Samoa

Samoa Airways will take out a loan from the Unit Trust of Samoa so it can partly settle redundancy pay for staff.

The Samoa government is questioning how seasonal workers were allowed to leave Samoa for New Zealand this week without approval.

The Samoa Law Society has joined a court challenge by two senior members of the opposition Human Rights Protection Party against the Speaker of Parliament.

Samoa's former Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has accused New Zealand of drawing more attention towards "geopolitical issues to satisfy its ego for cheap popularity".

The Samoan Government has appealed a decision by District Court Judge Mata'utia Raymond Schuster to discharge two men without conviction who pleaded guilty to causing injury.

A Samoan student has been selected for the highly competitive NASA information and computer science programme.

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The Manu rugby sevens team will open Team Samoa's account at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Friday against England.

After two years Samoa has removed its Covid-19 state of emergency ahead of opening its national borders on August 1.