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By Test Reporter • 27 June 2023, 1:08PM

Tyron Lam, 6, dreams of national duties

KLAS Taekwondo had its last grading for the year as it nears the Christmas Holidays. Twenty nine students of the KLAS Dojo performed before their parents as their Instructors Tapunu'u Kaino Thomsen Fuataga and brother Fritz Thomsen Fuataga judged the students.

By Gutu Faasau • 17 December 2022, 7:24PM

Welcome our heroes

Scores of Samoans lined up outside the Faleolo International Airport on Tuesday night to welcome their heroes, the Toa Samoa players.

By The Editorial Board • 29 December 2022, 6:00AM

Let's clean and prepare for Toa Samoa

Street Talk | How can Samoa honour and show respect to the Toa Samoa during the Toa Samoa visit? Reporter Jean Datsun Tuimauga and Photographer Rashmi Lameta talk to the public.

By Jean Datsun Tuimauga • 13 December 2022, 4:30AM

The Unique Characteristics And Vulnerabilities Of Small Islands Developing States

The recognition of the special circumstances of Small Islands Developing States is a key position of Pacific islands delegations at the biodiversity negotiations now underway at 15th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) in Montreal, Canada.

By Nanette Woonton • 15 December 2022, 12:00PM

Aussie science students visit SPREP

More than 20 students and teachers from the University of Newcastle paid a visit to the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) in November in a bid to learn more about the Pacific’s premier regional organisation for the protection of the environment, and the work they to address important issues faced by the Pacific such as sustainability and climate change.

By SPREP • 13 December 2022, 3:00AM

How Immigration New Zealand has ruined our Christmas

The last two weeks have been an awful time for our family, as we struggled to get urgent information from the NZ Immigration Samoa Office in Apia on the status of our VISA applications to enter New Zealand and spend Christmas with families that we have not seen for more than 2 years due to COVID border closures.

29 December 2022, 2:00PM

Peer Pressure

Column | Let’s not forget about peer pressure on not just teenagers but adults too. So many things can go wrong, many decisions will waver and many intended ’nos’ will turn to ‘yes’ due to the need to conform.

By Enid Westerlund. • 11 December 2022, 2:00PM