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Washington, DC — Congresswoman Aumua Amata highlighted the Taiwan Relations Act, and gave remarks at a Capitol event celebrating 40 years of this important legislation last week.
“The United States has a robust friendship with Taiwan, and it’s important to all of us in the vast Pacific region,”...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Near the end of the spring 2019 semester, the automotive instruction program at the American Samoa Community College (ASCC), which falls under the institution’s Trades & Technical Department (TTD), received a major boost when the local branch of the United States...
![North Korean cargo vessel Wise Honest coming into Pago Pago harbor. [photo: Samoa News]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/img_n_korean_vessel.jpg?itok=Nw1u3GMj "North Korean cargo vessel Wise Honest coming into Pago Pago harbor. [photo: Samoa News]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA (AP) — A North Korean cargo ship seized by the U.S. because of suspicions it was used to violate international sanctions arrived Saturday at the capital of this American territory.
The Wise Honest was slowly towed to the port of Pago Pago Saturday morning and docked at the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 32-year-old man who was convicted of stealing - and later selling - a tool box containing tools belonging to a mechanic, has been ordered to pay a $1,000 fine as a condition of his 7-year probation sentence.
Fred Logolelei was convicted of stealing, a felony punishable...
Washington, DC — Congresswoman Aumua Amata is an original co-sponsor of two fishing-related bills examined in a Natural Resources Committee hearing, and co-sponsored another Pacific bipartisan bill on education policy. The hearing of the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife is an important...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The South Pacific Tourism Organisation has a new chairperson, he is David Vaeafe, the Executive Director of the American Samoa Visitors Bureau.
The announcement was made this week after the SPTO board met in Auckland ahead of the South Pacific Tourism Exchange (SPTE) which...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Bail is set at $5,000 for a man who allegedly struck another man with a metal pipe, while he was naked in bed with his wife.
The defendant is charged with one count of second degree assault, a class D felony; and third degree assault (domestic violence), a class A...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Folasa Galea’i was found guilty this past Wednesday afternoon of vehicular homicide, after jurors deliberated for 2 1/2 hours.
Vehicular homicide is a class D felony, punishable by imprisonment of up to 5 years, a fine of up to $5,000 or both.
Galea’i, 26, didn’t react...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The government, under legislation signed into law Apr. 29 by then acting governor, Talauega Eleasalo Ale, who is also the Attorney General, will soon regulate money transfer businesses in American Samoa.
(Talauega was acting governor when Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The first ever American Samoa mental health summit is aiming to reduce stigma, build capacity and improve health outcomes. especially for military veterans and their families.
Acting governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga, who is also an army veteran, told the summit that after...