Samoa News

After about a week on the big island of Savaii I finally left for the main island of Upolu.

Members of Wellington-based Samoa Advisory Council gather donations. [courtesy photo] A contingent from the Wellington-based Samoa Advisory Council this week presented five containers of tsunami aid assistance as well as NZ$ 66,850 to the government.

Dominic James ... as he appeared for Cleo's Bachelor of the Year finals. He's been called Australia's Captain Sully and a "great chick magnet" who could soon be earning hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of endorsements.

In his Samoan tongue, the expression conveys a thank you drawn from the bottom of one's heart.

A FORMER Cleo Bachelor of the Year nominee has been revealed as the pilot who saved a critically-ill woman and five others on a CareFlight plane after being forced into an emergency landing.

An Australian fire truck is settling into its new home in tsunami devastated Samoa, after being officially handed over by the Melbourne Metropolitan Fire Brigade at a special ceremony held at the Apia Fire Station.

Levaopolo Peter Letiu of Mangere was killed while in Samoa to help tsunami victims.

Tusisaleia Hope Pomele [courtesy photo] Twenty-two-year-old Miss Samoa USA Tusisaleia Hope Pomele left the island yesterday on her way to Samoa to be crowned the new Miss Samoa, after Jacinta Bourne, who was crowned Miss Samoa Sept.

The tsunami-devastated Pacific island nation of Samoa has received a $400,000 firetruck from Victoria.

Saturday, 7 November 2009, 3:19 pm Press Release: Event Polynesia 5 November 2009 A few days after the tsunami, a flag made of white cloth mark the place where it was once a family home at Saleapaga village which was completely destroyed by the tsunami.

Police in Samoa are hunting a bus driver who took off after he crashed and killed eight people.

American Samoa artista s Ekredible and RasMas. They just came back last week from a oe I love Samoaa tsunami relief concert that was held in Apia on Oct 31.

Six weeks on from the devastating Samoa tsunami, Oxfam and its Samoan partner organisation, Women in Business, are helping affected families to rebuild their livelihoods through organic agriculture for niche export markets.

The University of California, Berkeley, has signed an agreement with the Samoan government to isolate from an indigenous tree the gene for a promising anti-AIDS drug and to share any royalties from sale of a gene-derived drug with the people of Samoa.

The following is the full text of the testimony offered on Nov. 4, 2009 before the Subcommittee on Insular Affairs, Oceans and Wildlife Hearing on H.R. 3583, the American Samoa Protection of Industry, Resources and Employment Act by Eni F.H. Faleomavaega, American Samoa Delegate to Congress.

Staff Sgt. Fanuaee Fea, 32, comforts Savannah Green, 23, outside the main gate after a shooting at Fort Hood, Texas on Thursday, Nov.

Congressman Faleomavaega yesterday offered his personal congratulations to Lt. Col. Leafaina Olive Tavai-Yahn for her selection for promotion to Colonel in the U.S. Army.

IT is my hope that the Fiji Rugby Union can take a cue from an excellent initiative taken by its Samoan counterparts.

Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 4:26 pm Press Release: World Bank APIA, November 2, 2009- Juan Jose Daboub, Managing Director of the World Bank, today announced that the World Bank will double its financial contribution to Samoa, from USD 20 million to USD 40 million, in order to help the country respond to the recent devastating tsunami.

AFTERMATH: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key amid tsunami damage to Lalomanu Beach, Samoa.