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Courses will be offered at the University of the South Pacific (USP), Australian Pacific Technical College (APTC) and the National University of Samoa (NUS) for more than 700 Yazaki employees to prepare them for future job opportunities after their current employer Yazaki EDS Samoa shuts down next...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Afamasaga Rico Tupa’i is calling on current Blue Sky Samoa employees “to put your faith in the hands of God, not in the hands of people at Amalgamated Telecom Holdings (ATH). At the same time he made it clear that the word...
MILESTONE IN SAMOA, DIRECT FLIGHTS FROM CHINA TO SAMOA SIGNED
Apia, SAMOA — An Air Service Agreement has been signed between the Samoa Government and the Chinese Government Monday morning regarding direct flights from Beijing, China and Faleolo International Airport. Signed by the Ambassador of...
![Islands such as Samoa are in the middle of nowhere, but people have been living on them for thousands of years. Now researchers have traced settlers' likely journeys. photo: Ann Johansson / Corbis / Getty Images]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/251016_oceaniamigration_1.jpg?itok=UbzWl1Te "Islands such as Samoa are in the middle of nowhere, but people have been living on them for thousands of years. Now researchers have traced settlers' likely journeys. photo: Ann Johansson / Corbis / Getty Images]")
Around 3,400 years ago, humans made the intrepid journey to one of the most remote places on Earth – the islands of Oceania. How did that prehistoric population traverse such a huge expanse of ocean to colonise this region? And more importantly, where did they come from?
Researchers led by Alvaro...
TODDLER BURNED TO DEATH AFTER HOUSE CAUGHT ON FIRE
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s police are investigating the death of a one-year old toddler who was burned to death when their home caught fire in Lauli’i, Samoa over the weekend.
Superintendent and Police Spokesperson Su’a LeMamea Tiumalu confirmed with...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa’s Ministry of Police is currently investigated three homicide cases and one severe traffic accident, according to the weekly Police Press Conference , with their Spokesperson, Su’a LeMamea Tiumalu saying that deaths seem to increase by the month.
He said two men from Aele were...
Apia, SAMOA —The two young men who were arrested and charged in connection with being gang members in Samoa have been sentenced. Alesana Levi and Sio Lameko, who are both 18-years old were each facing one count of carrying out an unlawful assembly or being involved in a gang.
The defendants pleaded...
![[photo: Undercurrent News]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Canned-tuna-265x296.jpg?itok=BorKaVE3 "[photo: Undercurrent News]")
The wide discrepancy between canned tuna finished goods and skipjack raw material prices mean Tri Marine International’s American Samoa plant is unlikely to be the last to close, sources in the sector told Undercurrent News.
On Oct. 13, Tri Marine announced it will cease production at its Samoa...
![The Hawai‘i Lodging & Tourism Association, the state’s largest private-sector hospitality trade organization, has donated and installed 32 room air-conditioners in 16 classrooms at Jefferson Elementary School in Waikiki — the project is dubbed “Project Cool”. HLTA president and CEO is Mufi Hahnemann. [photo: Barry Markowitz]](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/HLTA%20Cool%20Projectweb.jpg?itok=S_faWpHC "The Hawai‘i Lodging & Tourism Association, the state’s largest private-sector hospitality trade organization, has donated and installed 32 room air-conditioners in 16 classrooms at Jefferson Elementary School in Waikiki — the project is dubbed “Project Cool”. HLTA president and CEO is Mufi Hahnemann. [photo: Barry Markowitz]")
Honolulu, Hawai’i — The Hawai‘i Lodging & Tourism Association, the state’s largest private-sector hospitality trade organization, has donated and installed 32 room air-conditioners in 16 classrooms at Jefferson Elementary School in Waikiki.
Completion of this volunteer effort, dubbed “Project...
SMALL-SCALE CANNING GETS A BOOST
Just as canning in American Samoa is going bust, the first regional training for small-scale tuna canning entrepreneurs in the Pacific started in Majuro. The training aims to certify prospective canners so that small domestic commercial tuna canning operations can...