Micronesian kingfisher study reveals interesting life POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – Divorce, house wrecking, flirtation, and raising the kids – sounds like a television soap opera. Well, it’s is just part of what two scientists have discovered about the Micronesian Kingfisher, locally called the…

Plant and animal quarantine regs sent to governors, legislatures POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – FSM President Leo A. Falcam has transmitted sets of the newly revised FSM plant and animal quarantine regulations and quarantine awareness leaflets to the Congress Speaker Jack Fritz, the four…

FSM ambassador to Fiji called home POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The Federated States of Micronesia is calling home its ambassador to Fiji for consultation. This comes after the recent coup and the selection of an interim government in that South Pacific island nation….

US INS makes it faster for FSM citizens to work in US POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The United States Department of Immigration and Naturalization Service has made it easier for Micronesians and other Free Association States citizens to get employment authorization documents, commonly…

FSM Election Director prepares for national Congress, ConCon elections POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The FSM national election director has returned from a four-state visit where he met with state election commissioners in preparation for the upcoming FSM congressional general election and the constitutional…

FSM Appellate Court issues opinion in the FSM’s most important case POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The FSM Supreme Court, Appellate Division, on June 30, ruled in favor of the FSM government, thus supporting the trial court opinion that the States are not the…

FSM reacts strongly to GAO testimony POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – The Federated States of Micronesia has issued a statement expressing shock at the testimony by the U.S. General Accounting Office during a recent hearing before a U.S. Congressional subcommittee. The hearing chaired by…

Saipan Food Poisoning POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): July 2000 – Cholera was not the cause of the food poisoning episode that affected 100 people in Saipan two weeks ago, according to a Commonwealth of Northern Marianas Islands government official. In a memo dated June 30 to…

Banking Board report shows banks have excess lending capacity POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): June 2000 – The balance sheet of the FSM commercial banking system increased $1.6 million, or 1.1 percent, in the first quarter of calendar year 2000, due to an increase in foreign assets…

FSM Supreme Court issues injunction POHNPEI, Palikir (FSM Information Service): June 2000 – A FSM Supreme Court decision has ordered the FSM, and the FSM Department of Finance and Administration to stop disbursing any unobligated funds appropriated for Chuuk Election District number 4 that remain under Public…