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Topic: Tuvalu

	Tuvalu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice or Lagoon Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean midway between Hawaii and Australia.
		Tuvalu was first sighted by Europeans in 1568 with the arrival of Alvaro de Mendaña y Neyra from Spain, who encountered the island of Nui but was unable to land.
		Tuvalu islands is a constitutional monarchy and Commonwealth Realm, with Queen Elizabeth II recognised as Queen of Tuvalu.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tuvalu (1950 words)

	Tuvalu - MSN Encarta
		Tuvalu’s nearest neighbors are the Fiji Islands, about 1,050 km (about 650 mi) to the south, and Samoa (formerly Western Samoa), about the same distance to the southeast.
		The atoll of Funafuti is the capital of Tuvalu.
		Tuvalu is a chain of nine low-lying coral islands, extending from northwest to southeast for about 600 km (about 400 mi).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574118/Tuvalu.html (1025 words)

	Prime Minister of Tuvalu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to Tuvalu's constitution, the Prime Minister must always be a member of Parliament, and is elected by Parliament in a secret ballot.
		The Governor-General of Tuvalu is responsible for conducting the election, and for proclaiming the winner.
		The office of Prime Minister was established when Tuvalu gained independence in 1978, although the post is sometimes considered to be a continuation of the earlier office of Chief Minister.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Tuvalu (217 words)

	A Fact Sheet: Tuvalu and ADB - ADB.org
		Tuvalu is a small island country in the Pacific lacking adequate resources for sustainable growth to alleviate poverty.
		With the Tuvalu Maritime Training Institute due for an upgrade to double the number of graduating seafarers and the Tuvaluan seafarers considered to be from a geopolitically safe country, expansion in seafaring employment is expected to lead to a growth in remittances.
		Tuvalu is the 39th largest shareholder among regional members and the 47th largest shareholder overall.
	www.adb.org /Documents/Fact_Sheets/TUV.asp (1366 words)

	Tuvalu Travel Guide, South Pacific Islands
		Tuvalu is one of the world's smallest and most isolated independent nations.
		Tuvalu is near the zone of hurricane formation, and these storms can appear with little warning and cause considerable damage.
		The gravest danger facing the atolls of Tuvalu is the greenhouse effect, a gradual warming of Earth's environment due to fossil fuel combustion and the widespread clearing of forests.
	www.southpacific.org /text/tuvalu.html (1600 words)

	EUROPA - Development - Countries - Tuvalu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The islanders of Tuvalu are Polynesians and until independence in 1978 their islands were combined with Micronesian neighbours in the north to form the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
		Tuvalu was considered one of the more politically stable of Pacific Island States, but since 1999 the country has had seven Prime Ministers, a situation often created by a sudden change of political support in Parliament.
		Tuvalu is a member of the Pacific Islands Forum, established in 1971 resulting from a desire of the independent countries in the region, including Australia and New Zealand, to tackle common economic and political issues from a regional perspective.
	europa.eu.int /comm/development/body/country/country_home_en.cfm?cid=tv&lng=en&status=new (1567 words)

	Tuvalu
		The islands were renamed Tuvalu and on 3 December 1976 a new flag was adopted: the British blue ensign with arms.
		The state flag of Tuvalu was reported in Gaceta de Banderas number 58 (January 2000) by Michel Lupant, who has a photograph of "the Tuvalu High Commission [sic] in Suva (Fiji), Tuvalu's only embassy".
		I have a photograph of an actual flag sent by the Government of Tuvalu in answer to enquiries on this subject, but (as I wrote in my last entry) it looks as if someone ran it up on a treadle sewing machine in their back room, and is useless for specification purposes.
	flagspot.net /flags/tv.html (1692 words)

	Tuvalu
		Tuvalu is a "special member" of the Commonwealth, eligible for benefits from its functional affiliates but not required to attend the Heads of Government Meetings.
		Tuvalu's minute size and almost total lack of exploitable resources suggest that most of the population will remain dependent on subsistence activities for the foreseeable future.
		Tuvalu exports small quantities of copra, sells licenses to foreign ships wishing to fish for tuna in it 200 mile exclusive economic zone, and has a successful philatelic bureau.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~ogden/piir/pacific/tuvalu.html (677 words)

	Tuvalu - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tuvalu was formerly known as the Ellice Islands or Lagoon Islands.
		Tuvalu is one of the smallest countries in the world, in fact, the fourth smallest.
		Another major factor contributing to gradual sinking of the island and salinization of its fresh water source is the consequences of runway construction (contructed by the Americans during WWII), which has brought a sizable part of island's area within inches of sea level and caused significant damage to the island's coralline base.
	www.southasiagrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/Tuvalu (1496 words)

	Climate Change - Tuvalu
		Tuvalu’s plan includes the selection of a climate change research committee, conducting a greenhouse gas inventory, communicating with the UN on climate change and rising sea levels, studying island vulnerability and adaptation strategies and then developing a national implementation strategy for climate change.
		Tuvalu has already completed the first four tasks and is hoping to have a plan in place by this June on how they can best combat and acclimate to the coming changes.
		Tuvalu's Prime Minister gave this address, which mentions global warming, when his country joined the United Nations.
	www.acfnewsource.org /environment/Tuvalu.html (672 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles
		Tuvalu is one of the smallest countries of the region.
		The Tuvalu Trust Fund, an investment vehicle owned by the state of Tuvalu, was established in 1987 to help the government achieve greater financial autonomy in the management of its financial affairs, and to help maintain or improve the levels of social infrastructure and services.
		Tuvalu acceded to full membership of both the UN and the Commonwealth (where it was previously a special member) in 2000.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019061923284 (810 words)

	Tuvalu Movie Review: Box Office Prophets
		Tuvalu was initially filmed in fl-and-white and then the stock was tinted and colorized, depending on setting.
		Tuvalu provides a number of laugh-out-loud moments even as the plot shifts with more violent and tragic twists (though the violence is fairly cartoonish in nature).
		Tuvalu is not a film that could ever hope to find any sort of mainstream audience due to its extreme eccentricity, but the greatest compliment I can give is that it awakened an interest in early film history that I look forward to exploring in the near future.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /hollis/tuvalu.asp (1029 words)

	TUVALU
		Tuvalu comprises a chain, 580 kilometres long, of nine coral islands lying between 5 and 11 degrees south of the equator, just to the west of the International Date Line.
		In 1979 the population of Tuvalu was estimated to be 7349.
		The present population of Tuvalu is estimated to be 10,524.
	www.janeresture.com /tuvalu/tuvalu.html (1993 words)

	Tuvalu
		Tuvalu is a small, isolated country with a population of 10000 people, who live on nine low-lying coral atolls with a total land area of just 26 square kilometres.
		Tuvalu's economy is substantially supported by foreign fishing licence fees, remittances from workers overseas and interest from the Tuvalu Trust Fund established by donors and the Government of Tuvalu in 1987.
		Faced with the challenges of a small and fragile economy, the Government of Tuvalu has embarked on measures to strengthen economic planning and reform the public sector to ensure that the policy environment is conducive to greater national self-reliance.
	www.ausaid.gov.au /country/country.cfm?CountryId=22 (599 words)

	Tuvalu profile
		Tuvalu is a group of islands lying in the south-central Pacific north of Fiji.
		Because of the low topography of all of the Tuvalu islands, sea level rise is of major concern to the country.
		Tuvalu is a member of the South Pacific Commission (SPC), the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP).
	www.fao.org /fi/fcp/en/tuv/profile.htm (2661 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Guardian daily comment \| Comment: Farewell Tuvalu
		For many years the most interesting thing to happen to the Pacific island state of Tuvalu was the sale of its internet domain name,.tv, for $50m (£35m).
		But, just as Tuvalu has traded in its virtual domain, it is about to lose its real one.
		Tuvalu is paying for the rich world's experiment with the global atmosphere.
	www.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,3604,582445,00.html (828 words)

	Movie Review - Tuvalu, starring Denis Lavant and Chulpan Khamatova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tuvalu is set primarily in a decrepit bathhouse (in Sofia, Bulgaria) that is on the verge of physical and financial ruin, in part because the ticket seller accepts buttons in lieu of cash.
		Eva dreams of escaping her troubles by sailing away to the south pacific island nation of Tuvalu, but in order to get her boat in running condition she requires a rare part from the Imperial, the beautiful, antique machine that controls the water level and temperature in the bath.
		Tuvalu is one of those rare films that gives moviegoers the opportunity to see the art of the motion picture through new eyes.
	www.screenplayers.net /Tuvalu.html (890 words)

	Tuvalu (09/05)
		Tuvalu became fully independent in 1978 and in 1979 signed a treaty of friendship with the United States, which recognized Tuvalu's possession of four small islands formerly claimed by the United States.
		Toafa is the ninth Prime Minister of Tuvalu and also holds the portfolio of Minister for Foreign Affairs and Labor.
		Tuvalu is an active member of the Pacific Islands Forum.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/16479.htm (2204 words)

	Tuvalu Map, South Pacific Islands
		Tuvalu lies in the Central Pacific 1,000 kilometers north of Fiji.
		Tuvalu's only international airport and hotel are on Funafuti, and to travel beyond the capital both visitors and locals must board one of the supply ships which call at each island every few weeks.
		Tuvalu is best known internationally for its status as an endangered country.
	www.mapsouthpacific.com /tuvalu (202 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tuvalu's sinking, but its domain is on solid ground (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the late-1990s, Tuvalu was supposed to get rich by selling access to its Internet domain, which happens to be.tv — funny, since the entire nation has not a single broadcast TV station.
		Instead, the money is more of a trickle, and Tuvalu has a much bigger problem: The entire Tuvalu land mass — nine slender South Pacific islands and atolls —; is apparently doomed to sink beneath the ocean.
		Tuvalu might someday be revered as a trendsetter.
	www.usatoday.com /money/industries/technology/maney/2004-04-27-tuvalu_x.htm (1131 words)

	Amazon.com: Tuvalu (Widescreen): DVD: Denis Lavant,Chulpan Khamatova,Philippe Clay,Terrence Gillespie,E.J. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tuvalu was filmed in Bulgaria but the film is set in a stark dreamland during what seems to be either a mildly post-apocalyptic future, a somewhat stilted present, or maybe just another dimension altogether.
		Tuvalu is a relatively simple love story, but unlike other love stories this one is draped in enough surreal eye candy to keep you interested even if the thin plot doesn't.
		Tuvalu is a much kinder, gentler film, and while its world is not without its dangers, and indeed even death and night and blood, its spirit draws more from classic European cinema of the 30s and 40s than from the post-punk Gilliamesque humor of Caro and Jeunet.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006BS78?v=glance (2086 words)

	Tuvalu on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The colony became self-governing in 1971, and in 1974 the Ellice Islanders voted for separate British dependency status as Tuvalu.
		The sinking feeling: their island nation on the verge of disappearing due to sea level rise, citizens of Tuvalu prepare for repatriation.
		Yesterday Tuvalu became the 189th member of the UN by using a new e-commerce resource: the dotTV connection.(World)(The New Economy)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/T/Tuvalu.asp (614 words)

	Tuvalu - Country information - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		Tuvalu is a constitutional monarchy with a 15-member unicameral parliament elected every 4 years.
		Tuvalu signed a Treaty of Friendship with the United States in 1979 and has diplomatic relations with several other countries including Japan and the Republic of Korea.
		Australia is Tuvalu's most significant development partner, providing an estimated $3 million in bilateral aid in 2004-05 to support the operation of the Trust Fund and activities in human resource development (primarily the education and training sectors).
	www.dfat.gov.au /geo/tuvalu/tuvalu_brief.html (834 words)

	Tuvalu travel guide - Wikitravel
		Tuvalu is located in the South Pacific and is a group of islands that form the fourth smallest county in the world.
		In 1974, ethnic differences within the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands caused the Polynesians of the Ellice Islands to vote for separation from the Micronesians of the Gilbert Islands.
		The Tuvalu Marine School, on an outer islet of Funafuti, trains Tuvaluan mariners for service on foreign ships.
	wikitravel.org /en/Tuvalu (354 words)

	GeographyIQ - World Atlas - Oceania - Tuvalu - Economy
		Tuvalu's GDP per capita was about U.S.$2,020 in 2004.
		About 800 Tuvalu men are employed abroad at any given time as miners in Nauru, or sailors, primarily on German-owned ships.
		Tuvalu is a safe country of unspoiled natural beauty and friendly people.
	www.geographyiq.com /countries/tv/Tuvalu_economy_summary.htm (490 words)

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