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Representatives of Small Island Developing States from around the world are meeting in Samoa this week.

Health officials in Hawke's Bay are trying to curb the high rate of bowel cancer deaths among Pasifika people by encouraging them to take screening tests.

The Cook Islands is putting its ratification of the regional trade deal known as PACER Plus on hold.

The tuna cannery, StarKist Samoa, is to produce "certified kosher tuna" from its plant next month.

Papua New Guinea businessman, Sir Kostas Constantinou, has been given a Samoan chiefly title, Tulaniu-o-Atua Kostas.

Samoa's prime minister says he has told his Attorney General to draft an amendment that would give harsher penalties for boy racers.

Samoa says it will tighten adoption laws after hearing adopted Samoan children living overseas are being exploited and treated like slaves.

A new survey of businesses in the Pacific has found they are being held back by a lack of access to credit.

A new company in American Samoa says it plans to export local fish for off-island markets.

Samoa's Court of Appeal has upheld a Supreme Court decision that the former Manu Samoa seven's rugby coach, Damian McGrath, must pay a $US14,000 dollar surety before his lawsuit can proceed.

Two supposed boy racers charged with reckless driving have been discharged without conviction after District Court Judge Alalatoa Rosella Viane Papali'i questioned the rationale behind the charges.

In Samoa a Canadian man who pleaded guilty to possession of narcotics and utensils has been convicted on three charges and fined $US1200.

The bellowing karakia was swept through the air by the vigorous breeze at the National War Memorial, as dignitaries gathered on a crisp morning for the unveiling.

A Canadian analyst says a regional free trade agreement in the Pacific will assault Pacific island economies and give China a strategic opening in the region.

Prominent American Samoa politician has Galeai Moaaliitele Tuufuli has died in California at the age of 81.

American Samoa will soon have in place a new law which criminalises and prevents the neglect, abuse and exploitation of the elderly and disabled adult population in the territory.