.
Byline: Suchit Nair WELLINGTON/CHRISTCHURCH: World Environment Day may have been celebrated across the planet with some fanfare and lots of tree planting on Thursday but it was put in perspective by Anote Tong, president of the small Pacific Ocean nation of Kiribati comprising 32 atolls, when he...

National Day of the Marshall Islands.
The Marshall Islands is a Micronesian island nation in the western Pacific Ocean, located north of Nauru and Kiribati, east of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the United States territory of Wake Island, to which it lays claim. Although the islands were settled by...

Aquatic identities, fluid economies: water affinities and authenticating narratives of belonging in East Timorese myth and ritual.
The recent spate of anthropological attention to water is a timely reminder not only of its salience in cultural representations of place and identity among many indigenous and local communities (Donahue and Rose 1998), but also of its likely prominence in future 'water wars' (Raines-Ward 2002; Shiva 2002). While...