Can speaking Pidgin give you an advantage in learning the Hawaiian language? That is the subject of a study by a linguist at the University of British Columbia in Canada. As HPR's Kuʻuwehi Hiraishi reports, the linguist drew inspiration from Māori and Māori-accented English in Aotearoa.
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Four Honolulu Police officers are accused of causing or attempting to cover up the 2021 crash in Makaha, which left one person with life changing injuries.
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Hawaii Electric said that power availability on Hawaiʻi Island will be “extremely tight” through at least mid-April.
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The clinic will be located at the Hyatt Regency Maui Resort and run between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. It will replace Kaiser's mobile health clinics, which served the West Maui community over the last 7 months.
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Dr. Song Yi Park will conduct the study. Park is a professor and co-investigator of the Multiethnic Cohort Study, the largest study of more than 215,000 residents in Hawaiʻi and Los Angeles.
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Every year, global motor shows have an increasing focus on electric vehicles. That's true this week in Thailand, as HPR's Bill Dorman explains in today's Asia Minute.
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Meta is now limiting the amount of political content it recommends to Instagram and Threads users. Here's why it made the change — and how to opt out of it.
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The documentary film “26.2 to Life” is set to screen at the Hawaiʻi International Film Festival Spring Showcase on Tuesday. The story highlights three inmates at San Quentin prison in California facing life sentences who took up marathon running while behind bars.
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