Today's Top Scoops - 11 April 2008
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LEAD STORY------------
Commerce: Ministers Decline Auckland Airport Proposal - Land Information Minister David Parker and Associate Finance Minister Clayton Cosgrove have jointly declined the application by the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board to buy a 40 percent shareholding in Auckland International Airport Limited. "Our role has been to apply the law as it is set out," the Ministers said.More >> [1]
ALSO:Reasons for Decision by Ministers [2] (PDF)CPPIB - Govt decision on Overseas Investment application [3] Auckland International Airport - Auckland Airport to focus on "moving forward" [4] NZ First - NZ First Welcomes Government Decision [5] National - Labour puts 'don't invest here' sign up [6] Greens - Greens applaud victory of commonsense [7] NZ Govt - Key puts up 'for sale' sign on strategic assets [8] Manukau City Council - Manukau City Council welcomes Government decision [9] Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa - Govt Congratulated for Preventing Airport Takeover [10]
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NZ POLITICS------------
MPs In Action: Pansy Wong Goes On The Beat - Last Friday night I got to experience what our police experience every single day. From 4pm until well after
midnight, I went on the beat with the police in Howick. More >> [1]
Syed Akbar Kamal: Tamil Tigers And Ethnic Cleansing - Sri Lanka's top diplomat in the Pacific region Mr. Kusum Balapatabendi paid a visit to New Zealand recently on the
occasion of Sri Lanka's 60 years of independence. More >> [1]
Scoop Satire: Trade Briefs - The Reserve Bank has attempted to prevent overreact to a projected downturn, urging the nation's bears not to "go
into hibernation". It is understood that the announcement was part of Governor Bollard's efforts to stop people talking
down the doomed economy. More >> [1]
Former PM Watch: Mike Knows Best - "It's moving from farce to tragedy. I can't think of another country in the world which would have a Foreign Minister
who opposes what his Prime Minister says is a big deal, the NZ/China Free Trade Agreement. Another Minister says he
supports the deal but will boycott a reception... More >> [1]
Unions: Unite, NDU, SFWU Merge To Form 50,000-Strong Union - NZ's most active unions have announced they are intending to merge into a 50,000 strong union. AUT's Jamie
Melbourne-Hayward speaks explores what the merger means for workers, businesses, and the Government. More >> [1]
ALSO:Carly Tawhio - Matt McCarten on Plans For New Union [2]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Agriculture: Dairy's Golden Cow Keeps On Giving - Fonterra has announced a 40 cent increase in its payout forecast for the 2007/08 season. The increase, which is
mainly in the milk price component of payout, brings the forecast to $7.30 per kilogram of milksolids. More >> [1]
Statistics: Hotels Lead Increase In February Guest Nights - Total guest nights in short-term commercial accommodation in February 2008 were 3 percent higher than in February
2007, Statistics New Zealand said today. More >> [1]
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WORLD------------
Parody: Sarkozy Marries Merkel, But Screws The Climate! - A ''wedding cortege'' of the most-polluting German cars travelled along the Champs Elysée in Paris today, stopping in
various showrooms to distribute invitations to the marriage of French President Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel. More >> [1]
United Kingdom: G8 Must Press For Action On Food Crisis - UK's Gordon Brown has written to the Japanese Prime Minister asking him as chair of the G8 group of industrialised
nations to take action to deal with rising food prices, and calling for a fully coordinated response from the
international community. More >> [1]
In Context: 'A Credible Budget' - Dr Sikua, Solomon Islands PM - The Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua said the 2008 Budget is a credible budget, when moving the Sine Die motion in
Parliament this week to end the current sitting of Parliament. He said it was credible because it was done in the
context of Solomon Islands. More >> [1]
Sporting Chance: Newspaper Group Welcomes IOC Comments On Human Rights - The World Association of Newspapers and World Editors Forum today (Thursday) welcomed Olympic President Jacques
Rogge's call for China, the world's largest jailer of journalists, to respect its Olympic promise to improve human
rights. More >> [1]
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COMMENT------------
Rosalea Barker: Let's Play Spot the Torch! - Sensible people stayed at home and watched the Olympic Torch Relay on the telly this afternoon, but I decided it was
too nice a spring day to stay inside so I ventured over to the Embarcadero section of the relay route in San Francisco. More >> [1]
ALSO:Matt Renner - Olympic Torch Protests Overwhelm San Francisco [2]
Syed A Kamal: Tamil Tigers And Ethnic Cleansing - Sri Lanka's top diplomat in the Pacific region Mr. Kusum Balapatabendi paid a visit to New Zealand recently on the
occasion of Sri Lanka's 60 years of independence. Incidentally it was his first trip to Auckland at the invitation of
New Zealand Sri ... More >> [1]
Siddhi B. Ranjitkar: After the CA Poll in Nepal - The historic election for a Constituent Assembly (CA) has been successfully completed. Now, the question is who are
going to influence the making of a new constitution of Nepal. In absence of scientific and even crude opinion polls
before and after ... More >> [1]
DRC: How Rich Whites Caused Five Million Blacks to Die - How many Congolese must die to illuminate one hand-held computer game? Nobody knows, but five million have already
been slaughtered in the greatest mineral extraction grab in the history of the planet... More >> [1]
Suzan Mazur: Stuart Newman, The New Master Of Evolution? - On his recent PBS television show One On One, John McLaughlin quizzed two religion authors about whether the idea of
the Virgin birth in the oral accounts of the Bible had a reference in biology, with someone mentioning... More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Comedy: Improvised Crime Fought By Angels - They found love in 'Love Possibly', and now NZ's only all-female improv ensemble are back, taking on an adrenaline
fuelled kick-ass adventure: Improv Angels: they fight improvised crime. More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, 11 April 2008
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