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  • "It will be really confusing for us. I just don't see the point, and we don't know the benefits yet," multimedia company official Laufa Lesa, 30, told the Associated Press in an interview from the Samoan capital, Apia. "The government says it's good for the economy, but it's totally fine the way it is now."

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