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The archipelago of Palau is composed of some 700 islands
   (SSFC, 3/1/15, p.L4)
35Mil BCÂ Â Â 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 BCÂ Â Â 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)
161Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
1944Â Â Â Â Â Â Mar 30, The U.S. fleet
attacked Palau, near the Philippines.
   (HN, 3/30/98)
1971Â Â Â Â Â Â 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. In 2011 Guam, the Northern Marianas and American Samoa
became associate members.
   (Econ, 10/20/07,
p.61)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Islands_Forum)(Econ.,
2/13/21, p.41)
1994Â Â Â Â Â Â May 25, Palau became an
independent nation.
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(www.touristspots.org/badrulchau-in-babeldaob-palau/)
2007Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2009Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2014Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â 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)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, The tiny Pacific
nation of Palau, fighting a rising tide of illegal fishing in its
waters, set fire to four boats belonging to Vietnamese caught
poaching sea cucumbers and other marine life in its waters.
   (AP, 6/12/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â Oct 28, The tiny Pacific
island nation of Palau created a vast marine sanctuary the size of
Spain, banning fishing across the bulk of its waters to preserve the
ocean for future generations.
   (AFP, 10/28/15)
2015Â Â Â Â Â Â The population of the
Palau archipelago numbered about 21,000.
   (SSFC, 3/1/15, p.L4)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â Dec 5, The European Union
put 17 non-EU countries on a blacklist of those it deems guilty of
unfairly offering tax avoidance schemes. They Included: American
Samoa, Bahrain, Barbados, Grenada, Guam, South Korea, Macau,
Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Namibia, Palau, Panama, St. Lucia,
Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia and United Arab Emirates. Over
40 more were put on a "grey list" to be monitored until they are
fully committed to reforms.
   (AP, 12/5/17)
2017Â Â Â Â Â Â China effectively banned
tour groups to the tropical archipelago of Palau, branding it an
illegal destination due to its lack of diplomatic status. Palau
remained one of Taipei's 18 remaining allies and stood under
pressure to switch allegiances. Prior to the ban, Chinese tourists
accounted for about half the visitors to Palau.
   (Reuters, 8/19/18)
2019Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, It was reported
that the Pacific nation of Palau has amended plans to create a huge
marine reserve so Japanese fishing boats still have partial access
to its waters.
   (AFP, 6/17/19)
2020Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, Palau Pres. Tommy
Remengesau said that his country of 20,000 people had not had a
single case of the coronavirus and he was going to shut it off from
the outside world to keep the virus out.
   (Reuters, 4/18/20)
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