The University of Hawaii is poised to renew a controversial contract to conduct research for the U.S. military worth up to $285 million over 10 years.

Two ID troops complete annual training event. This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Mar. 7, 2002. It is republished unedited in its original form.

Imjin river valley, South Korea, Mar. 2, 2002: Army Pvt. Jason Rivas, a bridge crewmember on a bridge-erection boat, keeps in position the bays, which form the bridge, at the Army Training Evaluation Program in South Korea.

The destroyer JS Sazanami, along with Australian and New Zealand vessels, sailed through the Taiwan Strait.

The third indictment of a U.S. service member on sexual assault charges this year prompted fresh protests from an Okinawa city this week.

E.J. King’s girls volleyball team and tennis squads among those traveling to South Korea for inter-district competition.

North Korea has likely enriched enough uranium to build a “double-digit” number of bombs and is making progress in its efforts to develop more powerful and accurate missiles targeting rival South Korea. That’s according to what Seoul’s spy agency told lawmakers on Thursday.

A joint venture between a California construction company and a Japanese developer acquired another contract for more facilities at Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz as the Guam installation inches closer to full operation.

A federal judge has approved a $600 million class-action settlement involving last year’s disastrous derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. 

The Lowy Institute’s Asia Power Index still rates the U.S. as the region’s most powerful nation, leading China on six out of eight measures. However, America’s military advantage is eroding, according to the report released Tuesday by the Australian think tank.

A passenger was killed after a gunman hijacked a city bus in Los Angeles early Wednesday, leading to a slow police chase through downtown before the suspect was eventually arrested, authorities said.

A soldier convicted of child rape pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he deserted to avoid the rape trial and killed a taxi driver while trying to flee from the Seattle area.