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Apia, SAMOA — The Ministry of Health in its latest COVID-19 situational report confirmed 56 positive cases within the period commencing from July 03 to 05 of July 2022. These cases include 54 new community cases and 2 new imported cases, taking the total number of cases (community and border) to 15...
Sydney, AUSTRALIA — Australia's main airline, Qantas, has announced direct flights to and from Samoa.
The airline's website said travel to Samoa from Australia is only approved for Samoan citizens, permit holders, and approved contracted workers.
Last month Qantas applied for its licence to travel...
Apia, SAMOA — A man police believe shot dead a father and son on Savaii in Samoa has been charged with two counts of murder.
It happened at Fogapoa on Savaii on Thursday evening after a dispute over land escalated
Acting Police Commissioner Papalii Monalisa Keti said immediately after the shootings...
Honolulu, HAWAII — In a vast ocean area with around 30,000 known islands, traditional navigators of the Pacific have been known to say, 'first you choose your destination, then you figure out how to get there'.
The health of our ocean and all who depend on it are facing a multitude of threats. If...
Apia, SAMOA — A one-year toddler has been recorded as the latest and youngest COVID-19-related death in Samoa.
The Ministry of Health has confirmed the death, which brings the COVID death toll in Samoa to 29.
The report said the one-year-old girl died of severe pneumonia and was not eligible for...
HONOLULU (AP) — A Russian-owned superyacht seized by the United States arrived in Honolulu Harbor on Thursday flying an American flag.
The U.S. last week won a legal battle in Fiji to take the $325 million vessel and immediately sailed it to Hawaii.
The FBI has linked the Amadea to the Russian...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — The New Zealand Herald is reporting a Samoan man convicted of sexually violating a girl for several years beginning when she was 3 years old has lost his appeal against deportation.
Tupou Ogosi, a New Zealand resident, was issued with a deportation order last August...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) has announced $652,970 in fiscal year 2022 Technical Assistance Program funds to support three one-stop centers that provide assistance to underserved Pacific Islander communities in Arkansas and Hawai’i, including those...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa Observer is reporting Qantas Airways Limited has applied to Samoa's Ministry for Works Transport and Infrastructure to fly two routes between two Australian east coast cities and Samoa.
The interest shown by one of the world's largest airlines to service the Samoa-Australia...
Apia, SAMOA — A pioneering survey of popular political attitudes in the Pacific – the Pacific Attitudes Survey (PAS) Samoa – was released Thursday, June 9 in Apia.
The PAS gauges the views of ordinary Samoan citizens on a range of questions related to democracy, economics, governance, tradition,...