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By Alfred Acenas EBC Hawaii Bureau PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (Eagle News) — The majority of servicemen who died aboard the USS Oklahoma when Pearl harbor was attacked by the Japanese in 1941 have been identified. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said 388 people have been identified, as nearly 86 percent of the remains the military has exhumed. “Even more remarkable than the collective success of this project are all the families who were able […]
By Alfred Acenas EBC Hawaii Bureau HONOLULU, HAWAII (Eagle News) – Now in its second month, the partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government has triggered consequences for the 800,000 plus federal workers affected, including several thousand in the Aloha State, ranging from not receiving paychecks for the last two pay periods while still having to pay bills to a decline in quality of customer service in their respective workplaces. Such is the predicament for air […]
By Alfred Acenas EBC Hawai‘i Bureau HONOLULU (Eagle News) — “Wild Wild West!” is how Department of Interior and Local Government Officer-in-Charge (DILG OIC) Eduardo Año described Boracay during a Town Hall Meeting hosted by the Philippine Consulate General in Honolulu on May 19, 2018. Año explained that the temporary closure was necessary to give Boracay Island the time to heal and recoup its original feature and ecosystem and that piecemeal rehabilitation was no longer […]
