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Honolulu, HAWAII — Hawaiian Airlines is bringing Mananalu, the water company founded by Hawaiʻi environmental activist and celebrity Jason Momoa, to its Premium Cabins to replace plastic water bottles with infinitely recyclable aluminum bottles.
Starting Thursday, April 21, , Hawaiʻi’s hometown...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Skywatchers in the 2Samoas have the opportunity to see not one but two planetary conjunctions during the month of April in a bonus for budding astronomers.
Members of the public were able to see the visible conjunction of the quartet over the eastern horizon at predawn...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Ministry of Health (M.O.H.) has reported another COVID-19 related death and 362 new community cases to push the country's total to over 6,000 cases.
The M.O.H. report also confirmed one more COVID-19 fatality in the last 48 hours, taking the total number of coronavirus deaths...
Independence, MISSOURI — The Independence Samoan-English Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Independence Ebenezer Spanish Seventh-day Adventist Church in Independence, Missouri, United States, currently provide food for about 200 families each month through their mobile food pantry.
In 2019, the...
Lautoka, FIJI — Fiji police are investigating the arrival of a luxury vessel owned by a Russian oligarch, questioning its captain about how he brought the boat to the Pacific island nation without customs clearance.
Fiji newspapers reported that police had seized the superyacht Amadea, owned by a...
Apia, SAMOA — Point blank, Secretary to Cabinet Agafili Tomaimanō Shem Leo has laid to rest rumors that Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa was tested positive for COVID19 earlier this week.
During a press conference Thursday Agafili labeled the rumors “untrue and unfounded”.
He had met the Prime...
Belleview, WASHINGTON — Tri Marine, a global leading tuna supply company, was recently recognized as the first tuna trading company in the world to obtain ISO 22005:2007 certification from the leading certification body DNV which focuses on the traceability in the feed and food chain.
It was also...
Apia, SAMOA — Based on the latest official data released by Samoa’s Director General of Health Leausa Samau Dr. Take Naseri during a joint press conference Thursday this week with National Emergency Operation Center, (N.E.O.C.) Chairman Agafili Tomaimanō Shem Leo, paper its deadly frightening to...
Sydney, AUSTRALIA — A tribute has been paid to Evander Tuala, who died after allegedly being punched in the head during a brawl in Sydney over the weekend.
The 23-year-old suffered critical head injuries after fighting broke out outside the Oxford Hotel and died in hospital on Monday night.
Police...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa police have confirmed the death of the country's most notorious drug dealer,Tagaloasa Filipaina Faisauvale, who had been battling a terminal illness, in hospital.
In and out of prison on drugs charges since the 1970s, Tagaloasā was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder...