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The archipelago of Palau is composed of some 700 islands
(SSFC, 3/1/15, p.L4)
35Mil BC A volcanic
range of Pacific islands east of the Philippines was pushed up about
this time and came to form the archipelago of Palau.
(SSFC, 3/1/15, p.L4)
2500 BC Mariners believed to be from Indonesia and
Malaysia set up shop among the islands of Palau about this time.
(SSFC, 3/1/15, p.L4)
161 At Badrulchau, Babeldoab,
Palau, a field of 37 stone monoliths each weighing up to 5 tons was
created about this time.
(SSFC, 3/1/15, p.L4)(http://tinyurl.com/o9hzey3)
1944 Mar 30, The U.S. fleet
attacked Palau, near the Philippines.
(HN, 3/30/98)
1971 Australia joined with New
Zealand and 14 independent of self-governing island nations to form
the South Pacific Forum. The name was changed in 2000 to Pacific
Islands Forum. Member states include: Australia, the Cook Islands,
the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, the Marshall
Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa,
the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. Since 2006,
associate members territories are New Caledonia and French
Polynesia.
(Econ, 10/20/07,
p.61)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Forum)
1994 May 25, Palau became an
independent nation.
(www.touristspots.org/badrulchau-in-babeldaob-palau/)
2007 Aug 7, Administers in
Vienna said that the mid-Pacific nation of Palau has ratified the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, bringing to 139 the number of
countries that have fully endorsed the pact. The treaty, which bans
all nuclear explosions, will not enter into force until it has been
ratified by 44 states listed in an annex that participated in a 1996
disarmament conference and have nuclear power or research reactors.
Only 34 of the 44 countries have both signed and ratified the pact.
The holdouts are China, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran,
Israel, Pakistan, North Korea and the United States.
(AP, 8/7/07)
2009 Jun 10, Palau agreed to
accept 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at
Guantanamo Bay. President Johnson Toribiong said the decision of
Palau, one of a handful of countries that does not recognize China
and maintains diplomatic relations with Taiwan, was "a humanitarian
gesture" intended to help the detainees restart their lives.
(AP, 6/10/09)
2009 Sep 9, Lawyers said 3
Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay formally accepted an
offer to take up new lives in the Pacific island nation of Palau and
could be moved there as early as next month.
(AP, 9/10/09)
2009 Sep 25, Palau announced to
the UN General Assembly that it is creating a shark and ray
sanctuary over some 240,000 square miles around its coastline. Palau
had just one boat to patrol the protected waters. Some 20,000 people
populated the 190-square mile archipelago.
(SFC, 9/25/09, p.A6)
2009 Nov 1, In Palau 6 Chinese
Muslims, ethnic Uighers, newly released from Guantanamo Bay, traded
life behind bars for rooms with ocean view in the tiny Pacific
nation, which agreed to a US request to resettle them.
(AP, 11/1/09)
2014 Jan 13, Japan said it has
signed an agreement with Palau to allow Japanese companies to earn
carbon credits by helping the small Pacific island cut greenhouse
gas emissions.
(Reuters, 1/14/14)
2014 Palau’s Pres. Tommy
Remengesau proposed a complete ban on commercial fishing turning
600,000 square kms of its Exclusive Economic Zone into a marine
reserve until world leaders implement programs to reverse
devastations to its oceans and seas.
(Econ, 7/6/14, p.46)
2014 Palau with a population
was about 20,000 had a GDP of about $246 million. Its 16 states
spread across 250 islands.
(Econ, 7/6/14, p.46)
2015 Jan 21, British technology
firm Satellite Applications Catapult launched a new satellite
tracking system aiming to crack down on the industrial-scale theft
known as "pirate fishing." Experts will be able to watch satellite
feeds of the waters around Easter Island, a Chilean territory in the
southeastern Pacific Ocean, and the western Pacific island nation of
Palau.
(Reuters, 1/21/15)
2015 The population of the
Palau archipelago numbered about 21,000.
(SSFC, 3/1/15, p.L4)
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