Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Samoa (; Samoan: Sāmoa, ), officially the Independent State of Samoa (Samoan: Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Sāmoa), formerly known as Western Samoa, is a country encompassing the western part of the Samoan Islands in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Car horns and sirens sounded, church bells rang out and roads were crowded with vehicles and smiling drivers Monday as Samoa marked its official switch to left-side driving.
Hundreds lined streets in the capital, Apia, to witness the switch from the right to the left on the country's highways as police manned scores of checkpoints, warning drivers to slow down.The government is using the move to bring Samoa in line with Australia and New Zealand to encourage some of the 170,000 expatriate Samoans there to ship used cars „ with steering wheels on the right side „ home to relatives.Despite opponents' predictions of chaos, there were no immediate signs of driving difficulties. Critics of the change had accused the government of pushing it through without adequately preparing drivers.The switch from right to left side driving was being ushered in with a two-day national holiday to cut traffic volumes and a three-day ban on alcohol sales to avoid road crashes.National Council of Churches cha...
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Anthropologist Elinor Ochs and her colleagues at the University of California, Los Angeles have studied family life as far away as Samoa and the Peruvian Amazon regi...
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Samoa says it will release 35 prisoners as an act of forgiveness as it celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence.Samoa's head of state made the announcement Fr...
Residents prayed for calm as Samoa prepared Monday to become the first country in nearly 40 years to switch driving from one side of the road to the other.Critics ha...
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SAMOA — The USGS says a 6.2-magnitude earthquake has hit the Samoa Islands region.The quake struck 123 miles from the Samoa islands at a depth of 19 miles.Police in ...
Sometime in the early morning hours of Sept. 7, residents of this small Pacific island nation will stop their cars, take a deep breath, and do something most people ...
Three years ago I embarked on my first solo travel experience, a nine-day reporting trip to Samoa I was 23, fresh out of college and eager to see what the world had ...
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