“Because if marketing in Mainland China would lead to more business for the hotels, why don’t the hotels do it themselves? After all, the hotels would receive ALL of the…

Editorial by Troy Torres, Kandit News & Views It has come to my attention since publishing our editorial Why Would Any Reasonable Citizen Trust HANMI After the Casino Failure? that…

Memories can be short. That’s how we end up electing liars and idiots whose lies and idiocy fall behind the veil of time. It’s how we trumpet sweeping tariffs, forgetting…

The Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands and the Saipan Chamber of Commerce issued a joint news release AGAIN pushing their favorite dead issue: tourism from China. Calm down…

The oft-touted yearning of the Marianas Visitors Authority, Saipan Chamber of Commerce, and Hotel Association of the NMI for Chinese tourists to Saipan is becoming more a pipe dream these…

[Editor’s note: Kandit mistakenly published the first draft of Ms. Luhan’s opinion on July 29, 2024. We apologize to our readers and provide this updated article as of 6:48 p.m.,…

The Chinese Communist Party’s recent provocations right around us need to be connected in public debates to the relentless propaganda by the Hotel Association of the Northern Mariana Islands (HANMI)…

By Mabel Doge Luhan Oh, boo hoo! The Hyatt is closing down! Now I have no idea where I’ll go to “savor” (as the Saipan newspapers always say) recently thawed…

It’s interesting to read the whining of tourism officials and representatives of companies that received millions in corporate welfare from federal pandemic funds. ‘We are in desperate mode,’ say those…