Story & Photos by Lance Polu APIA: TUESDAY 12 MARCH 2013: China’s Vice Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has praised the progress of economic development and efforts by the Samoan Government to help its people. Mr. Liu Jieyi is on a goodwill visit to Samoa [...]

Alan Ah Mu APIA: THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2013: No one has been charged over the death of a man last year at the Tokelau Island of Nukunonu. Nukunonu’s village council has asked the New Zealand police for help in the matter. The response was positive and New Zealand police will look at the information available [...]

By Alan Ah Mu APIA: TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2013:  Georgia wants closer ties to the Pacific and today asked Samoa’s help to achieve that. At the presentation of his credentials as Georgia’s first Ambassador to Samoa today, Vladimir Konstantinidi, said Samoa’s help in “obtaining some sort of partnership status within the Pacific Islands Forum,” would [...]

SOURCE: AP 8:36 AM Tuesday Feb 12, 2013 Declaring that he lacks the strength to do his job, Pope Benedict XVI has announced he will resign February 28 – becoming the first pontiff to step down in 600 years. His decision sets the stage for a mid-March conclave to elect a new leader for a [...]

By Lagi Keresoma APIA: THURSDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2012:  Despite being told of the positive impact of joining WTO, several Samoan owned businesses raised the concern of being swamped under the demands of the bigger and powerful nations. With free trading under WTO, member countries will have to open their markets to exports and imports. Whilst [...]