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New Plymouth, NEW ZEALAND — Children were the focus of the Sunday church service at Samoan Assembly of God in New Plymouth.
The day marked White Sunday, or Lotu Tamaiti which translates to children’s service, a national holiday in Samoa which falls on the second Sunday of October.
More than 20...
Apia, SAMOA — A Samoa repatriation flight from New Zealand scheduled for this Friday has been delayed until the 18th of September.
The government said the delay had been caused by "flight availability".
The flight is designated for returning citizens and seasonal workers.
Meanwhile, a repatriation...
Apia, SAMOA — Two men charged over the death of a former Auckland man in Samoa have been acquitted.
Jeremiah Malaki Tauili'ili, a graduate of Auckland’s AUT University, died on December 5, 2018 after an incident outside a Samoan nightclub in the early hours of December 1.
Three men were charged in...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's next repatriation flight from New Zealand has been scheduled for September 11 with the first flight from Australia scheduled to bring back students from China and Japan as well.
Next Friday's flight from New Zealand follows the cancellation of a previous flight on August 28...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — The first person jailed for human trafficking and slavery is appealing his conviction, while the Crown is appealing his sentence.
The Hastings-based Samoan chief, Joseph Auga Matamata, was last month sentenced to 11 years in prison for illegally bringing 13 Samoans to New...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With only two land surveyors on island, the American Samoa Power Authority has included in it’s apprenticeship program in New Zealand — a land surveyor apprenticeship, says ASPA acting executive director Wallon Young at last week’s cabinet meeting.
Young provided brief...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Tuesday that authorities have found four cases of the coronavirus in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days.
Ardern said Auckland, the...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Air New Zealand’s first flight to Tonga since the Covid-19 lockdown has taken off on Tuesday morning.
Flight NZ970 was due to land at Fua’amotu International Airport at 1.30pm local time.
It is the first Air NZ repatriation flight of Tongans since border restrictions were...
New Plymouth, NEW ZEALAND — Pasifika directors will be looking to make their mark when the Whānau Mārama: New Zealand International Film Festival gets underway next week.
For the first time, a Pacific person is selecting the finalists for the festival's NZ short film competition, and there's a...
Hastings, NEW ZEALAND — Seasonal workers stuck in Hawke's Bay are suffering from depression and anxiety because they don't know when they can return home.
More than 1500 workers from the Pacific who were due to return home in May are still in the region, and with the season officially over there is...