Tag: Guam

Obama to delay Australia trip

March 13, 2010 01:39:00

Barack Obama will delay his trip to Australia and there is a possibility he could cancel it altogether.[MORE]

Tags: foreign-affairs, world-politics, australia, guam, indonesia, united-states

US military's Pacific expansion going ahead

Feature

November 1, 2009 16:13:00

The US military plans to relocate thousands of personnel to Guam in the Pacific, increasing its population by 25 per cent.[MORE]

Tags: defence-and-national-security, world-politics, guam, japan, united-states

Cairns eyes Guam cosmetic surgery market

Feature

July 27, 2009 15:50:00

Cairns is set to target US soldiers living in Guam with a lucrative combination of tourism and cosmetic surgery.[MORE]

Tags: hospitality, tourism, medical-procedures, fertility-and-infertility, travel-and-tourism, cairns-4870, guam, pacific

Jetstar fire: passengers return home

June 12, 2009 05:27:00

Passengers on a Jetstar flight that made an emergency landing in Guam yesterday have arrived in Australia. [MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, emergency-incidents, fires, air-transport, australia, qld, brisbane-4000, guam

Union 'twisting' Qantas service claims

June 12, 2009 02:00:00

Qantas says a union spokesman representing its engineers is twisting the airline's words.[MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, australia, qld, coolangatta-4225, guam, japan

Jetstar cockpit fire: Investigators head to Guam

June 11, 2009 13:19:00

Investigators head to Guam to examine the Jetstar plane which made an emergency landing after a cockpit fire. [MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, australia, qld, coolangatta-4225, guam, japan

Fire forces Jetstar emergency landing

June 11, 2009 07:24:00

A Jetstar flight from Japan to the Gold Coast has made an emergency landing in Guam.[MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, australia, qld, coolangatta-4225, guam, japan

Guam educator pushes more tertiary study

November 29, 2008 01:27:00

A leading educator in Guam says public school authorities must work with local tertiary institutions, to increase the number of high school students who enrol in post-secondary education.[MORE]

Tags: education, secondary-education, university-and-further-education, world-politics, guam

Pacific Is territories hold own US elections

November 5, 2008 22:31:00

As the US presidential election comes to an end, a number of Pacific Island territories are still counting votes, having held their own elections on November 4.[MORE]

Tags: us-elections, us-election, guam, northern-mariana-islands, palau, united-states

Guam poll predicts Obama victory

November 5, 2008 10:26:00

A straw poll of voters in the US territory of Guam is predicting Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama will win the election.[MORE]

Tags: world-politics, us-elections, us-election, guam, united-states

All 6 aboard B-52 in Guam crash dead: US

July 23, 2008 20:07:00

All six crew members aboard a US B-52 bomber that crashed into the Pacific Ocean off Guam earlier this week are dead, the US Air Force has said.[MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, guam, united-states

B-52 crashes off Guam

July 22, 2008 07:05:00

Two US airmen were killed and four are missing after their B-52 bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean shortly after take-off while preparing to fly in a Liberation Day parade in the US territory of Guam, officials said.[MORE]

Tags: defence-and-national-security, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, unrest-conflict-and-war, guam, united-states

B-52 crashes off Guam with 6 on board

July 21, 2008 16:11:00

A US Air Force B-52 bomber has crashed off the coast of Guam in the central Pacific and there has been no immediate word on the fate of the six crew members, navy officials said.[MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, guam, united-states

Guam ponders Northern Marianas reunification

May 27, 2008 19:00:00

Guam has raised the possibility that the US Pacific territory may consider reuniting with the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas to become the 51st state of America.[MORE]

Tags: government-and-politics, world-politics, guam

Obama beats Clinton in Guam battle

May 4, 2008 13:00:00

Democrats Senator Barack Obama beat rival Hillary Clinton by just seven votes in Guam's nominating contest after record numbers of residents voted in the tiny US territory's primary, officials said.[MORE]

Tags: world-politics, guam, united-states

Democratic race moves to unlikely Guam

May 1, 2008 21:19:00

US Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been campaigning for support from the US territory of Guam.[MORE]

Tags: world-politics, guam, united-states

US Air Force bomber crashes, pilots safe

February 23, 2008 15:26:00

A United States B-2 bomber has crashed at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam just after taking off but the two pilots on board ejected safely, the US Air Force says.[MORE]

Tags: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space-accidents, guam, united-states

Russian bombers intercepted near US Navy ship

February 12, 2008 10:47:00

Russian bomber aircraft approached a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific on Saturday and were intercepted by American fighter jets, a US defence official have said.[MORE]

Tags: defence-and-national-security, unrest-conflict-and-war, guam, japan, russian-federation, united-states

NKorea unveils new ballistic missile: report

May 13, 2007 12:55:00

North Korea has unveiled its latest intermediate-range ballistic missile at a military parade, amid an international stand-off over its nuclear program, a new report says.[MORE]

Tags: unrest-conflict-and-war, guam, north-korea

South Pacific islanders report volcanic ash sickness

February 2, 2005 19:14:00

Scores of people have reported sick on the South Pacific island of Guam because of haze and ash from an erupting volcano in a neighbouring island in the Northern Marianas. [MORE]

Tags: volcanic-eruption, guam