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Apia, SAMOA — Samoans are being warned to take precautions over the next few days as the country continues to experience heavy and frequent rainfall.
The Samoa Observer reported the Samoa Meteorological Service's, Tumau Neru, saying a trough of low pressure is lying over Samoa and causing...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Alosio Taimo, the Auckland rugby coach on trial for sexually abusing boys, has been found guilty of most of the 106 charges laid against him.
The 55-year-old has been on trial in the High Court at Auckland for nine weeks.
This morning, after 17 hours of deliberations the...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Facebook’s community standards allow women to be abused and threatened, especially when that abuse is not in English.
This is according to Lani Wendt Young, a Samoan writer, editor, publisher and journalist, who was invited by Netsafe NZ to speak at the 2018 Trans-Tasman...
Apia, SAMOA — The second Pacific Tourism Insights Conference (P.T.I.C.) brought together 157 delegates from 95 organizations and 16 destinations to influence change and share their thoughts and ideas on the future of tourism in the Pacific.
Organized by the Pacific Asia Travel Association (P.A.T.A...
Kansas City, MO — A white woman in Kansas City was filmed shouting racial slurs at two men.
"So yesterday me and my homie Sam were out taking photos in the power and light district via KCMO when we overheard this lady say 'these f*****g n*****s' when we walked by. I told her not to say that, and...
Apia, SAMOA — The Police are investigating three separate deaths.
They involve a three-month-old baby, 11-month-old toddler and a 24-year-old man.
This was confirmed by the Police yesterday.
On 10 October 2018, the Police said they received a call from the Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital regarding...
Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND — The message that Pacific people affected by climate change would rather stay in their homes than become refugees in New Zealand was reiterated by a panel at Canterbury University on Thursday.
The panel in Christchurch discussed New Zealand's response to Pacific climate...
San Francisco, CA — StarKist Co. has agreed to plead guilty for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of packaged seafood sold in the United States, the Department of Justice announced Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018.
According to the USDOJ press release, a one-count felony charge filed today in the U.S....
Apia, SAMOA — Five hundred cartons of bananas set sail for New Zealand from Samoa just yesterday (17 October), which the industry hopes will pave the way for further commercial volumes.
The first commercial trial shipment will spend five days in transit before clearing New Zealand customs and...
Apia, SAMOA — Two former National Health Service workers in Samoa have been sentenced to jail after stealing paracetamol from the national hospital.
The pair last year stole an estimated $US4,000 worth of the pain-killer in six separate incidents.
TV1 Samoa reports the men pleaded guilty and were...