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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 24 August 2007

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Virgin, Pacific Blue Announce New Domestic Airline
Virgin Blue
Virgin Blue Airlines and its three year old New Zealand subsidiary Pacific Blue today announced major plans for a new domestic airline for New Zealand with NZD$39* fares on sale from today for flights commencing in November 2007. Initially the carrier ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00439.htm
2: UN Appoints A New Zealander To New Mission In Iraq
Andreas von Warburg
Scoop Exclusive: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced the appointment of a New Zealander, David Shearer, as the new Deputy Special Representative for Iraq. He will be in charge of humanitarian, reconstruction and development and will act ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00296.htm
3: Questions And Answers - Thursday, 23 August 2007
Office of the Clerk
1. Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Leader—National) to the Minister of Justice: Does he stand by his statement that the Electoral Finance Bill “will help promote participation in parliamentary democracy”; if so, why?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00439.htm
4: Western Australia’s Working – and needs NZ skills
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A team of recruiters is in the land of the long white cloud, offering lifestyle and employment opportunities for New Zealanders to join the boom in Western Australia. Western Australia is booming and thousands of jobs have been created for skilled ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00488.htm
5: www.mccully.co.nz - 24th August 2007
New Zealand National Party
These are testing, worrying times for many New Zealanders. Huge volatility in international share markets flow directly through this country. International currency markets are more unstable than we have seen in decades. And fallout from dramas in the US ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00435.htm
6: Fonterra Payout Forecast Up 87 cents to $6.40kg/MS
Fonterra
Fonterra Co-operative Group today announced a new payout forecast of $6.40 per kilogram of milksolids for the 2007/08 season, an 87 cent increase on its May forecast of $5.53 kg/MS.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00480.htm
7: ENSOC Undie 500
Canterbury Engineering Society
The University of Canterbury Engineering Society’s (ENSOC) Undie 500 pub crawl will be travelling down through towns from Christchurch to Dunedin on Friday the 24th of August. Riots in Dunedin were heavily publicised throughout New Zealand following ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0708/S00066.htm
8: Defence Flexes Its Muscles At Exercise Chong Ju
Australian Defence Force
The Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) demonstrated their latest combat weapons to Army officers and invited guests during Exercise CHONG JU at the Puckapunyal Military Area (PMA) today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00609.htm
9: Sexuality Education for Young New Zealanders
New Zealand Government
Youth Development Minister Nanaia Mahuta has welcomed the recommendations of the Education Review Office report on Sexuality Education for years 7 to 13. "A key recommendation is that young people be seen as partners in their own sexual education," said Nanaia ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00428.htm
10: Kiwis fighting poverty with paint
World Vision New Zealand
Artistic types around the country are using their skills to help children living in crisis situations overseas. Art 4 Aid is part of World Vision's youth programme, Rampant, and is designed to get Kiwis involved in fighting poverty by donating their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0708/S00279.htm
11: It's the company John Key keeps
New Zealand Government
Statements made by National leader John Key confirming his links with two businessmen involved in leaky buildings raise questions about the company he keeps, says Labour Cabinet Minister Pete Hodgson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00420.htm
12: Genesis Energy looks to add more wind
Genesis Energy
Genesis Energy has reached agreement with Unison Networks to investigate taking an equity share in Unison & Roaring 40s’ 147MW wind farm development in Hawkes Bay.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00456.htm
13: Michael Collins: Notes from the Underground Part 1
Michael Collins
Imagine a night at the theater.* A magician comes on stage with a corpse in tow. A doctor from the audience confirms that it is in fact the very real human corpse of a middle aged white male. The magician passes his hand over the corpse just once. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00284.htm
14: Telecom’s brand under threat over email outage
Auckland Chamber of Commerce
Confidence in the Telecom brand is in serious trouble over persistent difficulties many business customers are having in restoring email services that were turned off by Telecom last weekend, the chief executive of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00441.htm
15: Earthquake Experts Head to Peru for NZ lessons
NZ Society for Earthquake Engineering
A team of earthquake experts, sponsored by the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering (NZSEE), is scheduled to leave for Lima on Saturday to investigate the impact of last week’s devastating earthquake off the coast of Peru.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0708/S00063.htm
16: More Demonstrations Against Burmese Junta
Terry Evans
Today was such a tense day!!! More demonstrations were reportedly taken place in different areas in Rangoon following this morning peaceful march led by women activists.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00618.htm
17: Key urged to reveal what he told Clerk
New Zealand Government
Labour Minister Pete Hodgson urged National leader John Key to release all the information he gave to the Clerk of the House Dave McGee, not just the letter he got in reply.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00414.htm
18: Washing Clothes Can Reduce Formaldehyde Risk
Auckland Regional Public Health Service
Exposure to formaldehyde can be reduced by washing clothing before it is worn for the first time says the Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0708/S00099.htm
19: Top Scoop Stories - 24 August 2007 News Summary
The Scoop Editor
UN Appoints A Kiwi To New Mission In Iraq / Birds & Bees Sorted For Young Kiwis / Taser Trial Over - Police Say Lives Saved / Trade Down, Dollar High / Disparities Of 1990s Closing / Fonterra Payout Upgraded / New Unrest Flares In East Timor.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00299.htm
20: Cyber-shot introduces smile detection
Sony New Zealand Limited
Sony's new T200 and T70 Cyber-shot use unique smile shutter function while the H3 Cyber-shot comes with ultimate 10x optical zoom
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0708/S00064.htm
21: Website Set To Revolutionise The Way Kiwis Shop
Tubby
Kiwis look set to gain from new online shopping comparison engine Tubby – a powerful online shopping and research tool that rewards members with cold hard cash!
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00485.htm
22: Letter To Editor: Media Racism in New Zealand
Scoop Feedback
Media Racism in New Zealand OPINION: After an eye-opening lecture by Moana Jackson and Annette Sykes on 16.08.07 at Otago University, we are writing to express our views on the apparent media racism facing New Zealand. We all know about the Kahui ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00297.htm
23: Kucinich Campaign Awaiting ABC News Explanations
Kucinich 2008 Campaign
The Kucinich campaign is still awaiting an official response from ABC News about the unexplained - some have charged "inexplicable" - way in which the network has handled its post-debate online coverage of Ohio Congressman and Democratic Presidential ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00598.htm
24: ERO report on sexuality education seriously flawed
Family Life International
The new Education Review Office (ERO) report into sexuality education has failed to actually measure the real outcomes of sex education in New Zealand schools. The new report is circular in nature, because it simply measures the frequency and content ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0708/S00074.htm
25: View from the Frontiers of Molecular Biology
Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting
The keynote speaker at this year’s Queenstown Molecular Biology meeting (QMB) is 1997 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, Professor Sir John Walker from Cambridge UK. International experts will join more than 200 leading University and Crown Research ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0708/S00061.htm
26: Defence Rejects Unfounded Timor Allegations
Australian Defence Force
Defence rejects allegations reported by Rory Callinan in the online version of Time Australia magazine, relating to an incident in the village of Same (Timor Leste) on 4 March 2007.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00608.htm
27: Pacific Blue Offers Kiwis Expensive Air Travel
Air New Zealand
Air New Zealand says it will not be beaten on price and is surprised at how expensive Pacific Blue plans to make domestic air travel for its customers. Group General Manager Short Haul Airlines Norm Thompson says that based on information Pacific Blue released ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00458.htm
28: Global Cooperation Vital As New Diseases Emerge
United Nations
With new diseases emerging at an unprecedented rate in an increasingly interconnected world, often with the ability to cross borders rapidly, global public health security depends on international cooperation and surveillance more than at any previous time ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00599.htm
29: ERO selling lie of “safe sex”
Direct Democracy Party Of NZ
“It is time for the Education Review Office, Family Planning, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs to stop selling New Zealand families and children the lie that is “safe sex”, says Deputy Leader of the Direct Democracy Party ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0708/S00075.htm
30: Effective sexuality education valued by students
New Zealand Government
Students attending schools that provide effective sexuality education programmes are highly motivated to learn and they value the programmes, a new report has found.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00419.htm
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