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PCRIC makes $285,000 payout to Samoa for tsunami recovery
Reinsurance News
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August 15, 2025
The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC), a donor funded entity established to provide Pacific Island nations with access to disaster risk insurance and related services, has made a payout of $285,000 under the tsunami component of...
Samoa sets Nationwide Clean-up Day to help Combat Spread of Dengue Fever
Samoa Global News
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August 14, 2025
By: Jasmine Netzler-Iose, Govt Press. Samoa is gearing up for a nationwide clean-up approved by Cabinet and confirmed by Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa earlier today in a Press Conference with local media. The campaign is part of the on-going...
Leota Salani Re-appointed as Samoa Government Statistician
Samoa Global News
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August 14, 2025
As the sole applicant, Cabinet this week sealed the re-appointment of Leota Aliielua Salani as the Chief Government Statistician to lead the Samoa Bureau of Statistics. Leota is the longest serving public servant with the Bureau bringing 33 years...
Who will play for Samoa in the 2025 Pacific Championships?
Sporting News
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August 14, 2025
The 2025 Pacific Championships will be the fourth edition of the concept, where top-ranked nations will battle it out from October through to November. Samoa wasn't featured in last year's tournament, instead, they toured England in a two-game...
Renowned Butoh Dance Artist, Akihito Ichihara visits Samoa
Newsline Samoa
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August 13, 2025
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Biomanufacturing: Scale-up vs Scale-out Economics
BioPharma Dive
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Samoa Receives US$285,000 Insurance Payout from PCRIC
Samoa Global News
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August 13, 2025
PRESENTATION OF THE INSURANCE PAYOUT RECEIVED FROM PCRIC FOR SAMOA’S DISASTER INSURANCE POLICY REMARKS by the Minister of Finance Hon. Lautimuia Afoa Uelese Vaai Mr. Aholotu Palu. CEO for the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company. Talofa lava...
Operation Ika Moana launched in Samoa
Talanei
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August 12, 2025
In a landmark event for Samoa and the broader Pacific region, the official opening of Operation Ika Moana was held in Apia Monday, marking a new chapter in sustainable ocean management, regional maritime cooperation, and fisheries protection. The...
nbs Mastercard Promotion: Summer Sulā Schuster Wins Ultimate Experience in London
Samoa Global News
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August 15, 2025
15 August 2025, Apia, Samoa – The National Bank of Samoa (NBS) is proud to announce the winner of its exclusive Mastercard campaign. Summer Sulā Schuster is on her way to London on an all-expenses-paid trip to the Finals of the Women’s Rugby World...
Why do Pakistan and India celebrate Independence Day a day apart?
The National News
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At midnight on August 14, 1947, the Indian Independence Act came into being, effectively ending 200 years of British colonialism and splitting the country into India and Pakistan. “As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and...
Dengue fever outbreak: Sixth child dies in Samoa, NZ medical team arrives in Apia
The New Zealand Herald
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August 11, 2025
In the last week of July and first few days of August, three children perished. Of those three deaths, two were brothers - a 9-year-old who died three days before his 2-year-old sibling also succumbed to the disease. In a heartbreaking post shared...
Bank South Pacific Donate to Goshen Trust in Support of Mental Health Services in Samoa
Samoa Global News
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August 8, 2025
Apia, Samoa – Bank South Pacific (Samoa) officially handed over its 2025 Community Project donation valued at ST$40,000 tala to Goshen Mental Health Services Trust in Vailima. The initiative is part of its annual group-wide community initiative...
Triathlon Samoa Hosts Record-Breaking Apia Half-Marathon and Team Relay
Samoa Global News
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August 10, 2025
Apia, Samoa – Saturday, 9 August 2025. Triathlon Samoa has successfully pulled off the biggest running event of the year – the Apia Half-Marathon and Team Relay which kicked off in the early hours of the morning, Saturday 9 August 2025. The event...
Down Under
Papua New Guinea Post Courier
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August 15, 2025
I’ve climbed the iconic coat hanger and world-famous Sydney Harbour Bridge. Stood at the top and sang my guts out. Slept in the Sofitel, washed in the Murray, and fished on the Great Barrier Reef, and let my black Buka hair down in Canberra. I’ve...
Firefighter, mother, tattooist: three rugby part-timers on their sacrifices to live a World Cup dream
The Guardian
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August 15, 2025
When the women’s Rugby World Cup starts next week 512 players from 16 squads will have a chance to represent their country on the sport’s biggest stage. It will be a proud moment for all but perhaps none will deserve it more than the part-timers...
Samoa hints at Forum snub
Islands Business
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August 7, 2025
NEGOTIATIONS are underway in the Cook Islands as the United States seeks a deal which will allow for the exploration of seabed minerals. In an agreement signed on August 5, the US and Cook Islands governments agreed to affirm their “commitment to...
US Sides with Nauru on Deep-Sea Mining, Splitting Pacific Leaders
Island Times
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August 15, 2025
By: Bernadette Carreon NAURU – The United States has thrown its weight behind Nauru’s push to fast-track deep-sea mining, backing a Canadian partner’s bid despite warnings from other Pacific nations about risks to fragile ocean ecosystems. The...
New Zealand and Australian leaders discuss stronger military ties against China
World Socialist Web Site
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August 15, 2025
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand PM Christopher Luxon [Photo: AP/Jason Edwards, Finnish Government]Australia’s Labor Party Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met with New Zealand’s right-wing National Party Prime Minister...
Pacific Islands Forum:
Island Times
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August 15, 2025
Leaders from 18 Pacific countries will gather in the Solomon Islands next month for the annual Pacific Island Forum Leaders Meeting (PIFLM). But why is such engagement important? According to Sione Tekiteki, a former PIF adviser and senior...
Samoa warns Forum against interference on Taiwan
Pacific News Service
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Samoa caretaker Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa has issued a strong warning that her government would find it “very difficult” to attend the upcoming Pacific Islands Forum if the long-standing practice of allowing Taiwan to participate is...