American Samoa

American Samoa wants a new entry permit programme for US Nationals born in the territory to enter Samoa.

Officials in American Samoa say a Philippines-based company is moving forward with its food processing plant in the territory.

American Samoa's governor, Lolo Matalasi Moliga, has dismissed criticism that he is "anti-canneries".

Questions have been raised in American Samoa over the arming of the territory's police.

January will mark two years since ground broke at a site in American Samoa where Filipino company AVM Bernardo planned to build a food processing plant.

American Samoa's StarKist Samoa cannery is in discussions with US-based Tri Marine International for the use of a cold storage facility in Pago Pago.

American Samoa's LBJ Hospital has opened a chronic kidney disease clinic as it tries to reduce the high rate of the disease and diabetes in the territory.

Nearly 2,000 employees at a cannery in American Samoa will be returning to work this week, after five weeks without pay.

The main defendant arrested after police drug raids two weeks ago in American Samoa has waived his rights to a preliminary hearing in the District Court.

American Samoa's governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has called a special session of the Fono to change local banking laws and to consider a new High Court judge.

American Samoa's Department of Public Safety is reported to be tracking the whereabouts of a former police officer Steve Tuatoo and has reached out to Samoa for assistance in locating him.

The US Department of Labor in American Samoa has opened a federal investigation into the death of the captain of a US-flagged purse seiner.

More than 1600 care packages were distributed to employees of American Samoa's StarKist Samoa and the can plant, Talofa Systems, at the weekend.

Samoa's government has rejected conditions set by American Samoa to resume exports of taro to its neighbouring territory.

The planned tax reform in the US provides for an extension of the American Samoa Economic Development Credit.

Authorities in American Samoa say there are important lessons to be learned after Friday night's earthquake.

American Samoa's attorney general says as far as his government is concerned it has paid a company for its services to the Department of Human and Social Services.

The American Samoa governor Lolo Matalasi Moliga has approved a rise in wharf charges but vetoed a rise in excise tax.

About US$100,000 dollars has been raised in American Samoa for victims of natural disasters on the United States mainland and its territories.