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Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Compromised devices that were part of a “botnet” controlled by a Chinese company have been found in New Zealand, leading our spy agency to join international partners in calling out “malicious cyber agencies”.
Intelligence agencies from the Five Eyes nations yesterday...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A young couple in Solomon Islands could face life in prison after being charged with allegedly killing their seven-month-old unborn baby in Isabel province.
Police in Buala, the provincial capital, are investigating the alleged abortion and subsequent burial of the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A rare bird in Papua New Guinea that was last officially documented 55 years ago has finally been captured again on camera.
The New Britain Goshawk was snapped in the Nakanai Ranges by Fiji-based photographer Tom Vierus.
"I was on a scoping trip with WWF in Pomio [...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The report by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) in collaboration with the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), presents a sobering evaluation of Samoa's environmental conditions.
According to Samoa Observer, this latest...
Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND — An exhibition in Christchurch marked 50-years since the Dawn Raids period started and three years since the historic apology but one of the artists says there's still more work to be done.
Josiah Tualamali'i, who made a documentary for the Fibre Gallery's Lotogatasi o...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Selau Mailata's first taste of the food industry was through a work experience program at a baked beans factory.
Over 27 years later, he's still in the kitchen, now as a private chef and working in cafes.
"Who would have thought, you know, 20-plus years ago [I'd be]...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — More of the plans have been revealed for King Charles and Queen Camilla's Samoa trip next month.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa is the first the King will attend as Head of the Commonwealth. Samoa's Prime Minister Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa, in a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa have formally presented a proposal to the world's highest court this week, asking for an amendment to its principle treaty to include a crime of ecocide.
Vanuatu's special envoy for climate change Ralp Regenvanu said they were the first nation to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa crowned its representative for the 2025 Miss Pacific Islands beauty pageant over the weekend, while Fiji's capital Suva crowned its representative for the Miss Fiji Pageant in December.
Litara Ieremaia-Allan, 24, was crowned Miss Samoa, in Apia, on Saturday....
NGĀRUAWĀHIA, New Zealand (AP) — They came in their thousands in the freezing dawn, parking cars far away and winding down rural roads on foot, children riding on their shoulders. They arrived in mourning black with crowns of ferns and kawakawa leaves, bone carvings or wedges of deep green pounamu...