APIA, 15 DECEMBER 2025 (TALAMUA ONLINE0—The Samoa Customs Office has intercepted and seized $6.3 million(US$2.28 million) worth of the illegal drug, methamphetamine brought in by two separate travelers from American Samoa. The latest drug bust was confirmed by the Chief Executive Officer of Customs, Fonoti Tala’itupu Taefu and the Acting Police Commissioner, Leiataua Samuelu Afamasaga […]
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Covid-19: American Samoa governor self-isolates as a precaution
PAGOPAGO,16 MARCH 2020 (RNZ PACIFIC)—American Samoa’s governor has been placed in quarantine after his trip to the US mainland. Lolo Matalasi Moliga traveled to Washington State and Hawaii, two places with confirmed outbreaks of the Covid-19 coronavirus. Seattle, where Lolo was for a medical appointment, is where the largest number of coronavirus deaths in the […]
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Bloomberg campaign rolled out in American Samoa
PAGOPAGO,02 MARCH 2020 (RNZ PACIFIC)—The U.S billionaire and Democratic Party presidential hopeful, Michael Bloomberg, has sent representatives to American Samoa to drum-up support in the party’s territorial caucus. The caucus is in Pago Pago. To ensure Bloomberg is visible to local members of the party, his campaigners have erected mid-size billboards at several locations on […]
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Sunia: Let them float between islands in a canoe
PAGO PAGO, 20 JANUARY 2020 (TALANEI NEWS) —- American Samoa Associate Justice Fiti Sunia says if over stayers from Samoa are refused by their government when deported, they can float between islands in a canoe. Samoa News reports the judge made the comments during sentencing of a Samoan national who was convicted of second degree […]
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Are people born in American Samoa U.S. citizens? A federal judge says yes
SALT LAKE CITY, 13 DECEMBER 2019 – People born in American Samoa are U.S. citizens, a federal judge in Utah ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups’ declaration came in a 69-page decision in a lawsuit filed last year on behalf of three American Samoans in Utah. John Fitisemanu, Pale Tuli and Rosavita Tuli sued […]