The Board of Public Lands last week voted to cancel commercial leases held by three mining companies bound under signed agreements to perform pozzolan and basalt extraction on the island of Pagan.

As Asian nations hastily put up defenses against mad cow disease, farmers in major beef producer Australia are worried their markets may suffer even though their herds are disease-free.

Several teams from the Public School System held last week a series of staff development workshop aimed to revise the CNMI standards for various subject areas to meet the demands of the new millennium.

Vanuatu's Acting Chief Justice yesterday issued an interim order saying that the government should allow deported Vanuatu Trading Post publisher Marc Neil-Jones back into the country.