Tag: Samoa Observer
Samoa Observer: 2023 World Press Freedom Day – reflection, celebration
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
There will be celebrations as well as self-contemplation in newsrooms around the world today to mark World Press...
Samoa Observer: Pandora Papers show tax reform vital, but not just...
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
How strange that an Australian should have emerged as the face of Samoa in the Pandora Papers...
Samoa Observer: The fallacy of a nuclear submarine deal for peace
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
It perhaps wasn’t a remarkable coincidence that last month Samoa’s former Ambassador to the United Nations called on...
Samoa Observer: A feminist plot? No, just refusal to accept the...
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
It would be an understatement to say that we are stunned to see that the Human Rights Protection...
Samoa Observer: The ‘failed state’ fallacy and HRPP propaganda
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer Editorial Board
It has become obvious in recent weeks that the strategy of Samoa’s oldest political party is to “repeat...
Tuila’epa supporters demonstrate over ‘disintegration’ of Samoa constitution
By Soli Wilson in Apia
Heavy rain early today failed to deter more than 1000 Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) supporters who gathered in front...
Samoa Observer: For Tuila’epa, what follows defeat?
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
When Australia’s second-longest ever serving Prime Minister faced a complete wipeout at the national elections after 10 years...
Samoa Observer: The nation’s chief justice – a gift from above
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
How quickly things change.
If, as the old cliche goes, a week is a long time in politics then...
Samoa Observer: Swearing-in strengthens nation’s foundation
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer Editorial Board
What a shame it had to happen as it did.
Fiame Naomi Mata'afa taking the oath of office to...
Samoa Supreme Court hears FAST party challenge over shock edict
RNZ Pacific
An urgent legal challenge against a shock proclamation by the Samoan head of state is being heard in the Supreme Court Chambers in...
Samoa Observer: Silence tears down a nation
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer editorial board
The caretaker Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Dr Sa'ilele Malielegaoi, thinks the newspaper you hold in your hands is dedicated...
Award-winning editor of Samoa Observer resigns after 22 years
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk
Award-winning editor Mata'afa Keni Lesa is moving on from the Samoa Observer after 22 years, reports Samoa Global News.
Mata’afa Keni Lesa...
Samoan PM Tuilaepa attacks Observer over criticism of media ban
By Mata'afa Keni Lesa in Apia
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has attacked the Samoa Observer, accusing the nation’s only daily newspaper of being...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Samoan politics and criminal libel – stay tuned
By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer
It’s all happening in Samoa today.
For such a small country, there really is no dull moment.
With...
JAWS president backs call to abolish Samoa’s criminal libel law
By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu in Apia
Rudy Bartley, president of the Journalist Association of Samoa (JAWS), has supported the international call for Samoa’s government to abolish...
Tuilaepa accuses Pohiva of being ‘jello’ over Samoan press freedom
By Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu
Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielelgaoi has accused his Tongan counterpart 'Akilisi Pohiva of being "jello" - jealous - of Samoa's media freedom...
Mata’afa Keni Lesa: Cyclone Gita’s over but remember Ofa’s vengeance
OPINION: By Mata'afa Keni Lesa, editor of the Samoa Observer
Tropical Cyclone Gita has left just as quickly as it arrived on Friday night and...
Research explores media practice, freedom of the press in Samoa
By Joshua Lafoai in Apia
A research paper by a National University of Samoa lecturer warns media freedom in Samoa still faces many challenges.
Media freedom...
Call for Pacific writers – the 2017 Samoa Observer Tusitala prizes
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk
Prestige, financial prizes and the chance for your story to be read worldwide. This is what lies ahead for authors of...
Kalafi Moala: A word on the Samoa Observer suicide report
Le Va, in partnership with Pasifika media, has launched the "Pasifika media guidelines for reporting suicide". This whiteboard video provides an overview.
OPINION: By Kalafi...
Samoa’s Ombudsman on complaints over Observer story
Samoa's Office of the Ombudsman has received a number of complaints in relation to the controversial article “Suicide in Church Hall” published on the...
Sunday Samoan condemned for ‘disgusting, degrading’ reporting of death
Le Va, in partnership with Pasifika media, has launched the "Pasifika media guidelines for reporting suicide". This whiteboard video provides an overview. See Samoa...