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Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata attended Wednesday’s historic meeting between Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, and a bipartisan delegation of Members of Congress. Notably, the meeting was the first on American soil between the President of...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — President and CEO of Starkist, Chae-Ung Um and his team met with Gov Lemanu P.S. Mauga, Chief of Staff Loa Tuimavave T. Laupola, and Reverend Mageo S. Mageo at the Governor’s Conference room on Tuesday morning, April 5, 2023, during the CEO’s recent visit to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Executive Branch cabinet members and ASG employees will return to testify during House of Representative hearings, after the suspension Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga enacted in an Apr. 06 memorandum has been resolved following a meeting with House Speaker Savali Talavou Ale....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Their Highnesses Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta’isi Efi and Masiofo Filifilia Tamasese took time out during their recent visit to the territory to meet with the Governor’s office staff last week Monday, April 3.
Tui Atua reminisced about his experience the previous weekend...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tafuna High School's Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program has been recognized for its outstanding performance, earning the highest percentage points among the five JROTC programs on island during the JROTC Program for Accreditation (JPA) on March 17.
In a...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — “Please hear and consider American Samoa’s strong objection to the designation of a Marine Sanctuary around the Pacific Remote Island Areas (PRIA),” wrote Gov. Lemanu P. S. Mauga in a Mar. 30 letter to U.S President Joe Biden.
Lemanu recalled for the President that this...
WASHINGTON D.C. — In American Samoa, the oceans are rising and the land is sinking.
Even the territory’s largest private employer — the StarKist tuna cannery that provides nearly 80% of all private employment — sits along the water’s edge, as well as one of the two American Samoa Power Authority (...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — During last week Tuesday’s session, Senate President Tuaolo Manaia Fruean announced the names of the three senators who will be part of American Samoa’s delegation to the “Atoa Samoa” talks — or inter Samoa talks — set in the territory this week on Apr. 12 and Apr. 13....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — (Each semester, ASCC instructor Mrs. Tala Ropeti-Leo gives the students in her Introduction to Psychology classes the assignment of formulating a group community service project. This gives the Psychology students a better understanding of the real challenges and need in...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Doctors, nurses and medical officials who are part of the subcommittee overseeing the plans for a new hospital are voicing their opposition to the project as it stands, citing that a free-standing specialty hospital “is likely to fail” and would have “high operational...