Efforts to encourage activities like village tours and handicraft workshops appears to be helping tourism rebound from ...

In return, the United States gives Palau hundreds of millions of dollars in budgetary ... But several low-lying Pacific nations including Nauru, Tonga and the Cook Islands see deep-sea mining as a ...

Photo: Reinhard Dirscherl / Getty While researching an upcoming trip to Palau, a tiny island nation dotting Micronesia’s western edge, I found endless information about its famed mushroom-shaped ...

There is no suggestion of a direct Chinese military threat to Palau. Instead the island nation is an example of the sometimes-obscure battleground on which the United States and China are pursuing ...

As Earth is an oasis of life in infinite space, so the islands of Palau form a living Eden surrounded by a desert of ocean. Palau, a cluster of green islands, is surrounded by sparkling blue ocean.

SYDNEY--The Pacific island of Palau will build an undersea telecoms cable financed by Australia, Japan and the United States in a $30-million project, Australia said on Wednesday. It is the first ...