Samoan actor KJ Apa and girlfriend Clara Berry welcome new baby boy
Congratulations to Samoan actor KJ Apa and his partner, French model Clara Berry who welcomed a baby boy into the world last week.
Clara announced the news on her instagram this morning, also sharing the name of their baby - Sasha Vai Keneti Apa.
KJ also released his new album "Clocks" over the weekend.
KJ says of the album in an instagram post "CLOCKS. This music represents a piece of myself - my past, my future and my present ...
Thank you to my mother @tessaapa for always helping & inspiring me to write. @jamiekuse for mastering, @jeanseledoujet for your magic and @clara.berry for taking my love for you to another dimension this week"
It's his 2nd album - he released his own instrumental rock album called "The Third Room" when he was only 14 years old.
Clocks is out now on all streaming platforms and you can check it out on Spotify below.…more
Rebecca Sang Yum shares her experience after testing positive for Covid
* TW COVID/Tubes/Hospital Images.
Young Samoan woman Rebecca Sang Yum is based in Sydney. She tested positive for Covid and shares her frightening experience after she was admitted to hospital.
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Some of you may or may not know but I tested positive for COVID and was diagnosed with severe COVID pneumonitis. I was admitted to Liverpool Hospital and was taken care of by the doctors and nurses in ICU. The inflammation of my lungs as a result of COVID made it almost impossible for me to breathe. Every day and night I had nasal prongs in-connected to oxygen so that I could still operate. I had a urinary catheter inserted in me, wore adult diapers and got changed and dressed by the nurses.
I couldn’t eat and my body was weak. I had fevers, a productive cough, sore throat, chills, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. Most times I felt like I was suffocating and that when I close my eyes I wouldn’t wake up.…more
Pasifika students create website to help Kiwis pronounce names correctly
Faamalosi.com CEOs To'e Lokeni and Mannfred Sofara from Bishop Viard College in Porirua, along with 8 other Year 12 students have created a website designed to help people correctly pronounce Maori and Pasifika names.
“We’d like to see commentators use this as a tool,” Sofara said "Just so our Pasifika brothers have their names pronounced correctly.”
Check out the website here
There's a one off $4.99 subscription fee but then you get unlimited access to the site from then on.
The first Pacific Member of New Zealand Parliament, Taito Phillip Field has passed away
* Cover image via Radio New Zealand
Members of the Samoan community today are mourning the passing of Taito Phillip Field, our first Pacific member of parliament and a stalwart Samoan political through the 90's until 2008.
Taito represented as an MP for Ōtara and then for Māngere in 1996. He left the Labour Party in 2007 amidst inter party conflict and returned to Parliament as an independent.
Taito's long political career was marred by controversy, following charges of bribery and perverting the course of justice over the infamous 'Thai Tiler' affair.…more
#FitnessInTheFale - Learn this dance routine with 'The Royal Family's' Kaea Pearce
Royal Family Dance Crew member Kaea Pearce takes us through a hip hop based dance routine, starting with a warm up.
Follow along with Kaea as she breaks down the steps and then dance the full choreographed routine with her at the end!
Upload your videos and be sure to tag both us and Kaea in the videos - we'd love to see how you go!
Tony Finau - My Why
“Athletes are often perceived as being somewhat one-dimensional. But, I’m also a dad, a husband, an avid sports fan, a lover of food and music; as well as many other things. It’s the combination of these things that drives me to get the most out of every day.” - Tony Finau, PGA TOUR Champion
Do What You Love. More.
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At the end of April 2023, Tony Finau won the Mexico Open clinching his fourth win in his last 18 starts to jump five places to world No. 11 beating World #1 Jon Rahm.
Hours after clinching the Mexico Open title, the American was back out on the greens at the nearby Lakes Course, caddying for two of his sons during some night-time par three action.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who's watched Tony in the Netflix doco 'Full Swing'.
Catch Tony in Episode 6 of Netflix' PGA tour doco series 'Full Swing'
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One review of the doco series & Tony Finau here -
“I don’t know where else we could have gone” – Emergency Housing for Pacific families
via Pasifika Medical Association Group
"I don’t know where else we could’ve got this help, with the way we were provided with food and accommodation. I don’t know where else we could have gone." - Citizen Halafihi and his family have been so appreciative of the help and support they've received from both Pasifika Futures and the Fono after he was unable to return home after quarantining in MIQ facilities.
When he came out, members of his family were having to self-isolate due to being at a location of interest.
The use of self-isolation for Delta containment has added additional stress for some Pacific families as their circumstances have sometimes made it difficult to comply with health authority directives.
Pasifika Futures (PFL) - the Whanau Ora commissioning agency for Pacific families – are conscious of this and similar challenges so throughout this entire period have provided where appropriate and necessary - emergency accommodation for Pacific individuals and families affected by the Delta outbreak.…more
JASON MOMOA - Dune Awaits: Becoming Duncan Idaho
Jason Momoa gives us a sneak peak at getting ready and training to become Duncan Idaho in the upcoming blockbuster movie "DUNE"
Pacific Islands Dance Class Pt3
Our Pacific Dance teacher Charlene Tedrow of 'Ura Tabu' is back to get us moving while we're at home on lockdown.
Be sure to try out her first two classes in the links below.
Get fit and learn these beautiful Pacific dance moves at the same time!
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Island Dance Class Pt1
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-talanoa/health-well-being/island-dance-classes/
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Island Dance Class Pt2
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-talanoa/health-well-being/island-dance-classes-pt2/
#FitnessInTheFale - Learn this dance routine with 'The Royal Family's Justyce Petelo
Samoan/Maori dancer Justyce Petelo takes you through an "easy, cute" dance routine you can learn at home!
'The Royal Family' dancer breaks down all the steps for you right here and then you can dance it through with him at the end.
Upload your videos doing the routine and tag in both @theCoconetTV and @JustycePetelo on Instagram so we can see how you're doing and share with our Coco fam!