APIA, Samoa, July 31 (Reuters) - Keyonce Lee Hang is busy finishing preparations for the to'ona'i, a traditional lunch served after Sunday church in Samoa, and attending to her elderly, bed-ridden ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Samoa went to the polls Friday in a critical election that could decide the future of the Pacific Island nation’s first woman leader, who called the vote after her government ...

APIA, SamoaAPIA, Samoa — Sirens wailed and fireworks exploded in the skies over Samoa as the tiny South Pacific nation jumped forward in time, crossing westward over the international date line and ...

APIA, Samoa – Samoa plans to leap 24 hours into the future, erasing a day and putting a new kink in the Pacific's jagged international date line so that it can be on the same weekday as Australia, New ...

SYDNEY, July 5 (Reuters) - Samoa opened the July international window with a 33-25 win over Italy in steamy Apia on Friday, rallying from a 10-point deficit in the second half to hand the Azurri a ...

APIA, Samoa (AP) – Samoa says it will release 35 prisoners as an act of forgiveness as it celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence. Samoa’s head of state made the announcement Friday as he ...

Ahead of the official opening of the United Nations conference on small island developing countries, the UN and Samoan flags were raised on Saturday over the site in the capital, Apia, that will host ...

July 7 (Reuters) - A long, hard struggle for rugby equality may have won it's biggest victory with the All Blacks facing Samoa in Apia for the first time this week, though locals are still asking ...

Working on an accelerated schedule with just 14 months to prepare, the city of Apia, Samoa, is ready to welcome its neighbors of the South Pacific. There will be 22 island nations of the South Pacific ...