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KING OF TONGA AND OTHERS
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tongan Prime Minister Hu'akavameiliku Siaosi Sovaleni met King Tupou VI in Niuafo'ou as the two sides worked on ironing out differences that had surfaced in early February. While there has been no official update from either the Prime Minister's Office or the Royal Palace Office...
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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Department of the Interior on Monday released a press statement celebrating the finalization of amendments to the Compacts of Free Association, which would provide 20 years of new economic assistance. The $6.5 billion of assistance is critical for economic stability...
Dame Meg Taylor
Port Moresby, PNG — Papua New Guinea's Dame Meg Taylor has been an athlete, lawyer, and diplomat as well as the first woman secretary-general of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) from 2014-2021. Speaking to RNZ Pacific this week about International Women's Day — today, March 8 — Dame Meg reflected on...
purple colored sky
Honolulu, HAWAII — A vibrant purple haze over the Hamakua Coast was seen by Hawaii Island residents during sunset over the weekend. Weather experts explain the colorful sky is due to the way light bounces off of atmospheric particles. The weather that evening was cloudy and the atmosphere was full...
Congresswoman Uifa’atali Amata
Washington, D.C. — The co-chairs of the bipartisan House Pacific Islands Caucus are hailing House passage of legislation that renews and funds the Compacts of Free Association (COFA). The Compacts are the foundation for U.S. relations with the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States...
La'auli Leuatea Schmidt in the Samoa Parliament
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries La'auli Leuatea Schmidt says the country would not be ruled by outsiders, should a change to the electoral act go through. This week, the ruling Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) tabled the Electoral Amendment Bill 2024 in Parliament...
BREADFRUIT
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A bill, which would let Samoans living overseas register to vote online was to be tabled in Samoa's parliament on Tuesday. But, they would still need to complete their registration in Samoa to get their fingerprints scanned and their photo taken. The Samoa Observer...
Prime Minister Feleti Teo
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Tuvalu's newly elected prime minister Feleti Teo says he will look to review the country's development and cooperation agreement with Australia. The Falepili Treaty signed last year by former Tuvalu PM Kausea Natano and Australia's Anthony Albanese provides a pathway to...
measles posters
Boulder, COLORADO — “You don’t count your children until the measles has passed.” Dr. Samuel Katz, one of the pioneers of the first measles vaccine in the late 1950s to early 1960s, regularly heard this tragic statement from parents in countries where the measles vaccine was not yet available,...
drugs being traded at the market
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa’s deputy police commissioner Papalii Monalisa Tia'i-Keti says police are concerned that drugs were found at Fugalei Market just a short distance away from an all girl's primary school. Samoa Observer reports police conducted three drug raids in Apia last week...

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