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In 1983, the couple sold Samoa News and founded a new weekly publication, the Samoa Journal and Advertiser. [2] In 1981, Samoa News was the major newspaper distributed in both of the Samoas. In January 1985, Lewis Wolman became editor of Samoa News. The Samoa News Ltd. was established in 1986, with Fuga Teleso as the majority shareholder.
The 2019 Samoa measles outbreak began in September 2019. [5] As of 6 January 2020, over 5,700 cases of measles and 83 deaths had been reported, out of a population of 200,874, [ 4 ] [ 6 ] over three per cent. [ 7 ]
This is a list of newspapers in Samoa. [1] Savali; Le Samoa; Samoa Observer; Samoa Times; Samoanische Zeitung; Talamua Magazine; Samoa Times and South Sea Advertiser ...
Tonga Trench south of the Samoa Islands and north of New Zealand. The 2009 Samoa earthquake and tsunami killed more than 170 people in the Samoa Islands and Tonga. The M8.1 submarine earthquake took place in the region at 06:48:11 local time on September 29, 2009 (17:48:11 UTC, September 29), followed by smaller aftershocks. [27]
Pula was born in American Samoa. [2] He is the youngest son of 12 children and his father was the first Samoan Director of Education. [3] [4] He grew up in the village of Utulei and attended Utulei elementary school. [2] He later attended Marist Brothers High School where he graduated in 1974 and was the class valedictorian. [2]
23 January – Samoa and China sign a new visa exemption agreement. [ 4 ] 29 January – Authorities seize 10 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine from a shipping container that arrived from the United States and arrest three people in what is reported as the "largest known drug smuggling operation" in the country.
He later became a Senator within the American Samoa Senate, where he served as the body's senate president from 2005 until 2008. [5] Moliga, while still a member of the Senate, considered a candidacy in the 2008 gubernatorial election , but withdrew from the race before announcing a potential running mate, citing existing commitments.
Samoa, [note 1] officially the Independent State of Samoa [note 2] and known until 1997 as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is an island country in Polynesia, consisting of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands (Manono and Apolima); and several smaller, uninhabited islands, including the Aleipata Islands (Nuʻutele, Nuʻulua, Fanuatapu and Namua).