TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
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LEAD STORY:
Prof Jane Kelsey Examines WTO: Where To From Here?
NEW ZEALAND LEAD STORY: Trade And Enterprise NZ Takes Shape
NEW ZEALAND NEWS HEADLINES:
White House Turns Aggression Sights On Syria Again
Bosnian Serb Gets War Crimes Sentence Doubled
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES:
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Mass Evacuations In Advance Of Hurricane's Landfall
The Hutton Inquiry Resumes
Stateside: Rosalea In Oklahoma
Daily Katya Rivas
OTHER NEWS (Just Politics)
Greens Policy On Privy Council Inconsistent
Police MP Interview Called A Contempt Of Parliament
Protester's Police File Pulled – Winston Suspicious
Govt. Response To Biotech Report Announced
Rubbing Waiting Lists Out No Solution
Radar Removal Endangers Air Travellers
NZ Diplomatic Relations With Afghanistan Strengthened
Drug Tested For Slacking Off
Tougher Exhaust Standards In Pipeline
Sustainability Council Wrong On GE Issue - Hobbs
More Money For Kids And Families
Free Holidays For Immigrants Rankle With Winston
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Hurricance Isabel's Landfall Approaches
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TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS------------
Scoop Is In The House
– For today's questions for oral answer see... Questions for Oral Answer - Thursday, 18 September [1] . ALSO: - Wednesday's Questions & Answers [2] & Tuesday's Questions & Answers [3] .
LEAD STORY:
Prof Jane Kelsey Examines WTO: Where To From Here?
- This week, cocooned in the luxury resort of Cancun, Mexico for the fifth ministerial meeting of the World Trade
Organisation (WTO), the Caribbean, African and other ‘least developed’ countries told the European Union, United States
and Japan that ‘no means no’... See... Reflections On Cancun: Where To From Here? [1] . ALSO: Images - Cancun – The View From Behind The Barricades and Puerto Juarez And The Cancun Hotel Zone
NEW ZEALAND LEAD STORY:
Trade And Enterprise NZ Takes Shape - New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Client Services Group Manager Lance Wickman has appointed nine team directors at the
New Zealand Government's new trade and economic development agency, formed on 1 July from the merger of Trade New
Zealand and Industry New Zealand. See… NZ Trade and Enterprise Client Services Team Directors Appointed [1]
NZ HEADLINES:
RBNZ Board chair elected [1] Commerce Commission recommends local loop unbundling [2] Draft Unbundling Recommendation Illogical - Telecom [3] Gold Medal Winner Sarah Ulmer Assists Habitat For Humanity [4] Macky Set to Qualify Class for Olympics [5] Sightings of fires and vehicles sought by Police on Coral Burrows inquiry Infrastructure Auck offers further $11.6m For Healthy Harbour [6] Proposed Settlement Reached With Five Sth Island DHBs [7] Waikato University Rowing Skipper Tackles Atlantic [8]
White House Turns Aggression Sights On Syria Again
- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters September 16 that Syria "has a history and continues to
harbor and assist terrorists and terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and
others." See... White House Calls Syria's Behavior "Unacceptable" [1] ALSO: U.S. Concerned by Syria's WMD Capabilities [2] Scoop Flashback Report: Is destiny or idiocy driving the USA into an Arab-Zionist war?
Bosnian Serb Gets War Crimes Sentence Doubled
- Ruling on appeals filed by both the defence and prosecution, the United Nations war crimes court in The Hague today
doubled to 15 years the jail term imposed on the Bosnian Serb warden of a notorious prison in eastern Bosnia and
Herzegovina on charges including the murder and torture of non-Serbs. See... UN war crimes court doubles Serb's sentence [1]
INTERNATIONAL NEWS HEADLINES:
United Nations UN Radio: General Assembly President Calls for Action-Session [1] Liberia: UN sends food to tens of thousands [2] UN Assisted Timor-Leste To Maintain Stability [3] Junta Commander In Sierra Leone Court Custody [4] Viet Nam: Refugee Monk's arrest a mockery [5] Middle East PNA Holds US Responsible for Consequences of Veto [6] United Nations: USA Vetos Resolution That Would Have Preventing Arafat's Expulsion [7] European Union France Govt Daily Press Briefing [8] Schröder for rapid resumption of WTO talks [9] Asia Pacific S. Korea Urged to Reject U.S. Demand [10] Seoul Praises North Korea's Reform Push [11] U.S. & Sth Korea Cooperate on Advanced Nuclear Energy Tech [12] Vanuatu PM Vows To Maintain Media Freedom [13]
SCOOP COLUMNS:
Mass Evacuations In Advance Of Hurricane's Landfall
- Cloud formations on the edges of Hurricane Isabel are now over the US mainland. The eye of Isabel is following
roughly 30 hours behind these fringes – with landfall expected 2pm Thursday EST (Friday Morning NZT). See... Super Computer Weather: Isabel Nears US East Coast [1]
The Hutton Inquiry Resumes
- Today five witness were called: Detective Constable Coe first police officer at site of Dr. Kelly’s death, Dr.
Nicolas Hunt a pathologist who examined Dr. Kelly, Martin Howard former head of communications and director of news at
the Inquiry, Dr. Andrew Shuttleworth Dr. Kelly’s Resource Manager at MOD Porton Down and Kate Wilson Chief Press Officer
at the MOD. See... Streets of London: Hutton Inquiry Update - Day 17 [1] MORE: - Streets Of London: Hutton Inquiry Resumed [2] - SOL: Hutton Inquiry - Monday 15th September [3] Fore earlier coverage of the Hutton Inquiry CLICK HERE [4] .
Stateside: Rosalea In Oklahoma
- OKC is in the South. It mightn't look that way on the map, but that is the undeniable feel and look of the place.
Like the cab driver told me, this city is run by good ole boys and they take pains to keep it like a small rural town:
See... Stateside with Rosalea: Oklahoma City [1]
Daily Katya Rivas
- I have promised Celestial Glory to all, who denying themselves for My Love, arrive at the door through which one
enters salvation. See... Katya Rivas: If You Submerge Yourselves in Me [1]
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Cancun – The View From Behind The Barricades
Puerto Juarez And The Cancun Hotel Zone
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OTHER NEWS (JUST POLITICS)------------
Greens Policy On Privy Council Inconsistent
- The Greens have turned their back on their own Maori policy in supporting Labour over the abolition of appeals to the
Privy Council, said Dail Jones, justice spokesperson for New Zealand First. See... Greens Reject Maori Policy On Supreme Court Bill [1] MORE ON PRIVY COUNCIL: - ACT - What Drives The Law Society On Privy Council? [2] - NZ First - Maori Won’t Be Privy To Anything [3] - NZ First - Supreme Court Still Flawed Says Peters [4] - United Future - United Welcomes Judicial Appointments Procedure [5] EARLIER: - NZ Supreme Court has majority support [6] - National - United Future flip-flops on Supreme Court [7] - Greens - Greens Hail Supreme Step Forward For New Zealand [8] - Business Roundtable - No Consensus on Supreme Court Bill [9]
Police MP Interview Called A Contempt Of Parliament
- National has filed applications in Parliament to treat as a contempt the actions of Detective Inspector Stephen
Vaughan, who entered Parliament on 9 September to question National MP Shane Ardern in respect of possible criminal
charges. See... National looks for answers in Ardern case [1]
Protester's Police File Pulled – Winston Suspicious
New Zealand First Leader Rt Hon Winston Peters is seeking an assurance that a police file taken from Lower Hutt to
Wellington last night was not used for political purposes. See... Police File Pulled - Please Explain [1] and ACT... Protest At Parliament - The Right Place [2]
Govt. Response To Biotech Report Announced
- A new $12 million fund to support trans-Tasman joint ventures in biotechnology is part of the Government's response
to the report of the Biotechnology Taskforce, Science Minister Pete Hodgson announced today. See... New trans-Tasman biotech fund in Govt response [1] , CHART: Implementing Biotech Taskforce’s Recommendations [2] and. Growing biotechnology in New Zealand [3]
Rubbing Waiting Lists Out No Solution
- The Health Minister yet again blaming National for current elective surgery waiting lists is cold comfort for the
almost 2000 patients culled off waiting lists with no hope of an operation, says National Deputy Leader Roger Sowry.
See... Govt culls waiting lists to paint rosier picture [1]
Radar Removal Endangers Air Travellers
- National Party Defence spokesman Simon Power fears the safety of air travellers is being put at risk by the removal
of Ohakea's primary surveillance radar by Airways Corporation. See... Air safety at risk after radar removal [1]
NZ Diplomatic Relations With Afghanistan Strengthened
- New Zealand's Ambassador to Iran Niels Holm presented his credentials in Kabul as part of the deepening ties between
New Zealand and Afghanistan, Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Jim Sutton said today. See... NZ Accreditation To Kabul Strengthens Ties [1]
Drug Tested For Slacking Off
- Nelson College is turning down a dangerous and reprehensible path of suspecting - to the point of accusing - its
students of doing drugs because their performance might be dropping, said Green MP Metiria Turei. See... "Mucking around" no excuse for drug-test [1]
Tougher Exhaust Standards In Pipeline
- The government has taken the next step towards combating our “invisible” road toll with the signing of the Vehicle
Exhaust Emissions Rule, Associate Transport Minister Judith Tizard announced today. See... Vehicle emissions standards to be phased in [1] and New exhaust rules will save lives, say Greens [2]
Sustainability Council Wrong On GE Issue - Hobbs
- The Sustainability Council is wrong to claim that the government has postponed co-existence work and that this will
lead to an officially tolerated presence of genetically modified material, Environment Minister Marian Hobbs said today.
See... Sustainability Council jumps to wrong conclusions [1]
More Money For Kids And Families
- More than 900 community service organisations will receive funding totalling nearly $90 million in this financial
year to provide services for children, young people and families, Child, Youth and Family Minister Ruth Dyson said
today. See... More funding for CYF community organisations [1]
Free Holidays For Immigrants Rankle With Winston
- New Zealand First has asked the Government to explain why a Thai couple are getting a holiday to Thailand and free
adult education as beneficiaries of New Zealand taxpayers. See... Immigrant Holidays At Taxpayers’ Expense [1]
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