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Samoa: Back to the Future

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Samoa to jump forward in time by one day

 

( BBC ) The South Pacific island nation of Samoa is to jump forward in time by one day in order to boost its economy. Samoa will do this by switching to the west side of the international date line, which it says will make it easier for it to do business with Australia and New Zealand.
At present, Samoa is 21 hours behind Sydney. From 29 December it will be three hours ahead.
The change comes 119 years after Samoa moved in the opposite direction.
Then, it transferred to the east side of the international date line in an effort to aid trade with the US and Europe.
However, Australia and New Zealand have increasingly become Samoa's biggest trading partners.
Samoan Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi said: "In doing business with New Zealand and Australia, we're losing out on two working days a week.
"While it's Friday here, it's Saturday in New Zealand and when we're at church Sunday, they're already conducting business in Sydney and Brisbane."
Samoa is located approximately halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and has a Population of 180.000 people.

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(LN ) The provincial government's intention was to build a pilot plant for photovoltaic generation Ullum about 30 kilometers from the capital of San Juan.
The facility began construction last year, and was inaugurated on 18 April. Already operating at full capacity, with a generation of 1.2 MW are injected into the national interconnected grid. But the interesting thing in this case, it is the power of this plant in San Juan I, but a pilot plant is to be used for research.

(...) The province is betting on an ambitious project they have called "Solar San Juan", which aims to develop a technology center for photovoltaic systems that not only attract capital investment to generate power, but is able to produce, in the province, all you need, from silicon to solar panels.

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( La Vanguardia ) (...) Although it is aware of the doctrinal differences between Bin Laden, Al Qaeda and Hamas, Haniyeh insisted his conviction: "We condemn the murder and the death of an Arab holy warrior. We pray that God gives mercy to the true believers and martyrs."

contrast, Ghassan Al Khatib, Palestinian government spokesman in West Bank (Fatah) believes "it is a positive development that will help peace and security in the world." It also condemned "the radical beliefs of bin Laden," according to Sal Emergui.



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Deraa City is from Monday, 25 / 4 siege without water gasoline or electricity since the regime sent troops with tanks and snipers to quell the protests demanding the resignation of Assad.

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