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![The dramatic moment the baby was rescued after five days down a 2.4m drain where he was left by his mother in November 2014. [photo / supplied]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dfg_480x270.jpg?itok=UrQJjPrp "The dramatic moment the baby was rescued after five days down a 2.4m drain where he was left by his mother in November 2014. [photo / supplied]")
She was a young woman from the islands with a pretty face living far away from her deeply religious Samoan parents when she secretly became pregnant to her first Australian boyfriend.
Then aged 30, she worked at a food storage warehouse in northwestern Sydney, just a 20-minute drive from the home...
Samoa police have charged a mission school teacher over having sexual connection with two female students.The police spokesperson says the alleged victims, aged 15 and 18, are from the same school.
Meanwhile, the police are investigating a woman's complaint against the police after her husband...
![Defendant Mauga Precious Chang with her attorney exiting the courthouse. [photo: JL]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Precious%20Mauga.jpg?itok=NZPPN18G "Defendant Mauga Precious Chang with her attorney exiting the courthouse. [photo: JL]")
Apia, SAMOA — Attorneys will battle before the Supreme Court next week to determine who will prosecute in the case against suspended National Prosecution Office (NPO) Director Precious Mauga who is facing two charges in connection with a traffic incident — whether it’s Simativa Perese an attorney...
When I was a child, my parents hit me with a salu. A salu is the hard part of the coconut leaf — you take away the leaf and tie them together, just like a whip. Most Samoan families had a salu around the house. It was meant to be for cleaning rubbish, but was always used for punishment whenever a...
BLUE SKY SALE IS A BUSINESS MOVE
Apia, SAMOA — The sale of Bluesky Communications to Fijian-owned company Amalgamated Telecom Holding Limited, is but a business move and no matter who buys Bluesky, the Samoa Government is still a shareholder, says Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s Attorney General's Office has defended their move to hire independent prosecutors in the criminal matters filed separately against Samoa’s Police Commissioner Fuiavailili Egon Keil and Director of the National Prosecution Office (NPO) Mauga Precious Chang.
Fuiavailili is...
Apia, SAMOA — The United Nations Women’s Trust Fund for Gender Equality (FGE) is behind the newly established program in Samoa — “Economic Empowerment of Nofotane Women” in rural Samoa. Nofotane is the term used for women who are married into the family. In the Samoan culture these nofotane are...
TEUILA FESTIVAL OFFICIALLY KICKED OFF SUNDAY NIGHT
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s popular Teuila Festival officially kicked off last night with choral exhibitions from church choirs from all over of Samoa.
According to Samoa’s Tourism Authority, the Teuila Festival established in 1991 has grown to become...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Barack Obama expanded the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii by 442,781 square miles. Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Congresswoman Aumua Amata (American Samoa) issued the following statements: “The sweeping...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has called American Samoans “losers” for not taking up the challenge to participate in Samoa’s annual Teuila Festival fautasi race. He said in Samoan that he expected six fetus’s from Tutuila but they are all losers except for one...