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Apia, SAMOA — Police in Samoa have been filmed destroying almost 300 confiscated firearms by crushing them with a road roller.
The video, taken by Samoa Planet this morning, shows the roller moving slowly over the long line of 285 guns.
Earlier, Commissioner Fuiavailiili Egon Keil invited media to...
Apia, SAMOA — A gun used as evidence in a Samoan Police case, that was stolen from a lock up more than six years ago has resurfaced.
Police Commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil has confirmed that the gun was discovered during investigations into a different matter, but he did not say where it...
Apia, SAMOA — Cabinet is not asleep at the wheel.
In fact, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr. Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has reassured that if “Samoa’s boat sinks,” as the “Captain of the boat,” he will be the first one to know.
The Prime Minister made the point in Parliament last week when he was responding...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's capital has a newly upgraded port facility at Matautu.
The US$30-million project to improve safety and efficiency at Apia's main port has taken two years and was opened this week by the Japanese ambassador to Samoa, Shinya Aioki.
The Samoa Observer reports that the project is...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Immigration New Zealand (INZ) assistant general manager Jeannie Melville says a record 16,500 registrations were received this year for the Samoan Quota, with only 1,100 places available for Samoan nationals.
Those who are successful in being drawn from the ballot will be...
Apia, SAMOA — The Congregational Christian Church of Samoa says their defiant stance against the government's taxing of ministers won't change in the near future.
The church has responded to a letter from the Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi telling them the law will stand by saying if "...
CHANGCHUN, (Xinhua) — A medical team of six on Friday headed to Samoa in the south Pacific Ocean.
The team from the First Bethune Hospital of Jilin University based in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, boarded on a plane Friday and will stay in Samoa for six months.
"It's an...
San Francisco, CA — There are the 50 states, of course, but there are 14 territories in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands that are also part of the United States. One of those is American Samoa.
U.S. missionaries, and the military, Arrived there in the 1800s, and by the turn of the century the...
Apia, SAMOA — The $1.9 million paid monthly to the Computer Services Ltd (CSL) remained unexplained by the Minister of Finance, Sili Epa despite being questioned in Parliament last Thursday.
The issue was raised by the Member of Parliament for Anoama’a West, Lauofo Pierre Lauofo who quoted the...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The tap, tap, tapping of a computer keyboard is probably not what you would normally associate with Polynesian design and tattoos.
But it is the chosen tool for Auckland based artist Vaimaila Urale whose contemporary take on tatau involves the use of four traditional Samoan...