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Apia, SAMOA — Samoa is looking to build a Silicon Valley type Technology and Innovation Park facility so it can be the information and communications technology hub for the Pacific region.
Discussions and consultations on the project began in Apia this past week.
The Samoa Observer reports the...
Honolulu, HAWAII — The East West Center in Honolulu has appointed the first Native Hawaiian and first woman to lead the Center since it was founded in 1960.
The Center's Board of Governors has selected Suzanne Puanani Vares-Lum to be its next president.
A former Major General in the US Army, Ms...
Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Every year, a potential showdown looms between Pacific island countries and distant water fishing nations at the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) that happens early next month - over one issue or another.
This year is no...
(AP) — A majority of Pacific islanders say corruption is a problem in their governments, with significant numbers saying they have been offered bribes for their votes, according to a new survey released Tuesday by an anti-graft watchdog group.
Transparency International said its first-ever study of...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa government is planning a second nationwide lockdown for this Friday 19 November in efforts to attain 99 percent coverage of the Covid-19 vaccine. This while opposition to a similar program in American Samoa gains traction.
Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa said the latest...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Despite having one of the best vaccination rates in the country, Hawaii’s lieutenant governor says the state’s Safe Travels Program won’t end anytime soon.
“I don’t think Safe Travels goes away until the rest of the world has seen a great decrease in COVID,” he said. “My gut...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa government is planning a second nationwide lockdown for this Friday 19 November in efforts to attain 99 percent coverage of the Covid-19 vaccine. This while opposition to a similar program in American Samoa gains traction.
Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa said the latest...
Honolulu, HAWAII — A federal jury awarded $7 million in damages to a woman who said she was sexually assaulted by a deputy sheriff in a First Circuit Court cellblock in Honolulu in 2014.
Elizabeth Mueller was in HOPE probation, a drug probation program, when she alleges she was assaulted during an...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Congregational Christian Church (EFKS) has told the FAST party government it must make good on its campaign promise to repeal a law requiring all church ministers to pay income tax.
The Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa announced last week that the Ministry of Revenue has...
Glasgow, SCOTLAND — The COP26 climate talks have heard that the Pacific Island region will need to contend with the loss of Pacific tuna stocks which are under threat from climate change.
The abundance and distribution of the four economically important tuna in the western and central Pacific —...