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A glimpse into the 2025 Pacific Mini Games - voices of athletes in Palau
RNZ
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July 3, 2025
2025 Palau Mini Games enters its fifth day of competition on Friday. Photo: Facebook / Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games The 2025 Pacific Mini Games has been a colourful affair so far, bringing together 23 Pacific nations to compete in a variety of...
John Tafi Wins 3 Gold Medals for Samoa at Palau
Samoa Global News
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July 3, 2025
John Tafi wins 3 GOLD MEDALS in the Men’s 71kg at the Palau Pacific Mini Games 2025. Samoa’s Golden Boy also set 3 New Oceania records and 3 New Pacific Games records. The Samoa Weightlifting Federation acknowledged NBS – National Bank of Samoa...
Arne Jensen claims Tonga’s second gold at Palau Mini Games
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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July 3, 2025
Hans Arne Jensen wins gold in Men’s Recurve Matchplay, securing Tonga’s second gold medal at the 2025 Palau Mini Games. Tonga’s archery team delivered a standout performance in Palau, earning 11 medals across recurve and compound events, according...
FIBA 3x3 Youth Nations League - Oceania Conference 1, Stop 2: Palau Men and Fiji Women Victorious
FIBA Basketball
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KOROR (Palau) - The competition was fierce at Stop 2 of the FIBA 3x3 Youth Nations League – Oceania, Conference 1. Multiple games went to overtime, Vanuatu achieved a major upset victory, two-point shots were raining down, and the home fans had a...
Lance Cpl. Flores Promotes During Koa Moana 2025
DVIDS - Georgia
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July 7, 2025
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jaden Flores, a landing support specialist and Nebraska native with Combat Logistics Battalion 15, Combat Logistics Regiment 17, 1st Marine Logistics Group, promotes to his current rank during Koa Moana 25 in Palau,...
Guam’s Chloe Santos tops ‘unbeatable senior’ for weightlifting gold at Palau Mini Games
The Guam Daily Post
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Chloe Santos, 23, entered the 12th Pacific Games in Koror, Palau, confidently and eagerly, prepared to show her island and the region how much she had improved since past competitions. And she did. On Wednesday, while competing in the women’s...
Team Guam athletics ready to run in Palau Mini Games
The Guam Daily Post
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With the 12th Pacific Mini Games underway in Koror, Palau, Team Guam’s athletics contingent will begin its medal quest on Friday. Ahead of the competition, which has attracted more than 1,500 athletes from 24 nations, Guam’s athletics team had one...
Palau, Japan, Taiwan partner to develop pollution-free salt industry, wellness tourism
Island Times
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July 1, 2025
MELEKEOK, Palau (June 26, 2025) — A delegation of Japanese and Taiwanese entrepreneurs is partnering with Palau to develop a pollution-free salt industry and promote sustainable wellness tourism, following the signing of a memorandum of...
Palau Judiciary conducts its first in-country training of all court personnel as part of its commitment to judicial excellence
Island Times
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July 1, 2025
Over the course of three days from June 16-18, 2025, all Judiciary personnel, from justices and judges to staff from all departments, attended its first ever, in-country training, during which time all court operations ceased except for emergency...
Palau Games are on
The National
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IT was a rainy evening in Koror, Palau, as Team PNG athletes and officials marched into the Palau National Stadium on Sunday evening (June 29) for the opening ceremony of the Pacific Mini Games. Twenty-two other countries and territories in the...
Waqa claims silver after years off the platform
FBC News
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July 3, 2025
Poama Waqa A visibly emotional Poama Waqa dedicated his Pacific Mini Games medals to his family and daughter, celebrating a remarkable comeback in the Men’s 71kg weightlifting category. Waqa started strong, claiming silver with an impressive 126kg...
Pacific Mini Games in Palau, 2025
Fijivillage
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Our first two gold medalists, Samuel Yalimaiwai and Kelera Mudunasoko Photos: Team Fiji Team Fiji secured two gold medals at the Pacific Mini Games in Palau last night, with standout performances from Samuel Yalimaiwai in the Men’s 50 metres...
Niue not at 2025 Pacific Mini Games due to travel costs to Palau
RNZ
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July 2, 2025
The 2025 Pacific Mini Games set to officially open on Sunday. Photo: Facebook / Pacific Mini Games Palau 2025 Team Niue is not competing at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Palau. Both the Niue Island Sports and Commonwealth Games Association and...
Tahiti's golden run continues at Palau Mini Games
RNZ
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July 2, 2025
PNG’s weightlifting queen, Dika Toua, has claimed 2 Gold and 1 Silver in the Women’s 53kg category on 2 July. Photo: Team PNG Facebook The Tahitians have opened a wider gap between themselves and the rest of the pack on the medal table at the...
First gold for Tonga at Palau Mini Games
Talanoa 'O Tonga
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July 2, 2025
Tonga has secured four medals, including a gold, in archery at the 2025 Palau Mini Games. Hans Arne Jensen won Tonga’s first gold medal in the men’s recurve double 720 round (70m), lifting Tonga to 11th on the overall medal tally. He becomes...
Palau Mini Games: Team Fiji will be participating in basketball, baseball, swimming, and Va’a today
Fijivillage
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Palau Mini Games: Team Fiji will be participating in basketball, baseball, swimming, and Va’a today As day one of the Palau Mini Games kicks off today, Team Fiji will be represented in Swimming, Basketball, Baseball, and Va’a. Competing in the 400...
Republic of Palau Hosts a WCO National Workshop on HS and Focuses on Strengthening Tariff Classification Work
World Customs Organization
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A National Workshop on the Harmonized System (HS) was held in Koror, Palau, from 9 to 12 June 2025. The Workshop was organized jointly by the WCO and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection of Palau, with the sponsorship of the Customs...
Palau welcomes the Pacific
NBC PNG
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Team PNG Flag Bearers Josh Tarere and Thelma Toua at the opening ceremony of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games with Team PNG Chef De Mission Kinivanagi Karo (left) (Image: Team PNG) In a spectacular opening ceremony of the 2025 Pacific Mini Games last...
PALAU OPENS PACIFIC MINI GAMES IN TRADITIONAL FASHION
GSPN
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June 29, 2025
By Charlotte Oh KOROR, Palau – The highly anticipated opening ceremony officially marked the start of the 12th Pacific Mini Games at the Palau National Track and Field. 23 Nations walked proudly around the track, representing their respective...
Swimmers take Palau waves by storm
The National
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TEAM Papua New Guinea swimmers made a strong start at the 2025 Pacific Mini Games in Koror, Palau, competing in several heats on day 2 of the swimming competition. In the men’s 100m butterfly, Nathaniel Noka clocked a time of 59.72 seconds,...