Samoa Observer lawsuit
Apia, SAMOA — The wife of a Cabinet Minister lodged a complaint on Friday night with the Samoa police against a journalist from the Samoa Observer newspaper, according to a report in the independent nation’s leading newspaper.
The complaint stems from a story that Samoa Observer reporter Sialai...
Apia, SAMOA — The hearing of a $700,000 lawsuit brought by Reverend Opapo Soanai Oeti and his daughter, Toaipupuaga, against the Samoa Observer was held in the Supreme Court yesterday.
Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mata Tuatagaloa, presided. Rev. Opapo and his daughter, who maintained she is...


![In this 2016 Samoa News file photo, Toaipuapuagā Opapo-Ah Chong shows the signs of “stigmata” — the term used by members of the Christian faith to describe body marks, sores, or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands, wrists, and feet. [SN file photo] Toaipuapuagā Opapo-Ah Chong shows the signs of “stigmata”](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/stigmata_girl5324web.jpg?itok=kfnL-v-t)