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Avarua, COOK ISLANDS — Mining deep areas of the ocean to gather rare metals for electric car batteries and other green technologies is attracting cash-strapped Pacific island governments.
While the country's leaders are enthusiastic, there are many who say it's simply extractive colonization all...
Avarua, COOK ISLANDS — Mining deep areas of the ocean to gather rare metals for electric car batteries and other green technologies is attracting cash-strapped Pacific island governments.
Exploration is now under way in the waters around the Cook Islands - or 'Avaiki Nui, as the islands are known...
Apia, SAMOA — Video recordings of social media posts by a woman charged with criminal libel were submitted to the District Court on Monday by an expert police witness.
Perkin Feagiai Headle, also known as Salote Syrah Tautai is accused of making defamatory statements against members of the ruling...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In a move that surprised many Pacific watchers, the U.S. has denied a visa to former premier Daniel Suidani of the Solomon Islands most populous province, Malaita. Now there is Congressional bipartisan support to try to ensure a second application sees a better outcome....
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Against all odds, Samoa's Consular General to American Samoa, Fata Brian Kaio managed to get to England to attend Oxford University at the height of the pandemic in 2021.
Fata was named one of the top five graduates at the University of Oxford in England in March....
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In honor of Women’s History Month, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost (R-Ill.) and Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-Calif.), reauthorized the bipartisan Women Veteran Task Force (WVTF), with Rep. Uifa’atali Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-American Samoa)...
Apia, SAMOA — Two men who conspired to murder former Samoa prime minister Tuilaepa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi have been found guilty of the charges laid against them.
Samoa's Supreme Court delivered the decision on Friday, in the trial of Malele Paulo and Lema'i Faioso Sione.
The Samoa Observer reports...
Apia, SAMOA — The Samoa Observer is reporting that a six-year-old girl, who was hit by a vehicle last week Thursday as she tried to cross the road after school at Mulivai Safata, has died from the injuries she sustained.
Police Commissioner, Auapaau Logoitino Filipo confirmed on Thursday when...
Nuku'alofa, TONGA — Tonga's Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Irish-based Bermudan company Seabased Group to build a system of motion-powered offshore generators.
The system will generate electricity via special buoys connected to generators planted on the seabed.
The MoU was...
Concord, CALIFORNIA — A San Francisco television station, KRON-4, is reporting that 21-year-old man was shot and killed at a Concord, CA strip mall on Tuesday. The family of the deceased confirmed the killing but have asked for privacy as they console one another. The Concord Police Department...