Samoan director Tusi Tamasese's debut feature "The Orator" enters the Academy Award conversation. By Pip Bulbeck The debut film from Tusi Tamasese, starring Sanote, is the first to be shot in the ...

Brad Mika ... Important to "know what Aotearoa is all about, but that we also know where our parents came from." SUPER rugby star Brad Mika's favourite Samoan word is ...

Towering, yet soft-spoken, Samoan Father Pale Schmidt is gently calling Samoans in Anchorage back to their spiritual homeland — the Catholic Church. Using the native language of the tiny Pacific ...