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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In what's believed to be a first, a new exhibition underway in Nelson is dedicated entirely to the mountain daisy Tikumu, once a taonga for weavers the knowledge of weaving techniques had almost been lost.
"The beauty in tikumu is that it's not like harakeke that grows...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Samoa Observer is reporting that Samoa Police have said they are not aware that the wanted Sydney alleged murder suspect, Anthony Pele, is currently in Samoa, despite information received by the Observer suggesting he is in the country.
Pele, a Sydney underworld...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the U.S. government prepares to auction off slices of the seabed in federal waters, experts, including the former director of the federal agency overseeing deep-sea mining, say the regulations that would govern this activity are outdated and lack important oversight...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's national hospital is rationing critical medicine due to a low supply, with outside help offering temporary relief.
Last week, the Health Ministry received an urgent air freight shipment from Fiji-based Pacific Specialist Healthcare (PSH), covering only about half...
HONOLULU — The Scientific and Statistical Committee (SSC) of the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council completed its review of several key fisheries science and management issues at its meeting last week.
The SSC endorsed the 2026 American Samoa Bottomfish Stock Assessment Update as...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The briefing, What does 'Consent of the Governed' mean in U.S. territories? was organized in coordination with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and held on June 4th at the U.S. Senate. Congressman Pablo José Hernández (D-PR)...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Tsunami Warning Centre issued advisories for parts of the Pacific following a massive earthquake in the Philippines.
The magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck at a depth of 63km at Mindanao.
The warning center forecast tsunami waves to be less than 0.3 meters above the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Marshall Islands President Dr Hilda Heine has told a high-level forum in Japan that island states need greater access to finance, and technology to better manage their oceans.
Heine is among a handful of Pacific leaders — including Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Women often apologize when there is nothing to apologize for. But do women need to apologize less — or should everyone apologize more?
Gabriela Cryan, a 23-year-old who works in sales in the US once apologized for bringing the wrong coffee order to her colleagues at work...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tonga's Deputy Prime Minister Viliame Latu has been acquitted in an electoral bribery case.
Kaniva Tonga reports that a former cabinet minister alleged he paid a town officer a substantial sum during the election campaign last November.
However, the Supreme Court...