Today's Top Scoops - 16 July 2008
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Politics: Gordon Campbell On Interweb VS Immigration Bill - Great to see that the various players in the blogosphere - from the usual great stuff by No Right Turn, to the new website started by T-Rex to oppose the Bill and the Standard, to name a few– are coming together to campaign against Labour's Immigration Bill. I'll be posting a full analysis of the Bill once it is reported back in a few days time, from select committee. A lot of people have picked up that the Bill enshrines in law some of the worst features of the process used against Ahmed Zaoui. More >> [1]
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NZ POLITICS------------
ANZ Downsizing: Hey Mr Bagrie How About A Report On Firing Staff? - Finance workers union Finsec is saying ANZ National bank is being a bad corporate citizen that is harming our economy
following announcements yesterday of proposals to cut nearly 250 jobs in its major processing centres. More >> [1]
Foreign Affairs: Condoleezza to Meet PM And Peters - United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to visit New Zealand in late July, Foreign Minister Winston
Peters announced today. Secretary Rice will arrive late on Friday, 25 July, and will meet with Mr Peters and Prime
Minister Helen Clark in Auckland the following day. More >> [1]
Billion Dollar Bungle: Roading Founded on Buck A Litre Gas - A Green Party analysis of Land Transport New Zealand economic evaluations shows that the Government systematically
discriminates against public transport projects, including pricing petrol at $1 dollar a litre. More >> [1]
EARLIER:Green Party - $10 a litre petrol prices in a decade [2] Green Party -Transmission Gully costs will never end [3]
Police: Hunt On For Snatched Child - 'Our Number One priority is to get this little girl back to her parents,' Detective Inspector Steve Wood, of
Waitemata District CIB said this morning. 'We do have concerns for the safety of this young girl,' he said. More >> [1]
ALSO: TV3 Video - Police continue hunt for abducted girl [2] TV3 Video - Family sends plea to abductor to return little girl [3] TV3 Video - Police believe abduction was premeditated [4] TV3 Video - Full news conference about 5-year-old's abduction [5]
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BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH------------
Lime Quarry Oscars: Plain Old Lime Quarry Becomes Multi Award Winner - New Zealand's largest lime producing quarry has won three prestigious awards at the recent quarry industry
conference. McDonald's Lime Oparure Quarry, majority owned and operated by Holcim. More >> [1]
Migrant Workers: Tips For Avoiding Faulty Workplace Relationships - Employers of skilled migrants in New Zealand have identified a top ten check list for successful workplace relations.
The check list includes zero tolerance of racial discrimination. More >> [1]
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WORLD------------
United Nations: Trade & Globalization Boost Prosperity & Stability - Trade and globalization have had the double effect of enhancing prosperity for hundreds of millions of people and
stepping up stability among nations. Countries have gained from specialization and economies of scale to boost
efficiency thanks to trade. More >> [1]
Greenpeace: Activists Freed; Time For Whaling Corruption Probe - The two Greenpeace Japan activists, arrested and charged for intercepting a box of whale meat illegally smuggled off
the Japanese whaling fleet, have been released on bail, after 26 days in custody. A panel of three judges in granted the
release. More >> [1]
President Bush: The U.S. Economy Is Sound Despite Setbacks - "The bottom line is this: We're going through a tough time, but our economy has continued growing, consumers are
spending, businesses are investing, exports continue increasing, and American productivity remains strong." - President
George W. Bush. More >> [1]
U.S. State Dept: The Repression And Arrest Of Two Student Activists In Iran - "The United States is concerned by reports that Iranian authorities have stepped up their repression of student
activists in the wake of the ninth anniversary of the July 9, 1999 student uprising." -- U.S. State Department. More >> [1]
Alternative Energy: Solar Power Viable Option For East Timor, Says UN - The solar project, just one of many initiatives carried out by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affair in the
tiny South East Asian nation, aimed to help rural communities harness the potential of this alternative energy source. More >> [1]
Refugees International: Relocation Of Palestinian Refugees To Sudan Not A Lasting Solution - Refugees International expressed deep concern over the decision taken by the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and Sudan to relocate this population to pre-fabricated housing in a Khartoum
neighborhood, with no path to citizenship. More >> [1]
Burma: Survival In The Shadow Of Cyclone Nargis - Rebuilding simple homes is one thing. Lives and livelihoods take time and, behind a semblance of returning normality,
another story emerged. Rather than making progress some villagers were falling back, going into debt in attempts to
recover by themselves. More >> [1]
WYD08: Papa Wows The Masses With TXT Message; Cardinal Pell Celebrates Opening Mass - After Pope Benedict XVI sent text message to pilgrims, the atmosphere was electric. He sent: "Young friend, God & his people expect much from u, because u have within u the Father's supreme gift: the Spirit of Jesus - BXVI" More >> [1]
Crude In New York: Oil Prices Take Biggest One-Day Drop In 17 Years - Oil prices have plummeted amid concerns a slowing U.S. economy will decrease demand. The price of crude oil in New
York at one point fell more than $9 a barrel in trading in New York Tuesday, the biggest one-day drop for crude oil in
17 years. More >> [1]
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COMMENT------------
Letter from Elsewhere: The appalling Veitch story - I can find only three small rays of hope in the appalling story of Tony Veitch's serious assault on his former
partner, and its aftermath. None of them have anything to do with his behaviour after the story broke, let alone with
how the media (including ... More >> [1]
Scoop Review of Books: The View Through the Islamic Mesh - A Thousand Splendid Suns By Khaled Hosseini Bloomsbury Paperbacks, $27.99. Reviewed by ALISON McCULLOCH for the Scoop
Review of Books When she is first made to wear a burqa, Mariam, one of the two main characters in Khaled Hosseini's A
Thousand ... More >> [1]
Ron Callari: UAE blocks social networking websites - The network StumbleUpon has become the latest casualty of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) web blocking lottery. It is
a sad commentary when social networking and content sharing sites get auto-blocked by Etisalat , one of the UAE's
largest More >> [1]
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LIFESTYLE------------
Thai Festival In Ak: Mangoes, Mangosteen and Langon Await The Curious - With only ten days to go, things are hotting up at the Thai Fruit and Flower Festival offices. We are getting ready
to receive a ton each of mangoes, mangosteen and longan. More >> [1]
Extreme Sports: Scientist Packs Gas Masks For Chinese Olympics - Body cooling gel, gas masks, ice baths, compression stockings and a tonne of nutritional snacks will all be in the
luggage of sport scientist Dr Andrew Foskett as he accompanies the New Zealand men's football squad, the Oly-Whites, to
the 2008 Olympic Games in China. More >> [1]
Kiwi Pride: Graffiti Artists Go Spray Can Crazy In Germany - Congratulations are in order once again for New Zealand graffiti crew TMD (The Most Dedicated), who triumphed at the
World's Largest Graffiti competition at Splash Festival in Germany. More >> [1]
And those were the Top Scoops on this day, 16 July 2008
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