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Yokwe all,
For a little financial perspective on the RMI...
[url]http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aWW3sovg2ySI&refer=asia[/url]
[Link goes to whole article. - Excerpt below.]
Michael Jordan Jostles for Taiwan Room on Nike Tour
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Jordan, who's scheduled to swing through Asia this month on a promotional tour sponsored by Nike Inc., is competing for a hotel room with the presidents of 15 countries on the Taiwan leg of his trip.....
....Jordan is worth about $400 million, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported on its Web site. That's about four times greater than the 2002 gross domestic product for the Marshall Islands, a cluster of islands in the Pacific. Its president, Kessai H. Note, is attending the inauguration.
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Other news on topic:
[url]http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/detail.asp?onNews=1&GRP=D&id=23966[/url]
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For those who don't know, the RMI is one of the (few) key and vocal supporters of Taiwan's right to exist as a country distinct from Mainland China.
The Republic of China (Taiwan) assists the RMI with a number of infrastructure oriented aid programs.
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On a completely different note...
For those of you in Hawaii, there is the Outrigger construction festival, which has Marshallese participants.
May 15-30, 2004
[url]http://www.mauinews.com/community/story/059202004_com02Cnaoe0509.asp[/url]
[url]http://www.MauiCanoeFest.com[/url]
[Sorry if some of the URLs/links are too long, and don't work.]
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David Huskins
Survey of Marshallese Nutrition Choices:
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Health/Nutrition.html[/url]
Majuro, Marshall Islands, Images and Resources:
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Majuro.html[/url]
New images of Majuro, urban and rural
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Silk/[/url]
Ken Butterfield's W.W.II. experiences on and above Majuro
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Butterfield/[/url]
Historic (late W.W.II.) photos of Kwajalein
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Oldpix/Kwaj1.html[/url]
My roster of RMI satellite images (hosted by NASA)
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/NASA/Satellite-Images-RMI.html[/url]
Examples of Marshallese woven crafts
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Marshallese_crafts.html[/url]
Laura and Woja, Majuro - the capital of the Republic of the Marshall
Islands (RMI), in the Central Pacific.
[url]http://www3.uakron.edu/majuro/Laura-Majuro.html[/url]
[Photo Courtesy of Marie Maddison, RMI]
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