Weigh more, pay more we kid you not

Samoan-born, New Zealand-based choreographer Lemi Ponifasio can't remember what sort of birds they were, but he did see a flock over the Pacific island of Tarawa with black magnetic tape in their beaks. The sight of birds transporting rubbish was a ...

Australian Federal Police officer Andy Warton will set out on Saturday on a dangerous kayak journey around Samoa to raise awareness about the nation's high rate of youth suicide. He has been inspired to make the first circumnavigation of the nation ...

Source: Supplied YOU know something has gone wrong with the notion of a user-pays society when airlines start announcing they will charge passengers extra for being overweight. This is particularly true when the airline making the changes is Samoa ...

'Pay only for what you weigh!'' is the catchy new slogan at Samoa Air, where ''the sky's the limit'' for fat and thin flyers alike. The small Pacific Island airline's ''air fair'' fare is based on the combined weight of each passenger and their ...

At the risk of making an astonishingly bad pun, aviation has a weighty issue on its hands. Samoa Air, the lilliputian airline that services the small Pacific island nation and some near neighbours has lately become the world's first carrier to ...

Samoan Minister of Finance Faumuina Tiatia Liuga has acted illegally and the Attorney General should file charges against him. At a media conference Tuesday Opposition leader Palusalue Faapo II led a call by his Tautua Samoa Party for the Attorney ...

Samoa PM Wins Battle Over Minister, Hasn't Won The War: MP Tension within ruling HRPP party continues after caucus vote APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, May 18, 2013) Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi may have won the battle to keep his ...

Rhonda Annesley, Editor in Chief & the Samoa News Editorial Staff The Fono expense report for the first 5 months of FY2013 is a melting pot of expenditures by leaders and most of the lawmakers of our territory that can only be labeled as abuse of ...

ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank has yet to respond to a lawsuit filed by Tapai Tervola, a customer who is asking for $150 million on allegations of fraud, discrimination, forgery, identity theft, fraudulent concealment or non disclosure of material facts, ...