The New Year sweeps across the Pacific beginning with our next door neighbor, Samoa, and a day later, 2018 finishes its sweep around the world with American Samoa. Pictured fireworks exploding ove
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![The start of New Year's Day, at midnight, is celebrated by fireworks, parties and special events. [Photo: FreeImages]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/500195113_08654.jpg?itok=tY34q516 "The start of New Year's Day, at midnight, is celebrated by fireworks, parties and special events. [Photo: FreeImages]")
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![City of Sydney New Year's fireworks display. [photo: The Telegraph]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/DSXhdaLV4AAc_D2.jpg?itok=FnRKJa3T "City of Sydney New Year's fireworks display. [photo: The Telegraph]")
The New Year has officially begun, as midnight passed in Samoa, Tonga and Christmas Island/Kiribati, the first places in the world to welcome in 2018.
![A new day on Dec. 28 with three more days before the New Year 2018, with great weather in sunny American Samoa, as the sun rose from coastline off Faganeanea village on Tutuila island around 8a.m. [photo:Leua Aiono Frost]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Untitled%20Extract%20Pages_Page_1_Image_0002_1.jpg?itok=dS2e72bz "A new day on Dec. 28 with three more days before the New Year 2018, with great weather in sunny American Samoa, as the sun rose from coastline off Faganeanea village on Tutuila island around 8a.m. [photo:Leua Aiono Frost]")
Church services and parties top the list of activities when American Samoa welcomes in 2018 at the stroke of 12 midnight Sunday night, the last in the U.S.
Mai le tele o tausaga, sa galue lenei tusiupu, Eti Sa'aga, e avea ma so'otau'au ma le lautele o le atunu'u i galuega fa'aliliu upu, tusi upu ma tapenaga o tautalaga ma folasaga fa'apitoa mo le sui
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$2.6MIL TUPE MO LE MALO AMERIKA SAMOA - SALA STAR KIST:
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Thursday in court, District Court Judge Fiti Sunia raised his voice to a defendant, who is an overstayer, and who has allegedly caused a person to end up in the hospital
![Kings and Pacific Music Awards trustee, Petrina Togi-Saena [Photo: Supplied / Vodafone Pacific Music Awards]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_Kings_and_Petrina_Togi-Saena.jpg?itok=ylZG1bSa "Kings and Pacific Music Awards trustee, Petrina Togi-Saena [Photo: Supplied / Vodafone Pacific Music Awards]")
The Minister for Pacific Peoples, Aupito William Sio, has congratulated the thirteen Pacific people recognised in the New Zealand New Years Honours list.
