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Hagåtña, GUAM — Guam senators have selected a woman as the head of the National Guard in the territory for the first time.
Colonel Esther Joan Aguigui will officially serve as the director of the Department of Military Affairs and the adjutant general of the Guam National Guard.
The Guam Daily Post...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoan businesses, churches and individuals have been implicated in a multi-billion dollar global cryptocurrency scam.
Samoa's Central Bank said on Thursday that OneCoin had compromised the country's financial system.
OneCoin has been labelled by the US Justice Department as a pyramid...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Faimalotoa Kika Stowers, is to head the Ministry of Health, with the current minister, Tuitama Talalelei Tuitama, being moved to Women Affairs.
The cabinet reshuffle by the Prime Minister, Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, was...
Apia, SAMOA — A twenty year old man of Fasitoo-uta, who was murdered on Easter Sunday evening, was about to leave to work in American Samoa.
Miracle Mioko Ivaaileone of Fasito’o-uta was been beaten to death by two men on Sunday evening.
Miracle’s sister, Pelenatete Senio, said her brother went with...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa's Pacific Games Office says criticism over the awarding of its broadcasting contract is wrong.
The Journalists' Association of Samoa and TV1 Samoa have this week hit out at the appointment of an overseas company as host broadcaster.
It comes after the Pacific Games Office on...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa will soon have a new chief justice appointed by the head of state, on the advice of the prime minister, after the retirement of Patu Falefatu Maka Sapolu.
Patu has been chief justice for 27 years and bid farewell to the judiciary in a special sitting of the court today.
He...
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Police in Tonga have arrested 17 people in a series of drug busts over Easter Weekend.
The Drug Taskforce arrested ten men on Friday and another 7 on Saturday across three locations in the main island of Tongatapu.
Police also seized a small amount of methamphetamine, cannabis,...
Paris, FRANCE — Democracies across Asia and the Pacific are struggling to resist disinformation and protect press freedoms, according to a new report.
Reporters Without Borders, on Thursday, released its 2019 index, showing an increase in self-censorship of journalists in parts of the Pacific last...
Apia, SAMOA — The future of the Apia Park Sports Complex beyond the Pacific Games in July is uncertain, as it is now firmly established that it is flood prone.
The Vaisigano River is largely to blame for the flooding and the resulting damages; the worst one during Cyclone Evans in 2012.
The river...
Apia, SAMOA — Samoa has a first woman qualified to captain an ocean going vessel. She is 30 year old Ilalegagana Kenesareta Moananu.
She was among the 136 graduates of the Samoa Shipping Corporation Maritime Academy presented with their certificates last Wednesday night.
Moananu will navigate the...