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Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata is highlighting the last week of public comments for the National Asian Pacific American Museum, the next step in a major project that Congress created to honor Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and their achievements, progress, and lasting...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A whale-watching boat carrying several New Zealand Anglican Church delegates capsized and sank in Tonga on Saturday.
RNZ Pacific understands several passengers were briefly hospitalized, but there were no serious injuries.
Paramedics from New South Wales, who were in the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's main hospital was running low on oxygen supplies earlier this week, which reportedly resulted in the cancellation of surgeries, including those for breast cancer and kidney conditions.
According to the Samoa Observer, patients "awaiting critical surgeries" at...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Governor David Apatang says protecting Pacific waters and island communities must come first as the United States moves ahead with plans that could eventually open a vast area of seabed around the Mariana Trench to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The United Auckland Gospel Choir has cemented its place among the world's leading choirs after winning gold at the 2026 World Choir Games in Sweden, an event once known as the "Choir Olympics".
"No one can beat us at being us," Seumanu Seuoti Simon Matāfai JP, who is the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Northern Mariana Islands' delegate to the US Congress wants the territory to receive half of any federal revenue generated from potential seabed mining around the islands.
The US has recently invited bidders for seabed mining licenses in American Samoa, and will soon...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A 26-day deep sea expedition in the Cook Islands by a United States scientific agency has uncovered new information about marine life and seabed minerals within the country's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ship...
HONOLULU — Tropical Storm Lala left behind a muddy mess Monday caused by intense rainfall and flooding as it moved past Hawaii’s main islands.
Lala weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm Sunday after lashing the state without making landfall. The storm was projected to continue moving...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa Police told RNZ Pacific that Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi was held in remand for 24 hours, before being released this morning.
Tuilaepa, who was Samoa's Prime Minister for 21 years, told RNZ Pacific that this was an attempt by the state "to shut me up."
"They are...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A number of Pacific Islands countries have joined the United States in effectively accusing China of skirting the rules after Beijing's recent nuclear-capable missile test in the Pacific.
A joint statement released by the US government on August 11th implicitly claimed...