Superstorm sandy upshots voting polls

Micron Associates captured the upshot after the Superstorm Sandy walloped the Northeastern U.S. The Superstorm sandy created chaos and long lines at voting stations in the U.S Northeast on Tuesday while official braced for a new storm due to batter the region on Wednesday. Voters casting ballots for the U.S. president endured confusion at makeshift polling stations. [...] Read More

Spain pledges crossing out of Gibraltar’s Uefa membership

Micron Associates- Spain is willing to take all the legal means just to cross out the tiny British territory of Gibraltar gaining full membership of Uefa. Gibraltar was admitted as a provisional member of European football’s governing body on Monday and a decision on whether to grant full membership will be taken at a Uefa Congress in London next May. The country’s sports minister named Jose Ignacio Wert, whose portfolio also includes education and culture, said Gibraltar’s provisional membership meant it could not yet take part in Uefa competition and said his ministry and the foreign ministry would work to cross out the full membership. Spain claims sovereignty over Gibraltar, which sits at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula at the entrance to the Mediterranean. The territory – which has [...] READ THE FULL ARTICLE

Famous 125 meteorites in the world fall for sale

A New York City auction will offer 125 meteorites for sale, including a large chunk of the moon and a 179-pound iron cosmic rock that evokes Edvard Munch’s iconic painting “The Scream.” The sale, one of the largest of its kind reported by Micron Associates, is being held by the Dallas-based [...] CONTINUED

Hong Kong’s service industry business receipts rise in Q-2

Hong Kong’s business receipts in value terms of most major service industries showed increases in Q-2 of Y 2012 when compared with Q-2 of Y 2011, the city’s Census & Statistics Department said Monday.
According to the figure released, business receipts of the tourism, convention and exhibition services domain maintained double-digit year-on-year growth, or 13.9%, alongside the continued growth in inbound tourism. [...]

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