Catherine Laga'aia plays Moana in the live-action version of the movie, and fans are curious about her ethnicity in relation ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

Samoa's first woman leader, Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, has failed to win a majority in the Pacific nation's elections this week, results showed Friday, capping months of political infighting. The Barron's ...

Samoa’s first female Prime Minister-elect has had a strange inaugural week in office. When Fiame Naomi Mata’afa turned up to the Pacific island nation’s Parliament on Monday to be sworn in, she found ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Samoa’s incumbent ruling party will return to power with a new leader at the helm after the first woman prime minister was toppled in elections that followed months of ...

An author in Samoa has been charged with murdering another prominent Samoan writer, who was also the aunt of former U.S. congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, authorities in the South Pacific island nation ...

The knife-edge election follows months of political tumult and the outcome could set a fresh direction for Samoa’s geopolitical engagement in the contested South Pacific Ocean. A failed vote prompted ...