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![Aucklander Anna Firdousi had to fly home from Samoa to Auckland via Sydney. [Photo/Supplied]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/QKM66GVP3RAFDONUVIQOYFV5NI.jpg?itok=lzll4Iuw "Aucklander Anna Firdousi had to fly home from Samoa to Auckland via Sydney. [Photo/Supplied]")
Passengers caught up in Sunday's fuel crisis have described hours-long delays, cancellations and flight switches in their struggle to get to their destinations.
Auckland woman Anna Firdousi was among passengers affected over the weekend after a fuel pipeline burst leaving Auckland Airport with only...
![Artist Lureen Cascara helps Koa Kaeka Baptista, 9, with his painting while Michelle Florido helps her son Tristan, 3, and Corinne Ebias, 9, with their painting during the Aloha Festival at the Napa Valley Expo on Saturday. [Maria Sestet, Napa Valley Register]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/alohafestival.jpg?itok=wQAhz-w3 "Artist Lureen Cascara helps Koa Kaeka Baptista, 9, with his painting while Michelle Florido helps her son Tristan, 3, and Corinne Ebias, 9, with their painting during the Aloha Festival at the Napa Valley Expo on Saturday. [Maria Sestet, Napa Valley Register]")
For some, the Napa Valley Aloha Festival is just a fun thing to do over the weekend, but for others, attendance is almost mandatory.
“It’s the experience of home,” said Song Pisimata. “To me, it’s like a big family reunion.”
Pisimata lives in Concord now, but he grew up in American Samoa....
Thai Union Group, the owner of the Chicken of the Sea US shelf stable seafood brand, confirmed it’s US division is the whistleblower in the probe of price fixing in the tuna sector from the country’s Department of Justice (DOJ).
In a Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) notice, Thai Union said it would...
![JAILED: Taseni Tarzan Savea. [Samoa Observer]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/images%7Ccms-image-000030769%20copy.jpg?itok=ubb3m6e2 "JAILED: Taseni Tarzan Savea. [Samoa Observer]")
A man found guilty of raping his girlfriend’s younger sister has been jailed for four years and eight months.
The name of the victim and details that could lead to her identification have been suppressed by Justice Tafaoimalo Leilani Tuala-Warren.
Fatumanavaupolu Ofisa Tagaloa appeared on behalf of...
![Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi [SN file photo]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoaPM_17.jpg?itok=sy2iy1wS "Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi [SN file photo]")
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi is not overly concerned about being ruthlessly attacked online.
With Samoa embracing the age of fast internet technology, he knows the transition will bring many benefits, as well as many challenges.
Such challenges include anonymous online bloggers...
![Pastor of the Everlasting Gospel Church in Flaxmere, Faaofo Fomai as he drives from Hastings District Court. Fomai and his church each face four charges in a case involving a man that claims the minister treated him like a 'slave'. See Pacific Briefs for details. [Photo: John Cowpland/ Stuff NZ]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/church%20minister.jpg?itok=itsjdxh3 "Pastor of the Everlasting Gospel Church in Flaxmere, Faaofo Fomai as he drives from Hastings District Court. Fomai and his church each face four charges in a case involving a man that claims the minister treated him like a 'slave'. See Pacific Briefs for details. [Photo: John Cowpland/ Stuff NZ]")
AMATA RELEASES STATEMENT ON STARKIST
Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017 - Congresswoman Aumua Amata released a statement on the news that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced an agreement with StarKist Co. and its...
![McDonald’s Miss Samoa contestants with members of Samoa Events Incorporated, that hosted the pageant. [Samoa Observer]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Miss%20Samoa%20contestants%20copy.jpg?itok=zIQzWS8g "McDonald’s Miss Samoa contestants with members of Samoa Events Incorporated, that hosted the pageant. [Samoa Observer]")
A large crowd gathered at Tuanaimato to witness the crowning of Alexandra Iakopo as the new Miss Samoa.
The 23-year-old from Sapapali’i, Fusi Safotulafai and Moamoa overcame the challenge from eight other contestants to walk away with the title.
Ms. Iakopo is the second youngest in a family of...
![Baroness Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary General, speaks to the media during the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games Opening on July 17, 2017 in Nassau, Bahamas. [Photo: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images/AFP]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/commonwealth%20secretary%20gen.jpg?itok=iMbDNOfK "Baroness Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary General, speaks to the media during the 2017 Commonwealth Youth Games Opening on July 17, 2017 in Nassau, Bahamas. [Photo: Mark Kolbe/Getty Images/AFP]")
PACIFIC TO BAN NORTH KOREAN FISHING BOATS
Pacific Islands Forum countries say they'll work to ban North Korean fishing vessels from their waters.
North Korea has tested nuclear warheads and threatened the United States Pacific territory of Guam in recent weeks, which the forum countries have...
![[screenshot from Observer video]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/miss%20Samoa%202017%20pageant.jpg?itok=vd_ZQRq- "[screenshot from Observer video]")
Your new Miss Samoa is Alexandra Iakopo.
The 23-year-old from Sapapali’i, Fusi Safotulafai and Moamoa was crowned during the finale of the McDonald’s Miss Samoa Pageant at Gym 1 last night.
She takes over from former Miss Samoa, Pricilla Olano.
The crowning capped off an amazing run by the Miss...
![Dongwon Enterprise chairman Jae-chul Kim [photo: Undercurrent News]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dongwon%20chairman.jpg?itok=wv5Y8XEa "Dongwon Enterprise chairman Jae-chul Kim [photo: Undercurrent News]")
Starkist under ‘direct control’ of Dongwon’s chairman Kim during price-fixing years, lawsuits allege
Dongwon Enterprise chairman Jae-chul Kim, a legend in the tuna sector, directly controlled US subsidiary and tuna brand Starkist Co during the years of the alleged price-fixing conspiracy, a new wave of class-action lawsuits against the big players in the sector claim.
Two lawsuits filed on Aug. 29...