Welcome to Global Islands Network           News Headlines China criticizes Clinton comments on island chains BEIJING, China, 30 July 2010 (AP) - China's military today criticized remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that Washington had a strong interest in seeing territorial disputes in the South China Sea resolved peacefully. Inspectors wanted islands kept on the list. So what happened? LONDON, UK, 30 July 2010 (Independent) - One of the many headlines on the internet yesterday summed it up: "Unesco Says Galapagos Islands No Longer Threatened". But they are. It's simply not true. Spain's strongest bank a family affair MADRID, Spain, 29 July 2010 (Guardian) - The bank from the Balearic Islands was hardly on the tip of most people's tongues when rumours began spreading before the stress tests were made public that a Spanish bank would come top of the class. Islanders plead for help as homes sink BOUGAINVILLE, PNG, 29 July 2010 (ABC) - Residents of Papua New Guinea's sinking Carteret Islands are known as the world's first climate change refugees but international attention has not translated into relief from their plight. Rare giant coral spotted in Pacific SYDNEY, Australia, 29 July 2010 (ABC) - Researchers from James Cook University in far north Queensland say they have discovered one of the world's rarest coral species. New directory set to help conserve Cuba's birds CAMBRIDGE, UK, 28 July 2010 (BirdLife) - The National Centre for Protected Areas has launched an Important Bird Areas (IBAs) directory for Cuba.   SICRI 6th ISIC conference 23-26 June, 2010, Guernsey, Channel Islands SAIL BANDA International Small Islands conference 4-5 August, 2010, Ambon, Indonesia ISISA Islands of the World XI conference 23-26 August, 2010, Bornholm, Denmark IGU Islands Commission conference 27-30 August, 2010, Hven, Sweden CBD COP 10 18-29 Oct, 2010, Nagoya, Japan USP Future Challenges, Ancient Solutions conference 29 Nov-3 Dec, 2010, Suva, Fiji ISLAND DYNAMICS Taking Malta out of the Box conference 11-15 May, 2011, Malta UNIV OF ABERDEEN World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 26-30 Sept, 2011, Aberdeen, Scotland ISLAND INFORMATION & MAPS Island Directory, Islands of the World, Island Jurisdictions Index, Island Information, Oceandots Island Atlas, Worldmapper