Pacific Tribune

Archive for February, 2009

News from the University of Hawaii 10-Campus System
The Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal will a hold a symposium examining indigenous women’s rights, featuring experts from around the Pacific region. The symposium will take place on Thursday, March 12, from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the UHM William S. Richardson School of Law, Moot Court Room, 2515 Dole Street.

The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments and a light lunch will be served.

The Pacific region has a longstanding history of discrimination against indigenous persons and women. Influenced by cultural mores and colonization, economic and political developments have contributed to this situation.

Speakers will include:

Professor Ani Mikaere of Te Wananga-o-Ruakawa New Zealand, an expert on Maori women’s rights who will be delivering the keynote address.
Professor Rebecca Tsosie, the Director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University Law School.
Dr. Aileen Moreton-Robinson, a Professor of Indigenous Studies at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia.
Professor Kapua`ala Sproat, a professor with the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law.
Dr. Kate Zhou of UHM, an expert on ethnic minority women in China.
Dr. Davianna McGregor of UHM, an expert in Hawaii and Pacific indigenous women’s rights.

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Audit hints at graft in some areas
About 500 of the more than 34,000 officials whose accounts were audited last year were suspected to be corrupt and referred to prosecution agencies for further investigation.

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2,500 languages face extinction: UNESCO
PARIS – The world has lost Manx in the Isle of Man, Ubykh in Turkey and last year Alaska’s last native speaker of Eyak, Marie Smith Jones, died, taking the aboriginal language with her.

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(3rd update) Sri Lankan peace worker abducted in Basilan | ABS-CBN News Online Beta
Police said 36-year-old Jaalil Umar was forcibly taken by at least nine gunmen from a non-government organization’s (NGO) office-cum-residence in Barangay Maloong, Lamitan City around 2:30 a.m.

FYI:

Lamitan is a municipality (Filipino: Bayan ng Lamitan) in the province of Basilan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 58,709 people in 11,586 households.

The town is bounded on the east by the municipality of Tuburan, on the south by Tipo-Tipo, on the west by Isabela City and on the north by Basilan Strait.

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Zakaria: The Canadian Solution | Newsweek Voices – Fareed Zakaria | Newsweek.com

Guess which country, alone in the industrialized world, has not faced a single bank failure, calls for bailouts or government intervention in the financial or mortgage sectors. Yup, it’s Canada. In 2008, the World Economic Forum ranked Canada’s banking system the healthiest in the world. America’s ranked 40th

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Jay Shidler: ‘We think it’s a good time to buy’ locally – Pacific Business News Honolulu:

Is Hawaii a good place to invest in this market?

We’re investing in this market. These last two months we’ve probably made offers on almost $100 million [of property]. The point is, we think it’s a good time to buy, but we’re really trying to make our investment in reaction to where we think the market’s going to be and the mitigants we can bring to that.

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Toyota expects $5 billion loss – Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

Toyota Motor Corp. said Friday it expects to post an even greater net loss for the current fiscal year — its first full-year loss since 1950.

Blaming world-market conditions, Toyota said Friday it expects to lose 450 billion yen or $5 billion in the current fiscal year — ending in March.

Revenue for the third quarter declined slightly more than 28 percent. The company saw the most decline in vehicle sales in North America and Europe.

Toyota’s North American sales declined by 235,000 vehicles, and it saw 73,000 fewer vehicle sales in Europe.

Toyota has been cutting production and revising its sales figures downward during the past several months, as the recession and credit crunch drove customers away.

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Azzaman in English

Japan has spent $1.5 billion on small and medium-sized projects mainly in southern Iraq and will donate an additional $3.5 billion to execute major projects, the Japanese ambassador in Baghdad said. Meeting local press editors, the ambassador, Shoji Ogawa, said his country has signed a pact with the Iraqi government under which Japanese firms will supervise the implementation of more projects in the country.

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Raging wildfires kill at least 14 in Australia

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