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![The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Secretary-General, Dame Meg Taylor. [Photo: RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Forum%20Sec%20Gen%20%20copy.jpg?itok=IcuwPY4A "The Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat Secretary-General, Dame Meg Taylor. [Photo: RNZI]")
The secretary general of the Pacific Islands Forum says Pacific countries need to realise they make up an ocean continent.
Speaking ahead of the 48th Pacific leaders meeting in Samoa next week, Dame Meg Taylor said island countries needed to be more aware of their collective size and strength and...
!['Akilisi Pohiva [Photo: RNZ/Koro Vaka'uta]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/eight_col_pohiva%20copy.jpg?itok=T54y1QGQ "'Akilisi Pohiva [Photo: RNZ/Koro Vaka'uta]")
The interim Prime Minister of Tonga, 'Akilisi Pohiva, has welcomed the reasons given for the Kings decision to dissolve parliament and to call an early election
King Tupou VI made the decision last week without giving reasons after the Speaker of the House, Lord Tu'ivakano, approached him with...
![Jane Stevens, who lost her son to suicide, says the latest suicide statistics show the system is failing. [Photo: Supplied to RNZ]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/suicide.jpg?itok=YawQUZFw "Jane Stevens, who lost her son to suicide, says the latest suicide statistics show the system is failing. [Photo: Supplied to RNZ]")
A mother who lost a child to suicide is calling for urgent change after it was revealed more than 600 New Zealanders took their own lives in the year to June.
Figures released today by Chief Coroner Deborah Marshall show the highest annual number of suicide deaths since the statistics were first...
![The speaker of Tonga's Parliament Lord Tuʻivakanō. [Photo: RNZ/Daniela Maoate-Cox]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/tonga%20speaker%20copy.jpg?itok=plquLsGw "The speaker of Tonga's Parliament Lord Tuʻivakanō. [Photo: RNZ/Daniela Maoate-Cox]")
The speaker of Tonga's parliament says he had to ask the King to dissolve parliament as the government was working to concentrate power within cabinet.
Lord Tu'ivakano approached King Tupou last week, who called a snap election.
In a four page statement, Lord Tu'ivakano said he had been concerned...
The director general of the Forum Fisheries Agency has called for continued unity in managing the Pacific's tuna industry.
ames Movick's call follows some countries in the region questioning future management of the fishery given the inclusion of French Pacific territories in the Pacific Islands...
![A rare skink thought to be extinct in Niue has been found again, alive and well on the island. Called the Olive Tree skink, the reptile is endemic to Niue and American Samoa. [Photo: 123rf via RNZI]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Olive%20Tree%20skink46712079_l.jpg?itok=6gi3gOZD "A rare skink thought to be extinct in Niue has been found again, alive and well on the island. Called the Olive Tree skink, the reptile is endemic to Niue and American Samoa. [Photo: 123rf via RNZI]")
REPORT OWNS UP TO EXISTENCE OF SAMOA’S SEX WORKERS
The Ministry of Health has made it a priority to educate and counsel “commercial sex workers” despite the government downplaying their existence.
The decision is revealed in a 98-page National HIV, AIDS, and STI Policy 2017-2022 report obtained by...
Paradise of Samoa, a Polynesian dance and culture nonprofit group based in Salem, began in 2006 with a question: Why didn’t something like it already exist?
“We were looking for a Polynesian group for our own children, and then we couldn’t find one,” said Tasi Keener, a co-founder. “So we created...
We should value our Samoan language and do the best we can to strengthen how it is used.
That is the message from the Chairperson of the Samoan Language Commission; Reverend Vaiao Alailima Eteuati.
He was speaking during a press conference to highlight the work of the Commission, especially in...
National GOP leaders repudiated the unequal citizenship of Americans living in the country’s territories during a meeting of the Republican National Committee on Friday in Nashville. The Republican National Committee did so with the passage of a resolution entitled “Affirming the Equal Citizenship...
![Tonga's Parliament building. [Photo: RNZ Pacific/Koro Vaka'uta]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/tonga%20parliament%20bldg%20copy.jpg?itok=R8QI0h-5 "Tonga's Parliament building. [Photo: RNZ Pacific/Koro Vaka'uta]")
On Thursday afternoon, a short one-page notice was published that caught many in Tonga off guard. King Tupou VI had dissolved parliament, effective from 5pm.
Months of frustrations with the government of Prime Minister 'Akilisi Pohiva had come to a head, and the Speaker of Parliament, Lord Tu'...