Exterior renderings have been released for the future Tulsa Oklahoma and Savaiʻi Samoa temples, both to be the second in ...

New Zealand paid NZ$6 million (WST$10 million) to the Samoan government as compensation for the maritime disaster ...

Tafitoala villagers are pleading for Manawanui wreckage compensation, saying "we are fighting for a big amount" as their ...

Tucked away on the southeastern coast of Upolu Island, where turquoise waters kiss white-sand coves and palm trees sway to ...

Lieutenant Christian Lloyd, who led the Royal New Zealand Navy diving contingent in Samoa in the aftermath of the sinking of ...

Palolo Rising! Islanders around the Moana are beginning the chase for the elusive palolo worm - here are the predicted best ...

The payout comes a year after the ship ran aground on a reef. Officials from both countries are working on plans for the ship ...

Bali is ruined,” reckoned actor Charlie Chaplin, an early lamenter of overtourism. The year was 1936. Fast-forward, and the ...

New Zealand has paid $3.5 million to Samoa to compensate for a ship that ran aground and sank on a reef one year ago. HPR's ...

New Zealand's government has paid Samoa 10m Samoan Tala (NZD 6m; £2.6m) after one of its naval ships crashed into a reef in ...

The ecological impact of the wreck of the HMNZS Manawanui, which remains at the site a year later, is still being assessed.

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