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Canberra, AUSTRALIA — The International Finance Corporation says Australian-based Tongans can now access a digital product that significantly cuts the costs of remitting money.
'Ave Pa'anga Pau cuts the fees that international agencies apply to money transfers and the IFC says Tongans have been...
Apia, SAMOA — The U.S. Embassy in Apia held an educational program on the U.S. presidential elections for sixty-five students from four different schools including Pesega College, Robert Louis Stevenson School, Leififi College and Vaiala Beach School.
The event was a three-hour program introducing...
Apia, SAMOA — Justice Tafaoimalo Leilani Tuala-Warren has highlighted the dangers of a locally produced vodka, calling for authorities to take tighter controls and raise public awareness of its impacts.
In handing down the sentence of four youth for causing the death of a 38 year old father after a...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — The crew on a New Zealand Air force Orion have helped find two boats missing off Kiribati.
The two boats, which had been reported as missing separately, were found in quick succession.
There were four survivors but one person had died.
The search and rescue operation was...
Suva, FIJI — Fiji's government says efforts are being made to repatriate its citizens stranded in the Middle East due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Prime Minister's Office said while the government had been able to repatriate on family, there are others who remain in the region who want to get home...
Apia, SAMOA — A 14 year old boy from Falevao has died from injuries sustained after his father used a ‘amo’ or tree branch, to beat him.
Responding to questions from Samoa Global News, Deputy Police Commissioner Papalii Monalisa Tiai-Keti confirmed that a 62 year old male of Falevao and Falefa has...
Apia, SAMOA — The first repatriation flight from the United States to Samoa this month, since the start of Covid-19 travel restrictions, will be bringing back 150 sailors stranded overseas.
TV1 Samoa reported most of the sailors had been stranded onboard ships in Europe, the Carribean and US but...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Tourism in the South Pacific has been hit hard by COVID-19 border closures with thousands of people out of work.
Tourism normally provides one in four jobs in Vanuatu and one in three jobs in Cook Islands. It contributes between 20% and 70% of the GDP of countries spanning...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment through its meteorological division are predicting a probable six to eight cyclones throughout the Pacific region within the next few months.
Naturally for our part of the region, the latter months of the year and continuing to the...
Apia, SAMOA — The 12th repatriation flight into Samoa arrived on Friday with more than 300 passengers from Auckland, New Zealand.
TV1Samoa reports the passengers have now all been sent to quarantine at various locations around the country for the next fortnight.
Some returning families have been...