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The Human Rights Protection Party (H.R.P.P.) is not in a rush to endorse candidates for three constituencies whose seats the Supreme Court declared vacant through a consent order last week. This is the position of the former ruling party, according to the Opposition Leader and head of the party, ...

Recently, concerns have been expressed in Pacific media regarding the expected discharge of water from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (FDNPS) in Japan, the most recent one being an opinion published in 20 July edition of Samoa Observer “The disposal of Fukushima nuclear wastewater into t...

“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child”, said Robert Louis Stevenson. With this mission of inspiring young writers in cultivating creativity, critical thinking, and effective communication skills, Vodafone along with Samoa Observer for several years has provided opportunity for th...

A nightclub owner at the centre of an impasse with authorities over his business license says he is disappointed at the way his firm is being treated and the lack of compassion shown.In an interview with the Samoa Observer, the owner of the R.S.A. nightclub and Tatiana Investment, Afoa Faleulu Ma...

Families in Samoa appreciate the remittances that loved ones living abroad send every week or every fortnight, including family members working as part of a labour mobility program in Australia or New Zealand. Those on seasonal work programs make enormous sacrifices being away from home for so lo...

Cabinet has recently endorsed standardised entitlements for all chief executive officers of Government ministries and public bodies under the Ministry of Public Enterprise, the Samoa Observer can reveal. The new standardised entitlements were the outcome of a review conducted by M.P.E. on non-sal...

Travellers hoping to get to Savai'i early have criticised the Upolu-Savai'i ferry service after the Samoa Express couldn't berth at Mulifanua due to another vessel taking a TV crew.Eyewitnesses told the Samoa Observer the ferry arrived at Mulifanua but it had to reverse out again to wait for her ...

In October 1997 Samoa’s then-opposition leader, Tuiatua Tupua Tamasese Efi announced that he was taking the government to court in a bid to lift a ban on him having access to the national radio 2AP.Tuiatua, at that time, was of the view that the ban was a breach of the right to freedom of express...

A group of student donors from all over the United States, who are funding a special project in Samoa, are back and their return will benefit students of Saina and Vaimoso primary schools.The Humanitarian Experience Program started by building individual and developing families' houses in 2015 an...

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