Fast Company

The Pacific island nation of Palau just became the first country to ban reef-killing sunscreen

For a coral reef, a tiny amount of sunscreen–the equivalent of a drop of water in 6.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools–can be deadly. In the Pacific island nation of Palau, where the number of tourists in ...
Asiatoday.id

Debt Remains High, but Palau’s Economy Accelerates Toward a Rapid Recovery

ASIATODAY.ID, WASHINGTON — Palau’s economy is rebounding faster than expected, but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) ...
Digital Journal

Palau becomes the first country to ban sunscreen to protect reefs

Palau has banned tanning products, like sun cream and sunscreen due to the harm that these products cause to corals and sea life. The ban came into effect on January 1, 2020. One ingredient in ...
CoinDesk

Pacific Island Group of Palau Starts Stablecoin Trial on XRP Ledger

Palau, a country comprising some 340 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is running a trial of a stablecoin linked to the U.S. dollar, Jay Hunter Anson, a member of the board of directors at the Ministry of ...
CNN

Already free of coronavirus, this Pacific islands country could become the first in the world to be vaccinated

A cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean that’s one of the few places on Earth entirely free from Covid-19 could become one of the first countries vaccinated against the disease. The Republic of ...