Supporters are fervent in their enthusiasm for Samoa's new prime minister, but voters who are more sceptical of ...

The reign of Samoa's first female prime minister is almost certainly over, with provisional results in Friday's national poll indicating a new government will lead the Pacific nation after months of ...

Samoa has become the second country to withdraw some athletes from the Tokyo Olympics as fears grow of a depleted Games being staged under a renewed state of emergency. Meanwhile, visiting officials ...

The country's head of state has declared a 30-day state of emergency due to a financial crisis triggered by the failure to ...

New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when ...

A massive earthquake of 6.6 magnitude struck near the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. However, there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The ...

The New Zealand government says it has done "the right thing" in offering a $5.3 million compensation payout to the Samoan ...

New US$66 million World Bank-funded project will upgrade aviation and road infrastructure and strengthen the resilience of the country’s travel industry WASHINGTON, June 2, 2022 – The World Bank’s ...

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found ...

Belgium Tuatagaloa had a stark choice to make when he was called into the Samoa squad for the first time a few months before the Rugby World Cup earlier this year - sign a new club contract or play ...

For International Women’s Day 2021, we’re sitting down with women across East Asia and the Pacific who are taking on leadership roles and working towards an equal future in a COVID-19 world. Antonia ...