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                    [Title] => Palau: Jewel in the Pacific
                    [Summary] => Mention Palau to me and my mind conjures up images of a distant, exotic place, with clear blue water all around, fishes, birds, flowers, peace and quiet... So when this paper's Lifestyle executive editor Mayen Tan asked, "Are you free to go to Palau on May 30?," the wanderlust in me said yes right away.
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                    [AuthorName] => Divine S. Ngujo
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                    [Title] => Take a plunge into Palau
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Before Asian Spirit flew there for the first time on April 2, Palau was a name known only to avid scuba divers. 


"What’s in Palau?" people would ask when I told them where I was going, or – even worse – "What’s Palau?"

FYI, it’s a tiny island nation in Micronesia that shares many similarities to ours. For one, it’s an archipelago, but so much smaller that if you drive 10 minutes in any direction, you’re bound to hit the sea.
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133945 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1772097 [AuthorName] => Therese Jamora-Garceau [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism [SectionUrl] => travel-and-tourism [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 260617 [Title] => Palau airline inaugurates Mla flight [Summary] => In any of Palau’s typical beaches, there are more fish than people, enough of an incentive for diving enthusiasts or curious tourists to visit this island-nation two hours away by plane from Manila.

This is how Alan Seid, president of Palau Micronesia Air (PMA), introduced his country of 20,000 people to Manila during their inaugural flight Saturday.

Once part of the US Trust Territory, Palau became a full-blown Republic on Oct. 1, 1994, and its airline made Manila one of its first destinations "because it is the largest city closest to Palau."
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1725462 [AuthorName] => Rudy Santos [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )
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Before Asian Spirit flew there for the first time on April 2, Palau was a name known only to avid scuba divers. 


"What’s in Palau?" people would ask when I told them where I was going, or – even worse – "What’s Palau?"

FYI, it’s a tiny island nation in Micronesia that shares many similarities to ours. For one, it’s an archipelago, but so much smaller that if you drive 10 minutes in any direction, you’re bound to hit the sea.
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This is how Alan Seid, president of Palau Micronesia Air (PMA), introduced his country of 20,000 people to Manila during their inaugural flight Saturday.

Once part of the US Trust Territory, Palau became a full-blown Republic on Oct. 1, 1994, and its airline made Manila one of its first destinations "because it is the largest city closest to Palau."
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