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Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, millions of Americans who live outside the 50 states are excluded from full participation in its democracy.
Roughly 3.6 million residents of U.S. territories – including Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana...
RNZ — Science has now confirmed it; we prefer to move in a counterclockwise direction.
Two researchers, Dr. Iñaki Echeverría Huarte from the University of Navarra in Spain and Dr. Claudio Feliciani from Waseda University, Tokyo, have been conducting crowd experiments and have come to some...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa's opposition leader Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi claims the government has neglected two Apia men looking at execution in Vietnam for the murder of a Sydney gang boss.
However, the government released a statement on Wednesday regarding the two men in Vietnam,...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Top Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) officials have welcomed US President Donald Trump's executive order, which will open up nearly half a million square kilometers of protected Pacific waters for commercial fishing, despite warnings from conservation...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — El Niño has been declared in the Pacific — and a forecaster says there's reason for concern.
An El Niño event occurs when the ocean becomes warmer than usual, affecting rainfall and wind patterns.
The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP), the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa Airways Chief Executive Officer Fauo'o Fatu Tielu says that budget preparations for the new financial year, beginning 1 July 2026, are now underway.
The airline will soon determine whether to add a fuel surcharge of US$5 to US$10 (about $13.50 to $27) to one-way...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — A conservation group has condemned Donald Trump's decision to allow commercial fishing in parts of the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument.
President Trump signed an executive order June 11 opening protected waters around Hawai'i, American Samoa and the Northern...
"As Chinese, we're so used to using chopsticks so we don't really think about how it's made, but when you actually try to make it, you'll realize that the most traditional designs has its own reasons."
To feel comfortable in hand, chopsticks need to be thin at one end and thick at the other, and...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Samoa police arrested 6 youths Friday night after two visitors were attacked and robbed in two separate incidents in Apia that same night.
In one incident a group of youth attacked an American Samoan national in front of the Tanoa Hotel. A previous, similar attack took...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — On June 11, 2026, President Trump signed an "Executive Proclamation Restoring American Commercial Fishing in the Pacific," opening additional prized fishing grounds to American fishermen and United States flagged fishing vessels. This Executive action opens more economic...