External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar congratulated Samoa on Independence Day, emphasising the commitment to enhance Pacific ...

A measles outbreak in the Pacific island nation of Samoa has left more than 60 people dead, mostly children. Alan Wright of the New Zealand Medical Assistance Team talks about the situation.

Samoa’s prime minister says she will seek to dissolve Parliament, prompting an early election, after a budget vote failed ...

New Zealand — Samoa has reported scores of new coronavirus cases daily since detecting its first-ever case of community transmission last week. The South Pacific island nation of 200,000 people ...

And then we ended the day with two people claiming to be prime minister of Samoa. WESTERMAN: When the party that was supposed to be forming a government, known as FAST, had an outdoor swearing-in ...

“This actually fits very well with JANM’s mission statement, because here we’re talking about an art form that helped the Samoan people keep their identity together back then, and even now ...

What kind of nation do we want to be? One where journalists are silenced by outdated laws? Or one where the truth, even when ...

(It’s true that some people have severe reactions to vaccines, but data show they are uncommon and rarely life-threatening.) The Samoan government is making the right moves to address this ...

The outbreak has killed 55 people in Samoa so far, the government said Monday ... paper would review the process by which it selects art to publish. “We have published many stories about ...

As Samoa, a country of about 200,000 people that is part of the same island chain as American Samoa, declared an emergency last week, health officials said they were “anticipating the worst to ...

Samoa’s vaccination rate lags behind that of other Pacific island countries. “This is a reflection of a whole lot of factors. People are not so confident in their health system,” Petousis ...

By Isabella Kwai Photographs by Matthew Abbott UPOLU, Samoa — From the beginning ... For many, it came too late. Over all, 77 people have died in the epidemic, and at least 5,400 cases of ...