American Samoa

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.

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.