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FAST Party cancels trip to American Samoa
Talanei
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August 18, 2025
A planned Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi Party roadshow to American Samoa has been called off citing public health concerns over the ongoing dengue fever outbreak. The decision was confirmed by FAST leader and chairman, Laaulialemalietoa...
Luisa Kuaea selected for Medicaid Leadership Institute
Talanei
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August 21, 2025
The Director of the American Samoa Medicaid State Agency Luisa Kuaea has been selected as one of only six Medicaid directors nationwide to join the Medicaid Leadership Institute (MLI) Class of 2026. This is a prestigious program led by the Center...
First, American Samoa
Island Times
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August 19, 2025
HAGATNA (PACIFIC ISLAND TIMES) — With the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management poised to decide soon on an application for deep-sea mining in the waters off American Samoa, advocates opposing the initiative hope to build a tidal wave of resistance...
Guam residents join other territories in petition opposing deep seabed mining in American Samoa
Pacific Daily News
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Guam residents have joined over 2,000 other people in a petition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management opposing the imposition of deep seabed mining in the waters of American Samoa. Right to Democracy, which works to advance democracy, equity,...
OPINION McNinch: Guam election apathy
Pacific Daily News
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Since Guam has refused to make any progress on a constitution, the structure of our government is largely controlled in federal laws. On a number of occasions, we have been taken to court for not following federal laws. If we had passed the...
Territory receives funding to STOP violence against women
Talanei
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August 21, 2025
The Criminal Justice Planning Agency has been awarded $617,640 in federal funds for the STOP (Services, Training, Officers, Prosecutors) Violence Against Women Formula Grant Program. The STOP Formula Grant Program encourages partnerships between...
First, American Samoa: Territorial advocates warn Guam, CNMI can be the next target for deep-sea mining
The Pacific Island Times
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August 17, 2025
With the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management poised to decide soon on an application for deep-sea mining in the waters off American Samoa, advocates opposing the initiative hope to build a tidal wave of resistance not just in American Samoa but...
No FAST Party “roadshow” in the territory prior to Samoa’s election
Samoa News
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August 19, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While the Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) Party had planned a Pago “roadshow” beginning this past Saturday, the campaign event has now been cancelled in order to curb the spread of dengue fever. The decision...
Guam joins other territories in petition opposing deep seabed mining in American Samoa
Pacific Daily News
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Guam residents have joined over 2,000 other people in a petition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management opposing the imposition of deep seabed mining in the waters of American Samoa. Right to Democracy, who is organizing the petition with...
Proposed FY 2026 budget decrease in workforce, not reflected in its projected personnel costs
Samoa News
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August 22, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The proposed budget for the Fiscal Year 2026 for the American Samoa Government (ASG) while showing an 11% increase — $815,392,069 — compared to the previous budget of $733,683,167 for Fiscal Year FY 2025, also forecasts...
Drift gillnet fishing is illegal
Talanei
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August 22, 2025
Noone has yet been charged but the Department of Marine and Wildlife resources has confiscated drift gillnets that one fisherman was using at Pala Lagoon earlier this month. The fisherman fled when DMWR staff, alerted by a resident, arrived at the...
CAMPUS CUPID: Love blooms among Idaho State University student athletes
Idaho State Journal
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POCATELLO — Let’s assume you’re a highly competitive Division I collegiate athlete who is also studying a demanding field like nursing or mechanical engineering. Why wouldn’t you introduce another complicating factor like love? The answer to that...
American Samoa calls in the experts to help find football talent
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 12, 2025
It's nearly 30 years since the Football Federation of American Samoa joined OFC, but in that time, they have managed just once to get a team past a preliminary round and qualify to compete in an Oceania tournament proper. But now the FFAS has...
TUILAEPA SAY : The Future is Here.
Newsline Samoa
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August 22, 2025
Voluntary LiquidationAugust 22, 2025ETERNAL WISDOM GLOBAL HOLDINGS LIMITED Notice is given that the above company incorporated under the Samoa International Companies Act 1988 is in voluntary liquidation. creditor claims against this company must…...
Miss American Samoa brings ‘Crown, Culture & Couture’ to Port Moresby
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 12, 2025
Pauliana Angelfromheaven Felise Vitale, Miss American Samoa 2024–2025, is set to be a key figure at the Pacific Fashion Summit and Genesis Showcase this September. Known for her infectious warmth and unwavering presence, Vitale’s participation is...
Two American Samoans graduate from executive leadership program
Samoa News
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August 12, 2025
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 2025 Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP), is a distinguished network of young leaders from across the U.S. affiliated Pacific Islands that reflects a shared understanding that the future of the Pacific...
American Samoa affirmed at Ba3 with stable outlook by Moody's
The Bond Buyer - New York
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August 8, 2025
Pago Pago American Samoa hill view over the island. The territory's rating was affirmed by Moody's.Peto - stock.adobe.com American Samoa's issuer rating and its general revenue bonds were affirmed at Ba3 with a stable outlook by Moody's Ratings on...
Oregon refuses to give private voter information to Trump lawyers who demanded it
OregonLive.com
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August 22, 2025
Rebuffing top Trump administration lawyers, Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read refused to turn over detailed information about each of the state’s voters, saying nothing in federal or state law gives the federal government the right to obtain...
The International Seabed Authority’s war with itself
Grist Magazine
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August 15, 2025
For the last three decades, the United Nations’ agency called the International Seabed Authority, or ISA, has been working in relative obscurity on negotiating the regulations that will govern a field of enterprise that remains purely speculative:...
NZ Post halts deliveries to US as tariffs loom
RNZ
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August 22, 2025
Some NZ Post services to the US have been suspended for an unknown amount of time. (File photo) Photo: Supplied / NZ Post NZ post has suspended some forms of shipping to the United States as Donald Trump's trade tariffs loom. This included...