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Poinsettia Taefu with Samoan reality TV star Asuelu Pula'a, and band members Nanai Viellani and Melody Peteru
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Tourism Authority (STA) confirmed that Samoa was one of the Pacific Island nations represented at this year's Los Angeles Travel & Adventure Show, which took place from February 18 & 19 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California. American Samoa, Cook Islands,...
The Samoa Ministry of Health building
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Ministry of Health is calling on all parents with children under five to ensure that their child has been immunised for measles, mumps and rubella. The Ministry said there are still a significant number of children under five who have not yet completed their scheduled...
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Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Airways has failed to remit to local taxation authorities approximately WST2 million tala (USD737,450 dollars) in personal income tax payments collected from employees since 2019, according to Aviation.com. Samoa Observer is also reporting airline employees saying that tax...
embassy statement
Honolulu, HAWAII — Filipinos in American Samoa and Hawaii are being warned against job offers to work as call center agents in Southeast Asia as this might just lead to working as crypto scammers being ran by criminal syndicates in the region. This comes after the Philippine Embassy in Honolulu...
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Port Vila, VANUATU — Vanuatu's Minister of Agriculture says a small cannery will be built this year for the tuna market. For years the Vanuatu Government has been planning the establishment of a processing plant for its company Sino-Van. Sino-Van is a joint-venture between the Vanuatu government,...
Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa with new Vailima owners
Apia, SAMOA — Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataʻafa is applauding the patriotic initiative to return the Vailima beer brand to Samoa owned and managed by Samoans without any strings attached. Acknowledging the agreement brainchild between the Samoa Breweries Ltd (SBL) and Charlie Va’ai and Beatrice...
Qian Bo,
HONG KONG — China has named a special envoy to fill a new role in its Pacific Islands diplomacy as it competes with the United States for influence in the region. Qian Bo, China’s ambassador to Fiji since 2018, was appointed as the first special envoy of the Chinese government on Pacific Islands...
Fiji Airways plane
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s Commissioner of Police and Prisons has said they would not charge a woman who had stowed away on a Fiji Airways flight to Nadi in December last year. The Fiji times is reporting flight attendants discovered the woman asleep in the aircraft’s lavatory after the December 25...
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Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s tourism industry currently accounts for 25 percent of the country’s GDP, employing around 15 percent of the workforce and generating a third of the country’s total foreign reserves.  “Given its prominent role in driving Samoa’s economy, the Samoa Tourism Sector Plan (STSP) was...
Samoa Supreme Court building
Apia, SAMOA — A man in Samoa has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in jail for two convictions of manslaughter, after two people died on New Year's Day 2021. Fa'alavaau Vaotuua Auleoleo Neemia, 69, told the court that one of the victims, Utufua Voi, swore at him, formed a roadblock with his...

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