Le Loia Sili a le malo, Talauega Eleasalo Ale, ma le Sui Fa’atonusili o Aoga ia Philo Jennings. [ata AF]
Ua i luma nei o le maota maualuga se tulafono sa fa’aulufaleina e afioga i Senatoa, e fa’atulaga ai se fa’asalaga mo se tasi e maua o ia soli lotoa o aoga i le taimi o le po e aunoa ma se fa’atanag
NEW YORK (AP) -- Hawaii consistently ranks among the healthiest states, but a federal survey found Native Hawaiians are in unusually bad health.
![American Samoa's Under-17 (U17) National Women’s Beach Handball Team with head coach Carl Floor Sr., (far right) who is also president of the American Samoa Handball Association, and coach Joey Sagapolu (far left), on Wednesday at the Pago Pago International Airport when the group arrived home from the 2017 Under 17 Beach Handball World Championship Games in the Republic of Mauritius. The team has clinched a spot in the October 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aries, Argentina. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/beach%20Handball%20group.jpg?itok=59uBV0NG "American Samoa's Under-17 (U17) National Women’s Beach Handball Team with head coach Carl Floor Sr., (far right) who is also president of the American Samoa Handball Association, and coach Joey Sagapolu (far left), on Wednesday at the Pago Pago International Airport when the group arrived home from the 2017 Under 17 Beach Handball World Championship Games in the Republic of Mauritius. The team has clinched a spot in the October 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aries, Argentina. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost]")
After clinching a spot and qualifying for the next year’s Youth Olympics, the American Samoa Handball Association’s next focus is training the territory’s Under-17 Women'
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Next Thursday, the Department of Commerce and the Development Bank of American Samoa will be co-hosting the "Access to Capital Business Workshop" at the Gov. H.
![Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama addressing climate change talks consultations in Bonn, May 2017 [Photo: Supplied]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/fijiPM%20copy.jpg?itok=Fz3EmPBi "Fiji Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama addressing climate change talks consultations in Bonn, May 2017 [Photo: Supplied]")
An Australian think tank says the withdrawal of the US Trump administration from the Paris Accord presents an opportunity for the Pacific to look to China.
![Mervin Tano, Kapiolani Community College KIKSAPA NASA TCU-ELO program intern, Haskell Native American University, Lawrence Kansas. [courtesy photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Mervin%20Tano%20copy.jpg?itok=yFJ41r70 "Mervin Tano, Kapiolani Community College KIKSAPA NASA TCU-ELO program intern, Haskell Native American University, Lawrence Kansas. [courtesy photo]")
Mervin Tano, a native Hawaiian student from Kapiolani Community College, was accepted by the 2017 NASA Summer Research Experience for Tribal College Undergraduates.
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Nine Pacific Island food and beverage companies from five countries will showcase and sell their wares of packaged foods and drinks at the Auckland Food Show this week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interior Acting Assistant Secretary for Insular Areas Nikolao Pula made available $94,906 for natural and cultural resource protection in Americ
Brian Lloyd, poses for a Samoa News photo next to his single engine plane “Spirit” around 9p.m. Saturday (July 22) at Pago Pago International Airport.