![ASG Commerce Department director, Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Lafaele%206495_13.jpg?itok=YopmaByz "ASG Commerce Department director, Keniseli Lafaele [SN file photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 2017 Economic Census, which is carried out every five years, officially got underway this past week as the US Census Bureau began notifying businesses natio
![DEVELOPING LITERACY RATE: The Rotary Club of Apia donated 600 reading books for the Samoa Returnees Charitable Trust of Samoa to assist in their literacy program. [Samoa Observer]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/samoa%20rotaryweb.jpg?itok=soSL31oy "DEVELOPING LITERACY RATE: The Rotary Club of Apia donated 600 reading books for the Samoa Returnees Charitable Trust of Samoa to assist in their literacy program. [Samoa Observer]")
Apia, SAMOA — The Rotary Club of Apia has come to the assistance of the Samoa Returnees Charitable Trust (S.R.C.T.) in their request for educational material to complement their weekly literacy pro
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Honolulu, HAWAII — Hawaii has become the first American state to pass a bill banning the sale of any sunscreens that have chemicals known to harm coral reefs.
![A cook arranges his roast pork, duck and chicken offerings at the Food Loft, Woodlands, Singapore. [photo: Barry Markowitz, 5/1/18]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Singapore%20food.jpg?itok=VF4SnuRS "A cook arranges his roast pork, duck and chicken offerings at the Food Loft, Woodlands, Singapore. [photo: Barry Markowitz, 5/1/18]")
SINGAPORE — Singapore is a delight in so many ways. As an island nation near the equator, Singapore has much in common with our Samoas.
PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — The number of homes destroyed by lava shooting out of openings in the ground created by Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano climbed to five as some of the more than 1,700 people who evacu
O le taeao po o le aso Lua, o se va'aiga lea i talo ua maua i le tatou maketi i Fagatogo. E ui lava ina nini'i ae o lo'o maua le fuauli mo se fa'alifu. Ua le toe va'aia le talo lapopo'a i le taimi nei, ua tatou o fa'atasi lava i tama nini'i. [ata: Leua Aiono Frost]
FA'ALETONU FUA O FA'AELEELEAGA - FOFOGA TAUMAFA ATUNU'U
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Ua poloaina e le Fa’amasinoga Maualuga le ali’i mai Fiti lea ua tausala i moliaga mamafa e 3 o le talepe fale i le tulaga lua, ina ia tuua le teritori ae toe foi atu i lona atunu’u pe afai ae mae’a
![Luki Te'etai Tuitasi and the crew from Public Works are shown in the Oct 2017 Samoa News file photo preparing the area in front of the Jean P. Hayden Museum, for the construction of a new 2-story structure that will provide more storage, office and display space for the Jean P. Hayden Museum. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/museum%20copy_1.jpg?itok=qZFYeOag "Luki Te'etai Tuitasi and the crew from Public Works are shown in the Oct 2017 Samoa News file photo preparing the area in front of the Jean P. Hayden Museum, for the construction of a new 2-story structure that will provide more storage, office and display space for the Jean P. Hayden Museum. [photo: Blue Chen-Fruean]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Jean P.
Saipan, CNMI — Consumers in the Northern Marianas have been warned against eating romaine lettuce due to the risk of bacterial infection and this warning could also apply to other Pacific
