American Samoa

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.

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.