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Documentary portrayal of a Sāmoan author becomes deeper story about mental health
Pacific Media Network
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Director Kimberlee Bassford set out to make a film about a respected Sāmoan writer, but instead found herself confronting deep-rooted taboos around mental illness in Pacific communities. The highly anticipated documentary Before the Moon Falls, an...
Tonga’s health system hacked, US$1m ransom demanded
Newstalk ZB
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June 27, 2025
Tonga has refused to pay a US$1 million ($1.6m) ransom after hackers seized control of the country’s health IT system. Hackers broke into Tonga’s national health database earlier this month, the Government said, locking out medical staff who have...
Miss Samoa USA is getting ready to pass the torch
FOX 13 Salt Lake City - Utah
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June 25, 2025
We met Miss Samoa USA, Josephina Lealaitafea, in the summer of 2024, shortly after she was crowned. Now, after serving in the role for almost a year, she's getting ready to pass the torch. Josephina was crowned on August 1, 2024 after a 15-year...
Samoa-born man shot and killed at ‘No Kings’ rally in Utah, police say
Northwest Asian Weekly - Washington State
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June 16, 2025
By JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press A man who was believed to be part of a peacekeeping team for the “No Kings” protest in Salt Lake City shot at a person who was brandishing a rifle at demonstrators, striking both the rifleman and a bystander who...
Fluent Volunteers in Samoa Language Join St John Caring Caller Programme
TP+
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June 23, 2025
Photo: Supplied Emotional support is now just a friendly “Talofa” away for the Samoan community in Aotearoa New Zealand. Hato Hone St John has announced the introduction of Samoan language to their popular Community Health programme: Caring...
Letters to the editor: RFK Jr. is a danger to American health; city shouldn’t spend a fortune on Iris; why didn’t Council mention Zionism in its statement?
Daily Camera - Colorado
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June 23, 2025
Secretary Kennedy is a danger to American health This regards the “retiring” of the 17 respected, scholarly members of the Advisory Panel on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This panel is responsible for reviewing data to decide who would benefit...
Harmony at the International Day of Yoga celebration at USP Samoa
Talamua
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June 22, 2025
By Dwayne Mahimkar* Apia, Samoa – 23 June 2025 – Samoa is among the first in the world to celebrate the 11th International Day of Yoga, held at the USP Samoa campus in Alafua early Saturday morning. Around 30+ people partook in this year’s Yoga...
Queen Camilla’s Health Struggles Revealed: Inside Royal Couple’s Battle Amid King Charles’ Incurable Cancer Diagnosis
The Health Site
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June 22, 2025
The Royal Household has been dealing with many health challenges, under which the Queen's health has been reported to have deteriorated. Queen Camilla’s Health Struggles Revealed: Inside the Royal Couple’s Battle Amid King Charles’ Incurable...
RFK Jr. Hires Vaccine Skeptics for Vaccine Panel, Because Modern Medicine Is for Suckers
Vanity Fair
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June 18, 2025
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced earlier this month that he was firing an entire panel of experts that makes recommendations about vaccines to the Centers for Disease Control, he boldly claimed that the new members he’d be handpicking would...
Team Samoa off to Palau despite cash issues
Samoa Observer
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The Samoa Association of Sports and the National Olympic Committee challenged the 46 athletes to the Palau 2025 Pacific Mini Games to bring 49 medals amidst financial challenges. President Tuaopepe Jerry Wallwork said they only received $168,000...
HRPP Unveils $32M SUPA Initiative to Empower Samoa’s Most Vulnerable
Talamua
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June 18, 2025
Apia, Samoa – 18 June 2025 – The Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) today launched the Special Underprivileged Populations’ Assistance (SUPA), the third pillar of its transformative Poverty Alleviation Project (PAP). With an annual investment of...
Digicel Pacific Partners with Samoa Deaf Association as Silver Sponsor for Samoa Men’s Deaf 7s Team
Samoa Global News
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June 16, 2025
Digicel Samoa has proudly announced its support as a Silver Sponsor of the Samoa Men’s Deaf 7s Team, who will represent Samoa at the Pacific Rim Deaf Rugby 7s in Australia from 28–29 June 2025. This partnership reflects Digicel’s ongoing...
Queen Camilla on 'her last legs'? Inside the ‘health issues’, the royal couple is fighting after King Charles’ ‘incurable’ cancer diagnosis
The Times of India
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The joy of the Trooping the Colours is just about to settle down. And there might be a rather grayish palette inside the British Royal Family now. Queen Camilla, reportedly, has been facing some health issues, and lately – those issues have only...
Tonight's rugby news as starlet leaves English club for Welsh side and Mike Phillips suggests Lions 'game-changer'
Wales Online
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July 10, 2025
Here are your rugby evening headlines for Thursday, July 10. Wales legend urges Lions to consider France tour Wales legend Mike Phillips has urged the British & Irish Lions to consider touring France in the future. Historically the Lions have only...
Australia rallies behind the Pacific in Push for Ambitious Plastics Treaty
Pacific News Service
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Australia has reaffirmed its commitment to working with Pacific island countries to secure a legally binding, meaningful and effective global treaty to end plastic pollution by 2040. Representatives progressed efforts during the Pacific Regional...
Sexually violent predator Richard Stobaugh denied release to Manila
Times-Standard - California
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July 9, 2025
On Wednesday, Judge Kaleb Cockrum issued a ruling vacating the 2023 conditional release order that would have placed serial rapist William Stobaugh in the Manila community via the California Department of State Hospitals’ (DSH) Conditional Release...
King Charles will die, but not of what everybody thinks: bombshell report states that his cancer is incurable
MARCA
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July 10, 2025
Since ascending the throne on September 8, 2022, King Charles III's health has been a rollercoaster, marked by a cancer diagnosis that's shaped his reign but hasn't stopped his hustle. At 76, the monarch's resilience is giving soap opera-level...
Kristen Gyles | The lure of greener pastures
The Gleaner
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July 11, 2025
Recently, I came across an interesting post on social media by an old acquaintance. He emigrated to Canada eight years ago, after completing his tertiary studies. He said he left Jamaica with only $50, his suitcase, a work permit and a dream. At...
How a Beetle Is Threatening Hawaii’s Culture and Climate Resilience
Earth.Org
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July 11, 2025
Before hotels and highways, the niu (Hawaiian for coconut) provided the Hawaiian people with shade, tools, and purpose. Its leaves danced in the wind and its roots were grounded into the earth with strength. However, a relentless menace looms over...
Silia ma le 15,000 le aofai o le atunuʻu e le’i resitalaina mo le palota
Samoa Global News
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July 8, 2025
E silia ma le 15,000 le aofai o le mamalu o le atunuu e le’i oo atu e resitala ina ua tapunia le taimi faatapulaaina sa tatalaina ai le Lola Palota a Samoa. I faamaumauga a le Ofisa o Faigapalota, mai le 117,225 o le atunuu ua agavaa ma sa tatau...