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- U.S. Envoy to Fiji Named
President Reagan has named Carl Dillery to be the United States Ambassador to Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga, Tuvalu and the Republic of Kiribati, the White House announced today. He will replace Fred J. Eckert. Mr. Dillery, a career Foreign Service officer, has previously served in Brussels, London and Nicosia. Since 1982 he has been director of the State Department's Office of United Nations Political Affairs.
- Tuvalu, Distrusted by China, Worried by Sea, Can Join U.N.
Over the objections of China (population 1.2 billion), the Security Council cleared the way today for the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu (population 10,000) to become the 189th member of the United Nations. The General Assembly is expected to admit the new country formally later this year.
- Tiny Tuvalu Profits From Web Name
At the height of the Internet land rush in 1998, an unusual story stood out from the rest: the tiny nation of Tuvalu sold, for $50 million, the rights to its chunk of cyberspace. Tuvalu, a string of islands halfway between Hawaii and Australia with a population of just 10,600, had rarely made world headlines. But the multimillion-dollar sale, to an ambitious Web entrepreneur in Canada, changed all that. The story really began when Tuvalu, along with dozens of other nations and territories, w...
- Compressed Data; For a Tiny Pacific Nation, Its Domain Is Its Treasure
The tiny South Pacific country of Tuvalu, despite being strung with so few phone lines that international callers hear busy signals more often than voices, has buttressed its economy with cash from the Internet. And to celebrate, Tuvalu (pronounced too-vah-LOO) is using a more traditional network: the postal service. The Philatelic Bureau of Tuvalu announced last week that it would issue two stamps to commemorate its business partnership with an American company, the .tv Corporation.
- Games Are Growing
The tiny Pacific island chain of Tuvalu is set to become the newest Olympic member. Montenegro, which was recognized by the committee board this year after splitting from Serbia, is also set to gain formal admittance from the assembly. The centerpiece of the meetings is Wednesday’s selection of the host city for the 2014 Winter Olympics. The three candidates are Salzburg, Austria; Pyeongchang, South Korea; and Sochi, Russia.
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