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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For May 20 2010

Friday, 21 May 2010, 9:57 am
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1: IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2010

IMD World Competitiveness Center
For the first time in decades, Singapore (1) and Hong Kong (2) have topped the US (3) in IMD’s World Competitiveness Yearbook rankings. They are so close, however, that it would be better to define them as the leading “trio”. The US has weathered ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00359.htm

2: Aid For Landslide Victims in Eastern DR Congo

United Nations
United Nations peacekeepers today rushed in all-terrain vehicles and other relief after an overflowing river caused a landslide on the slopes of a major volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), burying at least 46 people and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00372.htm

3: Scoop Feedback: Pictures of the Turmoil in Bangkok

Scoop Feedback
Below is a series of photographs taken from a reader's apartment overlooking central Bangkok during the Red Shirts' final smoky stand yesterday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00162.htm

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4: Sludge Report #192: The Naked Budget

C.D. Sludge
Finance Minister Bill English's second budget is an exercise in minimalism in everything but tax. And in that respect the changes announced today have been so well flagged that there is little news today besides the sweeping income tax cuts which will take ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00161.htm

5: Govt closes loophole and aligns LAQC tax rates

Businesswire
May 20 (BusinessWire) – The government is closing the loophole on loss attributing qualifying companies (LAQCs), a favoured property investment vehicle, by aligning the tax rates between the structures’ deductions and profits.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1005/S00621.htm

6: Budget 2010 – Building the Recovery

New Zealand Government
Focuses on growth, helps Kiwi families get ahead; Biggest tax reform in 25 years; Sound financial management
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00286.htm

7: Scoop Satire: Sweeping Taxonomy Changes For Budget

Lyndon Hood
What may have begun as a typographic error has been embraced by the Government, with the budget tipped to see a sweeping "rebalancing" of the taxonomy system.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00152.htm

8: 2010 Budget Fact Sheets

New Zealand Government
Scoop readers can view and download the following factsheets direct from the 2010 Budget media kit.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00320.htm

9: ECE budget brutal blow to children and families

NZ Childcare Association
The removal of the top two early childhood education funding bands for services with 80 -100% qualified teachers in today’s budget is a brutal blow to children and families says NZ Childcare Association Chief Executive Nancy Bell.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1005/S00086.htm

10: United Nations Asian Pacific Commission

United Nations
A critical meeting of the United Nations regional arm for Asia and the Pacific ended today with Ministers and diplomats from over 60 countries adopting the Incheon Declaration identifying the critical need for low carbon and clean technology growth strategies ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00381.htm

11: Trans Tasman: Budget Special 2010

Trans Tasman
"We owe it to hard-working Kiwi families to provide them with the financial security, opportunities and higher take-home incomes which allow them to get ahead here in this country, instead of chasing better opportunities overseas. The budget ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00163.htm

12: Essentially a cut for tertiary education

Green Party
Steven Joyce has a deficit of vision for the tertiary education sector, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00339.htm

13: Questions and Answers - 19 May 2010

Office of the Clerk
Budget 2010—Focus; Budget 2010—Tax Package; Emissions Trading Scheme—Reports; Budget 2010—Tax Loopholes Used by High-income Earners;Investors, Small—Promotion of Confidence in Financial Markets
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00282.htm

14: Key’s triple deficit Budget

Green Party
John Key’s Government has chosen a Budget of fiscal, social and environmental deficits when smarter options were available, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00323.htm

15: Pakistan: Girl raped for 21 days by policemen

Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information from The News International about a revolting story of a 13 year-old girl, who was continuously gang-raped, mentally, and physically tortured by police officials during 21 days of illegal detention. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00380.htm

16: Let Them Eat Cake!

Progressive Party
The gap between rich and poor is set to widen after today’s budget, says Jim Anderton MP for Wigram.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00329.htm

17: Just the beginning – here for the long term

The Maori Party
The $286 million specifically secured by the Maori Party in today’s Budget will set the scene for change and a foundation to transform the lives of many Maori whänau.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00318.htm

18: Extra ECE spending, targeting families in need

New Zealand Government
The Government will spend an extra $107 million on early childhood education in 2010/11 and ensure these services are available to families in most need, Education Minister Anne Tolley says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00292.htm

19: Higher rents forecast as Budget alters tax rebate

Bayley's Real Estate
Watch out for rising rents in the coming 12 months. That’s the warning from both finance Minister Bill English and a leading property investment expert following the Government’s Budget announcement released today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1005/S00648.htm

20: Tax swindle Budget a backwards step

New Zealand Labour Party
Finance Minister Bill English’s 2010 Budget is a step backwards. It proves National is neither fair nor has a real plan to fix the economy, Labour Finance Spokesperson David Cunliffe said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00340.htm

21: Dr Russel Norman: Budget Speech

Green Party
It runs a fiscal deficit, it runs an environmental deficit, it runs a social deficit and perhaps most sadly, it betrays a deficit of vision for New Zealand.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00325.htm

22: South Korea: Gwangju, a model of reconciliation

Asian Human Rights Commission
On May 18th, 2010 South Korea celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Gwangju uprising against the military dictatorship of the then President, Mr. Chun Do-Whan. The manner in which the people of Gwangju city, consisting of around 730,000 people at that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00379.htm

23: Tariana Turia - Human Rights Commission

New Zealand Government
I’d have to be honest, and say that as a general rule, the concept of Budgets isn’t one that usually fills me with excitement.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00338.htm

24: Symantec to Acquire VeriSign’s Security Business

Symantec
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire VeriSign’s (Nasdaq: VRSN) identity and authentication business, which includes the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Certificate Services, the Public Key Infrastructure ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1005/S00602.htm

25: Tax Rates: Must Try Harder

ACT New Zealand
ACT New Zealand Finance Spokesman Sir Roger Douglas today questioned why the Government had not moved to align the top personal tax rate, the corporate tax rate, and the trustee tax rate.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00328.htm

26: $9 million: Support for Maori bus

The Maori Party
MEDIA STATEMENT Hon Dr Pita Sharples Co-Leader of the M a ori Party Embargoed until 3pm on 20 May 2010
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1005/S00322.htm

27: Budget 2010 - Full Coverage - May 20th 2010

Scoop Budget News Alerts
Personal and company tax cuts announced in the Budget today will cost more than the GST increase and clampdowns on tax dodges until 2013/14, and will only ever be fiscally neutral as long as the economy grows as strongly as the Treasury forecasts.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00166.htm

28: Budget Launches Attack on Quality Teaching

NZEI
Today's 2010 Budget is a nice-looking parcel with some nasty surprises wrapped inside when it comes to education, according to the country’s largest education sector union.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1005/S00084.htm

29: Scoop Top Stories For May 19, 2010 News Summary

The Scoop Editor
LEAD STORY Signup To Scoop Budget 2010 Alerts Budget 2010: How will the GST rise affect retailers? NZ POLITICS Conservation: Forest & Bird Calls For Action Over Dolphins Welfare: Working Group Forum To 'Debate The Issues' Gordon Campbell: On John Key's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1005/S00158.htm

30: TEU Tertiary Update, Vol 13 No 18

Association of University Staff
Ominous signs for 2010 budget Prime Minister John Key is continuing to warn the New Zealanders not to expect any new investment in their tertiary education system from this afternoon's budget. He told the Sunday Star Times that the government already ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1005/S00080.htm

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