The Latest Breaking News from Samoa

With a love and preservation of ancient arts, glamourpuss beaches, affordable hut life and some of the best swimming spots on the planet, Samoa cannot reopen soon enough for Lucie Grace

Washington intends to return the U.S. Peace Corps to Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, and Vanuatu, citing progress toward reestablishing a U.S. Agency for International Development regional mission for the Pacific in Fiji.

The 26-year-old prop is eligible to represent Australia, Fiji and Samoa.

The latest rugby headlines and news bulletins from Wales and beyond

Rising debt and declining income seem to add up to an austere future for Pacific Island nations. But belt-tightening may make things worse.

Tonga face Samoa in the Pacific Nations Cup on Saturday

World Cup organisers hope to sell out Newcastle United's stadium when England take on Samoa, one of four Rugby League World Cup games in the city

Aix-en-Provence (France) (AFP) - Pene Pati remembers his teachers at university telling him: "Don't be ashamed if you don't make it because a lot of Pacific singers won't." In fact, they added, no one from Samoa had ever become an opera star.

Potentially serious faults in Guardian-class patrol boats may force some countries to pause use of vessels

Until his cousin, Bernard Afutiti, visited from the mainland nearly five years ago, the notion of playing college football had never occurred to Tyrone Taleni. And why would it? Taleni didn't know football. He'd neither played nor spent any time watching the sport. Sure, football might be ingrained into the…

It's easy to be cynical about international rugby league, but the emotions on show at Campbelltown were so real and raw it could convert the game's harshest critics, writes Nick Campton.