![Ele Opeloge of Samoa competes in the women's +75 kg weightlifting event during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 16, 2008. [Photo: AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE via RNZI]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/Ele%20lifting.jpg?itok=L_cs_FbP "Ele Opeloge of Samoa competes in the women's +75 kg weightlifting event during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on August 16, 2008. [Photo: AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE via RNZI]")
Samoa's first ever Olympic medal has come as a bittersweet victory according to the president of the country's weightlifting federation.
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Local residents are being asked to contact the local Department of Public Safety (DPS) with any information regarding this man: Twenty-eight-year-old Tinifanu Leulu Leuea of Tafuna who has been mis
Le Afioga i le Tama a Aitu ma Tagata ia Lualemaga Faoa ina ua fa'apaia le nofo o le Susuga i le Tama Matua ia Tuiolemotu Vaitagaloa o le AIga Aitulagi, Malaeloa Tesema 23, 2016. [ata: THA]
Le Faatonusili o le Ofisa o Pulega o Taulaga ma Malaevaalele ia Taimalelagi Dr. Claire Poumele i le taimi na ia fa’amalamalama ai i luma o le Kapeneta le tulaga o le va’a fou mo Manu’a lea ua fuafua e taunu’u mai i le masina fou. [ata AF]
O le malaga a le kovana ma lana faigamalo lea na fuafua mo le itumalo o Manu’a i le vaiaso nei, mo le fa’amoemoe e fa’apaia ai le va’a fou mo Manu’a atoa ai ma le fa’aulufaleina o ni isi o galuega
Ua fa’ailoa e le afioga i le ali’i kovana i lana Kapeneta le i ai lea o ni suiga ua la fuafua ma le afioga a Lemanu Peleti Mauga e faia, mo le tofiaina o totino o Komiti Fa’afoe a Vaega eseese o le
Sui o le Ofisa o le Initeria i Amerika Samoa, Lydia Faleafine-Nomura i le taimi na tula’i ai i le fono a le Kapeneta e fa’afetaia le kovana ona o le avanoa sa latou galulue fa’atasi ai i le 4 tausaga ua tuana’i atu. [ata AF]
O le fonotaga mulimuli a le afioga i le ali’i kovana ia Lolo Matalasi Moliga ma lana Kapeneta i le vaiaso na te’a nei, na fa’afetaia fa’apitoa ai e le ali’i kovana le sui o le Ofisa o le Initeria i
Of the 16 men and women taken into custody by police during the three-day Christmas holiday, none of them were charged with any serious crimes or involved in serious cases where someone was hurt or
Good news for aspiring college students in the territory.