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Apia, SAMOA — The U.S. Embassy and the Government of Samoa have announced a joint collaboration aimed at improving healthcare in Samoa. In a significant partnership, the U.S Army Reserve will soon be running the Soifua Manuia clinics at Poutasi District Hospital and Leulumoega District Hospital...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The creators of a first-of-its-kind Polynesian anime series have chosen to use the Japanese animation style to explore the voyaging legends of the Pacific.
Saimone Katoa, who is of Tongan and Samoan descent, is producing a first of its kind Polynesian anime exploring voyaging...
Apia, SAMOA — A Samoa PhD candidate and researcher has suggested a solution to concerns about traditional tattooing.
Last week, a top traditional Samoan Tufuga or tattooist, Su'a Suluape Petelo, said it was wrong for fa'afafine to wear the 'malu' and for women to wear the traditional male 'pe'a'....
Dunedin North, NEW ZEALAND — A drug-resistant infection is "a ticking time bomb" in the Pacific, according to new Otago University research.
A landmark study, just published in The Lancet Regional Health- Western Pacific journal, has found strains of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (...
Honolulu, HAWAII — A flight from Las Vegas to Honolulu, HI had to return to Harry Reid International Airport after the plane was struck by lightning.
Hawaiian Airlines confirmed that the flight took off at 6:25 p.m. Sunday from Harry Reid in route to Daniel K. Inouye International Airport. The...
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga Meteorology has declared a drought for the islands of Tongatapu and 'Eua, with alerts for Niuafo'ou and Niuatoputapu, and warnings for Ha'apai and Vava'u this month.
A rain deficit is forecast for the coming months as the impacts of an El Niño take hold across the region....
Apia, SAMOA — The first rising of the rare ocean delicacy 'palolo' is forecast to occur in the early hours of Friday, Oct. 6, for this year, according to the Samoa Meteorological Service.
The forecast is based on the lunar cycle or the moon phase which is the seventh day after the full moon in...
Washington, D.C. — A pair of Chinese scam artists wanted to turn a radiation-soaked Pacific atoll into a future metropolis. They ended up in an American jail instead. How they got there is an untold tale of international bribery and grifting that stretched to the very center of the United Nations....
Apia, SAMOA — US navy ship, USS Jackson, departed Samoa last Wednesday after a week-long mission, delivering aid and providing development assistance to communities across the country.
The vessel had a multinational force of sailors, engineers, medical specialists and musicians. It was part of an...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In an update on the case revolving around the 72-year-old man who was bashed and hogtied and carried like a pig through his village, the Lefagaoalii village matai charged with attempted murder remains in custody until at least Monday, Oct. 2, when his bail application...