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Saipan Awaodori dancers head to Japan for 17th year of cultural exchange

Saipan Awaodori dancers head to Japan for 17th year of cultural exchange

THE Saipan Awaodori dancers are set to depart for Japan on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, to once again join Awaodori performers in various cities, marking the team’s 17th year of participation in the country’s annual summer festivities. The young...

Tinian rules Liberation parade float competition

Tinian rules Liberation parade float competition

WINNING first place and the prize of $5,000 in the annual float competition made the 79th Liberation Day Parade on Friday especially memorable for the Municipality of Tinian. Their float featured a roasting station with a whole cow, statues of...

Immigration arrests in San Francisco region up 77% since Trump took office

Immigration arrests in San Francisco region up 77% since Trump took office

Since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have shot up 77% in Northern California since the last year-plus of Joe Biden’s administration, according to recently released data from ICE. The...

Live: First waves hit Russia, Japan but no tsunami threat for Australia

Live: First waves hit Russia, Japan but no tsunami threat for Australia

1h agoWed 30 Jul 2025 at 3:09am Let's bring you up to speed Good afternoon, and thank you for joining our live coverage of the aftermath of a powerful earthquake off Russia's eastern coast early this morning. Here's what's happened so far: The...

Campaign season for CNMI's 2026 governor’s race kicks off amid economic uncertainty

Campaign season for CNMI's 2026 governor’s race kicks off amid economic uncertainty

Jonathan Blas Attao and Edmund Villgomez Saipan — With 15 months to go before the CNMI’s 2026 general elections, the early campaigning season has begun for the top elected executive position, with familiar figures and new contenders emerging. The...

India women take on Uzbekistan today

India women take on Uzbekistan today

India's under-20 women's team will play two friendlies against Uzbekistan in Tashkent as part of their preparations for the AFC U20 Women's Asian Cup Qualifiers next month in Myanmar Hyderabad: The Indian under-20 women’s team arrived in Tashkent...

Tsunami spares Guam but advisory tests its preparedness

Tsunami spares Guam but advisory tests its preparedness

Tsunami waves from a powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Russia spared Guam but an eight-hour tsunami watch and advisory that was canceled before 7 p.m. Wednesday put the island’s preparedness and general sense of awareness to the test—with heavy...

India U20 Women All Set For First Friendly Against Uzbekistan In Tashkent

India U20 Women All Set For First Friendly Against Uzbekistan In Tashkent

(MENAFN- IANS) New Delhi, July 12 (IANS) The Indian U20 women's team have arrived in Tashkent to play two friendly matches against Uzbekistan U20. The first of them will be played on Sunday at the Do'stlik Stadium. The Young Tigresses, who had...

Tsunami hits Hawaii after massive earthquake off Russia sparks Pacific-wide alerts

Tsunami hits Hawaii after massive earthquake off Russia sparks Pacific-wide alerts

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

OPINION | Rebranding paradise: Saipan deserves a stronger identity

OPINION | Rebranding paradise: Saipan deserves a stronger identity

Steve Jang SAIPAN is beautiful — no doubt about it. But in today’s cutthroat tourism market, beauty isn’t enough. Visitors from Japan, Korea, China, Guam, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan aren’t just chasing beach photos — they want something real....

Trump meets with candidates for four-star general in break with tradition, White House acknowledges

Trump meets with candidates for four-star general in break with tradition, White House acknowledges

Eighty years ago on July 30, 1945, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine, resulting in the deaths of 880 sailors and Marines, making it the Navy's worst disaster at sea. In late March 1945, the Indianapolis was...

Fiji Women seal historic double: U23 World Cup and Commonwealth Games bound

Fiji Women seal historic double: U23 World Cup and Commonwealth Games bound

KOROR (Palau) - Fiji's women's 3x3 team have etched their names into history, clinching direct qualification to both the FIBA 3x3 U23 World Cup and the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games after being crowned champions of the Pacific Mini Games in...

PSS receives two national recognitions for innovation in digital learning, AI integration

PSS receives two national recognitions for innovation in digital learning, AI integration

THE Public School System has earned two national recognitions for its innovation in digital learning and artificial intelligence integration through its education technology program, run by the federally funded Instructional Technology and...

STEM research program opens to Saipan high school students

STEM research program opens to Saipan high school students

THE PSS CLDS TEAMS Program is excited to announce that the application for students is now available. Project Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Twice-Exceptional Students Achieving and Matriculating in Science, Technology, Engineering, and...

Column: On an August anniversary, memories of the atomic bomb from a crew member who dropped it on Nagasaki

Column: On an August anniversary, memories of the atomic bomb from a crew member who dropped it on Nagasaki

I was sitting with an old soldier named Ray Gallagher. He held in his hands a small doll. The doll’s name was Marianne and it was the doll that he took with him to war. It had been given to him by his niece, Margaret Gillund, and on Aug. 9, 1945,...

Guam’s Jordan Baden wins gold, shatters women’s 5K record at Mini Games

Guam’s Jordan Baden wins gold, shatters women’s 5K record at Mini Games

With only three days remaining in the 12th Pacific Mini Games in Koror, Palau, Guam's mighty contingent earned five medals in athletics, baseball and judo. Two days ago, Guam's Jordan Baden won her first-ever medal while representing her island...

EUCON announces first indigenous bachelor’s scholarship recipient: Angeline Orsini

EUCON announces first indigenous bachelor’s scholarship recipient: Angeline Orsini

Angeline Orsini, left, with Dr. Christian Wei, EUCON International University president. EUCON photo IN a defining moment for the Northern Mariana Islands’ journey toward community rebuilding and educational revival, EUCON International University...

Gov. Palacios: the CNMI’s last best hope?

Gov. Palacios: the CNMI’s last best hope?

The author, Col. Grant Newsham, right, with CNMI Gov. Arnold Palacios I was in awe of Arnold Palacios, who passed away on July 23. Having spent a good part of my career dealing with public and private corruption, I never once saw a top official...

Joint memorial service honors WWII fallen on Saipan

Joint memorial service honors WWII fallen on Saipan

A JOINT Catholic, Buddhist, and Shinto memorial service organized by Kuentai USA was held Monday at the Aqua Resort Club grounds in Achugao. The sixth memorial service honored Japanese and American military personnel who died during World War II...

CNMI-Taiwan dialogue focuses on economic growth and education

CNMI-Taiwan dialogue focuses on economic growth and education

Director General Jerry S. Chang of the Taiwan Economic & Cultural Office of Hawaii and CNMI Sen. Celina R. Babauta in Hawaii. Contributed photo HONOLULU — CNMI Senator Celina Babauta met with Director General Jerry S. Chang of the Taipei Economic...

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