American Samoa

Flags in American Samoa are flying at half mast today and tomorrow in honour of a cabinet member who died suddenly last month.

The United States has objected to the European Union's decision to put American Samoa and Guam on its blacklist of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions.

A petition is to be presented to the US Secretary of Defence in a bid to reinstate military airlift command flights to American Samoa.

A man has been arrested in American Samoa suspected of being involved in shooting at two police officers last week.

A call has been made in the Samoa parliament to get rid of entry permits for American Samoans wanting to visit Samoa.

American Samoa's Department of Public Safety is back to three shifts a day with the addition of more than two dozen new police officers.

The author of a poem which is studied at colleges and universities in the Pacific region, Eti Saaga, has died .

StarKist Samoa cannery, the large private employer in American Samoa, has shut down production for three weeks.

Police investigations are continuing into an incident where police were shot at while responding to a call about cherry bombs being thrown into the Tony Solaita Baseball Field.

Patients at American Samoa's only hospital are unable to get CAT scans with the only machine out of commission for more than two months.

A cabinet member of the American Samoa government Taeaoafua Dr. Meki Solomona has died aged 63.

An American Samoan film director Queen Muhammad Ali is planning to revive the use of natural medicines to counter diabetes and obesity.

The American Samoa Government is thinking about buying a small aircraft to fly between Tutuila and Manu'a.

There have been large crowds of American Samoans taking advantage of free medical clinics provided by the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

The American Samoa government has agreed that denying some pregnant Samoan women entry to the territory is a breach of their human rights and it has promised to alleviate the matter.

A team of doctors and medical personnel form Samoa's Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation has been in American Samoa to discuss with local health authorities a strategy to combat…

Samoa and American Samoa have agreed to find a way to address the number of Samoan nationals in American Samoa's overcrowded prison, among other measures.

American Samoa has asked Samoa to ensure that longliners that have shifted there deliver to the the territory's StarKist cannery instead of to canneries in Asia.