Samoa has become the second country to withdraw some athletes from the Tokyo Olympics as fears grow of a depleted Games being staged under a renewed state of emergency. Meanwhile, visiting officials ...

New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when ...

The country's head of state has declared a 30-day state of emergency due to a financial crisis triggered by the failure to pass an Approbriation Bill, as outlined under Samoa's Constitution.

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found ...

A massive earthquake of 6.6 magnitude struck near the South Pacific island nation of Samoa on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. However, there were no immediate reports of injury or damage. The ...

Veteran prop Josh Papalii has returned to the Toa Samoa side on a two-year mission to lead his country to a historic World ...

The trick is to lean in, to give myself over to the rhythm of the island, and let it swallow me whole.

The Pacific island nation of Samoa has detected its very first case of community-transmitted COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, prompting a nationwide lockdown due to being this weekend. Prime ...

For International Women’s Day 2021, we’re sitting down with women across East Asia and the Pacific who are taking on leadership roles and working towards an equal future in a COVID-19 world. Antonia ...

Belgium Tuatagaloa had a stark choice to make when he was called into the Samoa squad for the first time a few months before the Rugby World Cup earlier this year - sign a new club contract or play ...

Samoa swore in its first female Prime Minister in a makeshift ceremony in a tent Monday after she was locked out of Parliament amid a power struggle with the country’s longstanding leader. Fiame Naomi ...

Amid growing conversations about frustrations with overtourism in certain parts of the world, some places remain largely undiscovered by travellers. One of those has been pointed out by a man who has ...