Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The island nation of Palau, home to just under 18, 000 people living on 500 small islands, has become an out sized player on the ...

April 2026 - From 20 to 24 April 2026, the Republic of Palau hosted an intensive five-day capacity-building week focused on ...

The tourism sector of Palau has introduced Ol’au Palau, a gaming app requiring visitors to perform sustainable tasks. In turn, they will receive the opportunity to have special experiences on the ...

Palau's president told AFP on Monday that Beijing had been "very outspoken" on the need for his country to drop its diplomatic recognition of Taiwan. "China has been very outspoken that we need to ...

Pacific island nations have been hard hit by the soaring price of oil due to the Middle East conflict. Read more at ...

Every coastal nation controls the 244 miles of the ocean that extends from its shores. These “exclusive economic zones” give Pacific island states domain over huge swaths of the sea, with territorial ...

The tiny Pacific nation of Palau reportedly agreed to take up to 75 third-country deportees from the US who don’t have a criminal record — in exchange for a $7.5 million grant to support the roughly ...

PELELIU, Palau—Japan and Palau will undertake one of the largest recoveries of remains of Japanese soldiers killed during World War II. Welfare minister Takamaro Fukuoka met with Ngiraibelas Tmetuchl, ...

Environmental groups in Palau are outraged by a government proposal to shrink the country's marine sanctuary to raise money from commercial fishing. It comes after a Bloomberg report this month ...

Earlier this month, Surangel Whipps Jr., president of Palau, a Pacific island country, visited the US. On August 5, he met with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Austin thanked Whipps for "Palau's ...