The privilege of being the first to ring in the New Year 2025 goes to Kiribati, particularly its Kiritimati Atoll. This small island nation in the Pacific Ocean shifted its time zone to UTC+14 in ...

Reading a travelogue by J. Maarten Troost entitled, The Sex Lives of Cannibals - focused on his experiences when uprooting from his life in the USA to Kiribati - also painted a less than flattering ...

Current local time in Kiritimati (Pacific/Kiritimati timezone). Get information about the Pacific/Kiritimati time zone. Local time and date, DST adjusted (where ever daylight saving time is applicable ...

One day in 1946, Navy Commodore Ben Wyatt traveled to an isolated speck of land called Bikini Atoll located in the Marshall Islands between Australia and Hawaii. He had a grim message for its 167 ...

Earlier, Kiritimati, a Pacific Ocean atoll home to about 5,000 people, welcomed the New Year, the first inhabited place to do so each year. Attention will now shift to Asia, where many cities also ...

The new year is practically here. Whether you're busting out the bubbly at a bar, hitting up a house party, hosting at home or just hanging out on the couch, entertaining others (or yourself ...

While waiting for an answer from the local authorities that issued our permit, the SV1GA/A team decided to leave Mt. Athos.

BEIJING : China's coast guard said the Philippines on Friday (Jan 24) sent a civilian vessel to deliver provisions to its warship "illegally grounded" at Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed atoll in ...

China, seeking to redevelop a disused U.S. World War Two airfield in Kiribati, has become a major development partner to the atoll nation since it switched diplomatic ties from Taiwan in 2019.