The Top 30 rating items on Scoop for December 30, 2007, including: 1: Whales: In Response To Japan Whaling Association,
2: John Chuckman: Bhutto, Bush & Musharraf, 3: New Years Eve Destinations. 4: Pakistan: On Borrowed Time. 5: Prelude To Election...
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Sue Arnold
Saving whales is not about abusing the cultural rights of Japanese. Saving whales is about our collective humanity
survival in the face of multiple serious threats to the ocean environment. We are all connected environmentally, we need
to work with ...
John Chuckman
With the assassination of Ms. Bhutto, we are given to understand that anti-democratic religious zealots killed
Pakistan's last hope for democracy. But her assassination was a far more complex event than such simplistic claims.
Wotif.com
Wotif.com has announced that Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch are the most popular destinations in NZ for New
Year's Eve. The Total bookings for New Zealand's cities rival domestic leisure destination bookings for the same period.
Syed Akbar Kamal
Amidst scenes of chaos, violence and mayhem emanating from Pakistan after the assassination of Pakistan's People Party
chief Benazir Bhutto, the 5000-odd Pakistani community living here in New Zealand is stunned and shocked.
Rosalea Barker
Aside from the websites devoted to reporting recent developments on the subject of the validity of election results,
and news reports such as this one on AlterNet, dated 27 December, about the status of the new Holt bill, saying that
introduction ...
New Zealand Lotteries
This New Year's Eve three lucky Lotto players from Auckland and Lawrence are going to have thousands of reasons to
celebrate, after winning $491,210 each in First Division on tonight's draw, says NZ Lotteries' Chief Executive, Todd
McLeay.
Syed Atiq ul Hassan
Benazir Bhutto openly slammed Islamic fundamentalism and radicalism. She vowed to allow US forces to launch operations
against Al Quaeda groups inside Pakistani border in northern Pakistan for which Musharraf always denied.
Scoop Daily Ratings
The Top 30 rating items on Scoop for December 29, 2007, including: 1: US President Up For Sale, 2: An Antiquities
Conspiracy?, 3: Pakistan: On Borrowed Time, 4: Ethiopia/Eritrea: Restraint Urged, 5: Qantas Strikes Likely To Effect
Holiday Plans.
New Zealand National Party
"Education Minister Chris Carter should tell parents why the Government is cutting school resources to the iconic
Itinerant Teachers of Music Scheme next year by withdrawing resources for teacher travel time."
United Nations
The United Nations refugee agency has enlisted a new ally - red-nosed clowns - to help put Iraqi children traumatized by
the violence of their homeland at ease while they register for school in neighbouring Syria.
New Zealand Police
There are road closures in place due to a Fire in a buidling on the corner of Courtenay Place and Taranaki St,
Wellington City. This is an initial incident report. As more information is gathered by Police details may change.
New Zealand Police
The Counties-Manukau CIB has commenced an investigation into the origin of a head injury which has resulted in the
admission of a 2mth old baby girl to Starship Hospital. The baby girl is in a critical condition.
ITUC
"Those who resort to terrorist acts must not be allowed to succeed in their aim of thwarting democracy and the rule of
law and we trust that the people responsible for this atrocity and other such acts will be found and brought to
justice."
United Nations
The UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), set to become the world body's largest peacekeeping operation with some 26,000
personnel at full strength, is poised to officially take over on Monday from the AU force currently on the ground.
Regatta News
The Commodore of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Matt Allen this afternoon formally announced the US STP65
Rosebud, owned by Roger Sturgeon (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida), as the provisional overall IRC winner of the Sydney Hobart
Yacht Race.
New Zealand Lotteries
"I was cooking dinner yesterday, when my husband yelled out that we had the winning Big Wednesday ticket. I just said
'Yeah right' and carried on in the kitchen," the winning woman said.
US State Department
"I wanted to come to express our deep sympathies with the Bhutto family, with supporters of Benazir Bhutto and, of
course, with the Pakistani people. This is a day of great tragedy, great mourning. She was a champion for democracy." --
Secretary Rice.
New Zealand Government
A pilot anti-truancy project, which automatically notifies parents by text message if their children are not at school,
is being evaluated by the government to see if it will be suitable for all schools.
United Nations
To ensure that relief assistance is provided should security conditions continue to deteriorate, the UN and its partners
have revised their contingency plans for the areas of Goz Beida and Koukou.
Scoop Daily Ratings
The Top 30 rating items on Scoop for December 28, 2007, including: 1: Ethiopia, Eritrea: Restraint Urged, 2: Former FDA
Official Marketing Lilly Drug, 3: Pakistan's Former PM Benazir Bhutto Assassinated, 4: Dennis Kucinich: On The Death Of
Benazir Bhutto.
United Nations
Saad Houry, a dual Lebanese-Canadian citizen, has been the Director of UNICEF's Division of Policy and Planning since
January 2003, and he is also a member of the agency's Global Management Team, Programme Management Group and Audit
Committee
US State Department
Pakistan: Embassy Islamabad in Touch / Condolences for Loss of Former PM Bhutto / U.S. Encourages Calm / Fight Extremism
/ Discussions with Sharif & His Political Party / Circumstances Surrounding Bhutto Assassination / US Does Not Pick Leaders.
Wellington City Council
This year's Rhythm and Beats New Year's Eve celebration features Olmecha Supreme, a large ensemble led by musician
extraordinaire Captain Imon Starr (Rhombus, Nuvonesia and the Roots Foundation). They promise to take the crowd on a
voyage through sound.
Auckland City Council
The Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) has advised Auckland City Council that routine tests of several air
conditioning cooling towers in buildings in the CBD have identified a high legionella count in one of these buildings.
United Nations
While the many initiatives held throughout 2007 have helped to strengthen efforts to feed the hungry, WFP stresses that
more needs to be done given that 25,000 people still die each day from hunger-related causes.
Suzan Mazur
Hugh Eakin’s recent "Treasure Hunt" story in The New Yorker profiling Marion True, the former Getty curator on trial in
Rome for conspiracy to traffic in ancient art, devotes a column to True’s 1991 paper on the destruction of ancient
cultural sites, ...
VOA News
Throngs of people lined the streets as the coffin holding Ms. Bhutto's body was taken to her final resting place and
lowered into a grave next to her father at the family mausoleum in southern Sindh province.
United Nations
The overall malnutrition rate among children under five in Darfur reached 16.1 per cent this year, compared to 12.9 per
cent last year, surpassing for the first time since 2004 the emergency threshold of 15 per cent.
Scoop Daily Ratings
The Top 30 rating items on Scoop for December 27, 2007, including: 1: Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2007, 2: Drought
and desertification in Iran, 3: New Zealand Air Games Takes Off Over Wanaka, 4: Explosion In Highest Paid Education
Ministry Staff.
iTouch
At the Auckland Town Hall on Friday 23 July leading mobile computing experts iTouch Business Mobility was celebrated at
the annual NZTE Export Awards as finalist of the Information and Communications Technology category. iTouch attributes
this achievement ...
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