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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoa woman in her late 20s freed herself after she says she was kidnapped, assaulted, and tied to an iron pole.
After members of her husband’s family, who were her alleged captors fell asleep, she managed to escape.
She reportedly then fled to a nearby household whose...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American sailors and personnel from nine other nations recently wrapped up a two-week exercise in the South Pacific island nation of Samoa as part of an annual U.S. Navy humanitarian mission. The sailors, along with personnel from Samoa, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Child and adolescent obesity is soaring in Polynesia and there is no quick fix, according to an eminent Pacific health leader.
The most obese 5-19-year-olds globally live in three Pacific Island nations, a UNICEF report found.
The report, Feeding Profit: How Food...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A Samoan caregiver is using social media to highlight the realities of caring for someone with dementia.
Sapini Unoi and his mother Mutalau have gained thousands of followers on their TikTok account.
Unoi describes their online platform as his "love letter to Mum",...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas joined together on Monday to issue a written opinion disputing the view that the “Territories Clause” of the U.S. Constitution provides Congress with “plenary power” over residents of U.S. territories.
The...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A feral rooster lands upon a Range Officer for a sip from his water bottle at the Koko Head Public Shooting Range in Hawaii Kai, Hawaii.
For decades the feral chickens have been looked after by Hawaii's Shooting Community, who are there to develop their precision...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific civil society groups say 2025 has been a big year for the ocean.
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN) representative Maureen Penjueli said the Pacific Ocean is being hyper-militarized and there is a desire for seabed minerals to be used to...
APIA, Samoa — Pacific Partnership 2025 hosted a Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) key leadership symposium, Oct. 23-24, bringing together Samoan national leaders and representatives from partner nations including Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, and the United States.
This two-day conference...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa has an exciting new literary voice with the upcoming publication of Am I There Yet?, the debut short story collection by Samoan poet, educator, and proud fa’afafine author Nicki Perese.
The collection takes its name from the opening story, a piece that sets the emotional tone...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — There is still not enough known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start in the Cook Islands, an ocean scientist with the government authority in charge of seabed minerals says.
The Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority (SBMA) returned last week from a...