Oceania Samoa Samoan families are increasingly choosing to send patients to India or Fiji rather than New Zealand to avoid high medical costs; Samoa launched "Manu" application, a digital medical records system designed to improve patient follow-up
Oceania Samoa The Samoa Conservation Society has enlisted the help of the public to help eradicate the invasive rattan palm; initial work to combat the plant began in 2006 after it was introduced in the 1990s
Oceania Samoa Samoan small-scale family farmers said they felt a sense of pride and happiness that many people arriving for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting could feast on locally grown produce; on the occasion they could present their climate-linked issue
Oceania Samoa Children aged from 4 to 14 from Samoa became the youngest official delegates to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Apia
Oceania Samoa The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting will be held in Samoa today and tomorrow with the participation of the leaders of all the 56 countries that form the association
Oceania Samoa Three digital kiosks, strategically placed, will help travellers to Samoa to acquire any kind of local information for their trip, upon initiative of the Samoa Tourism Board
Oceania Samoa 76 electric vehicles to be used for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting were presented by the Government of Samoa, in collaboration with the Government of Japan and the United Nations Development Programme
Oceania Samoa Archbishop Mosese Vitolio Tui, leader of the Catholic Church in Samoa, questioned the moral compass of those who stood by while an innocent student was beaten for no reason, calling for action to put an end to fights
Oceania Samoa The local journalists' association wrote to the Prime Minister to express its grievances over the restrictions imposed on the fourth sector at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
Oceania Samoa The Kirikiti Samoa championship kicked off as part of the Teuila festival celebrations at the Methodist Compound in Faleula
Oceania Samoa The ‘Tour of Samoa’ cycling race successfully concluded among Samoan cyclists who shared their enthusiasm for the initiative
Oceania Samoa A proposal was made to set up a Drug Control Council, with the task of monitoring drugs entering national borders, with particular attention to ingredients used in the production of illicit drugs
Oceania Samoa There are differing opinions among speakers of the Sāmoan language on the use of certain diacritical marks and glottal stops that indicate specific pronunciations; the debate occurs in New Zealand