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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As part of their activities leading up to the finale — pageant night, this Friday — the four Miss American Samoa Inc. contestants gathered at the Pala Lagoon- Lions Park area to ‘help keep Samoa clean’ collecting trash by the bags full. There was a delay due to the heavy...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Families in America continue to give promising futures to several victims of abuse from Samoa.
One of them is a 24-year old Lauto’ofa from Samoa Victims Support Groups’ (SVSG ) Campus of Hope, in the Independent State of Samoa.
Lautoofa was brought into the shelter at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The U.S based, American Tunaboat Association (ATA) is urging the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “to establish a management plan for any Pacific Remote Islands sanctuary that does not further restrict commercial fishing in areas where such activity is...
Wellington, NEW ZELAND — It's believed the traditional Samoan tatau, or tattoos, have been around for more than 3000 years and survived attempts to ban it.
Legend has it the tatau was gifted to Samoa from goddesses, Taema and Tilafaiga, who taught the Samoan people the practice, entrusting the...
Washington, D.C. — Uifa’atali Amata has been named Co-Chairman of a bipartisan Task Force officially announced in a Wednesday press conference at the U.S. Capitol as part of the work of the Committee on Natural Resources.
Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Ranking Member Raúl M....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The United States of America is one of the participants on the 15th Trade Policy Review of the European Union this week,
Day two of this meeting was chaired by Ambassador Saqer Abdullah Almoqbel (Saudi Arabia).
A Geneva Trade Official in connection with Samoa News,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A film crew from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is in the territory this week to take pictures and interview families that are listed as low income.
Territorial Energy Office director Misipati Salanoa in response to questions from Samoa News says the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Miss American Samoa Incorporation (MASI) President Simeafou Otemai-Imo, and the reigning Miss American Samoa Kauhani Fuimaono presented a Certificate of Appreciation for Governor Lemanu P. S. Mauga and Lt. Gov. Talauega E. V. Ale. Talauega was on hand to accept the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — It will be Father’s Day in less than two weeks in the territory, but Fetu Vili still reels from the death of her husband in 2021 in front of the StarKist Samoa. Levao Ierome Vili was one of the three men that were killed from a tragic car accident at Satala in the early...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Miss American Samoa Inc. pageant is introducing the four young women who will be vying for the coveted title, this Friday evening, June 10, 2023, at the Gov. H. Rex Lee Auditorium, in Utulei. This year’s pageant theme is “O Le Tama’ita’i Samoa ma Lona Fa’asinomaga...