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Salelologa couple Oscar and Senora Chong Nee
Apia, SAMOA — A Salelologa couple is denying criminal charges of possession of narcotics, firearms, and ammunition. The couple entered not guilty pleas to 11 charges in court this week before Justice Leiataualesa Darryl Clarke. Court prosecution has alleged that the illegal items were found on...
Cans of StarKist Light Chunk Tuna
San Francisco, CA — Ongoing legal arguments —outlined in the latest court filing — continue between StarKist Co., and the US Justice Department over whether the cannery should sell a portion of its $154 million interest in Techpack Solution Inc., to pay a $100 million fine for their participation...
Samoa Supreme Court building
Apia, SAMOA — Police investigation into the deaths of a church minister and a female church member now await the arrival of a pathologist from New Zealand to determine the cause of the death. Police say their team is continuing to collect information in connection to the deaths. Speculations on the...
(l r) Escaped prisoners Pati Chong Nee and Suitupe Faamoe Paufai
Apia, SAMOA — On going police attempts without success, to catch escaped prisoners Pati Chong Nee and Suitupe Faamoe Paufai, is pointing increasingly towards the public helping to hide them. Several frustrated Police sources contacted by Newsline Samoa felt that there are people who know where the...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
Palikir, FSM — The US has started negotiations to renew agreements with its freely associated states in the Pacific, in a counter to Chinese influence in the region. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been in the Federated States of Micronesia meeting with its president and leaders from Palau and...
Leutogi Te'o (C) and Luse Tauvale (R) talking to their lawyer
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's nurses association says safety measures in the country's hospitals have improved since the deaths of two vaccinated infants. On Friday, two nurses were jailed for five years for administering incorrectly mixed vaccines last year. But according to one critic, the pair are...
[l-r] Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga, Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and Lt. Gov. Lemanu Palepoi Sialega Mauga
Apia, SAMOA —  Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has resorted to the ‘we are one Samoa’  card, in defense of  heavily criticised American Samoa Governor, Lolo Matalasi Moliga The Governor ended up at the centre of angry public reactions in the territory, for a recent donation of...
Lawyer Olinda Woodroffe
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — The lawyer for the family of a New Zealand man found hanging upside down in a drum of water at a Samoan prison strongly disagrees with a coroner's finding and says there was enough evidence to determine he was forced into it. Coroner Ryan, in a report released last week,...
The parents of the two babies who died.
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's District Court will conduct a coronial inquest into the deaths of two one-year-old babies, who died after receiving the Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine in July last year at Safotu district hospital. Yesterday, the Supreme Court sentenced two nurses to five years in...
Twenty-four-year-old female An Tran Thi appeared in Court on Friday
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Supreme Court has granted bail to Ana Tran Thi, the 24 year old Vietnamese female accused of carrying illegal drugs into the country. Speaking through an interpreter, Justice Leaitaualesa warned Ana Tran Thi that she will immediately be taken back to prison if she fails to...

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