{"id":37908,"date":"2021-10-11T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/pandora-papers-samoa-defends-its-offshore-industry-points-to-key-levers-in-bigger-countries"},"modified":"2021-10-11T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T04:36:43","slug":"pandora-papers-samoa-defends-its-offshore-industry-points-to-key-levers-in-bigger-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37908","title":{"rendered":"Pandora papers: Samoa defends its offshore industry, points to \u2018key levers\u2019 in bigger countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific country says it faces \u2018diabolical challenges\u2019 due to larger nations and that they play a much bigger role in controversial industry<\/p>\n<p>The financial regulator of Samoa, a Pacific nation implicated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/series\/pandora-papers\">Pandora papers<\/a> as a tax haven for wealthy individuals, has defended the country\u2019s involvement in the offshore industry and pointed the finger at \u201clarger economies\u201d such as the UK and Singapore for their role in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSamoa is a proud, law-abiding country that has suffered much due to its harsh colonial past and diabolical challenges that it now faces, such as climate change. Both calamities were brought on to us by larger countries that continue to enjoy much respect,\u201d said Tuifaasisina Sieni Tualega-Voorwinden, the chief executive officer of the Samoa International Finance Authority.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/11\/pandora-papers-samoa-defends-its-offshore-industry-points-to-key-levers-in-bigger-countries\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific country says it faces \u2018diabolical challenges\u2019 due to larger nations and that they play a much bigger role in controversial industryThe financial regulator of Samoa, a Pacific nation implicated in the Pandora papers as a tax haven for wealthy in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,874,2385,936,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-pandora-papers","category-samoa","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37909,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37908\/revisions\/37909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}