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Seattle WASHINGTON — US District Court Judge Richard A. Jones at the federal court in Seattle yesterday sentenced 40-year old Iliganoa Theresa Lauofo to 27 months in prison for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and embezzlement of mail by a postal employee, according to federal prosecutors and...
Marjuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Tuna transshipment activity in the Marshall Islands picked up in October, but remains low compared to the past six years that saw Majuro become the world's busiest port for such transshipment.
Covid-19 quarantine requirements have reduced the number of purse seine...
Seattle, WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors say an American Samoa woman who has pled guilty to fraud and theft made a “decision to steal, month after month and year after year, resulting in dozens of discrete acts of theft,” according the US Justice Department sentencing statement filed with the...
Apia, SAMOA — From the Chief Executive Officer of Samoa Shipping Services, Lautimuia Afoa Uelese Va’ai;
“The photograph of an email conversation between Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) crew manager for cargo vessels only, Rocco Maresca, in Naples and the Samoa Shipping Services (SSS) was...
Apia, SAMOA — A total of 17 people are in managed quarantine after working with the now-infected container ship that passed through Apia this weekend, the Government has confirmed.
Four are Government staff from the Ministry of Health and the Samoa Port Authority and 13 are stevedoring crew members...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's largest church has been forced to make a public apology after it broadcast a debate that seemed to ridicule members of the fa'afafine community.
The Samoa Observer reports the debate by youth groups was on whether fa'afine should become members of parliament has angered the...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Coral Reef Task Force (USCRTF held its only meeting of 2020 via video teleconference on October 15.
Co-chairs Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary, Insular and International Affairs, Douglas W. Domenech and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Deputy...
Saipan, CNMI — With no flights coming from China, illegal drugs coming into the Northern Marianas are being smuggled via post from the US mainland.
In September and October more than 400 grams of crystal meth with a combined street value of US$182,700 have been seized from the post office.
The...
Canberra, AUSTRALIA — Australian research shows the Covid-19 pandemic could spark a food crisis in the Pacific.
The report is the work of CSIRO and the Australian National University.
Published this week by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, or ACIAR, the report warns...
Auckland, NEW ZEALAND — Congratulatory messages continue to pour in from Pacific leaders to the US president-elect Joe Biden but what does the change of the guard in Washington DC really mean for the Pacific?
RNZ Pacific spoke with some political experts and commentators around the region about the...