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The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were...
Oil analysts are predicting a $US40 per barrel price in coming weeks which would represent of 400% price rise since
March 1999. Yet the US economy and financial markets are reacting as if it didn't exist. What's going on? John Howard
writes.
The coalition has greeted the Olympic 'truce' on the media's coverage of politics with huge relief. In Wellington the
political news is just grim for the Government.
Images from a fashion show presented by the Hong Kong student’s Association. Pictured in the red top holding a
microphone is association president Danielle Shum. Pictured painting is Stan Chan, from Ink Link. Pictures from Mark
Graham –IMAGE TIME .
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of: ANZAC Dollar – Teacher Registration – Dollar Woes and Oil Prices – Saving
Whales – Evening Post Business Poll – TVNZ Charter - Industry Training –Oil Prices and Consumption – Constitutional
Reform - ...
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... you don't have to be out of the country for long to make the news seem strange on your return.
A day will usually do it. After three days this week, the headlines on the plane on the way back seemed positively
bizarre.
More Kiwi's may soon be allowed to immigrate to Britain under proposed changes to immigration laws designed to address
chronic shortages of skilled labour. John Howard reports.
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. This time the furry fellow with a flair for photography has produced another - never seen
before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing it in the sun, before it was burned down. It looks like it was a
tranquil and magical ...
NEW ZEALAND's Olympic campaign went from bad to worse today when disaster struck the three day eventing equestrian team
with Atlanta Gold medalist Blyth Tait devastated to see his horse Ready Teddy pulled out of the show-jumping on
veterinary advice.
DESPITE the failure of Sarah Ulmer to deliver an expected bronze in women's cycling Monday was still a day when 'kiwi
girl-power' saw New Zealand proud.
The latest TVNZ Colmar-Brunton political poll released on One News last evening ignored a crucial point says Hon Peter
Dunne, leader United New Zealand.
Students camped out in cardboard boxes out side Parliament yesterday, in protest of the government voting not to
reinstate the Community Wage Student.
National's Bob Simcock says he is sickened by the actions of Social Services Minister Steve Maharey, who has banned the
Child, Youth and Family Service from taking part in a forum on child abuse.
Paraphrased answers will be posted in the Scoops wire shortly after 3pm.
"In a recent Wellington newspaper, the Correctives read of the sinful influence of avocados in our society. These
lascivious and fleshy fruits appear to drive women to acts of lust and passion!!!"
Another Iraq-US crisis is looming. Russia is moving 50,000 troops to the Turkish border. Iraq has cut oil production by
500,000 barrels per day. Intelligence agencies are forecasting a China/Taiwan blockade, and the US elections are just
four months ...
National 41% up 6 - Labour 36% down 3 - Green 7% up 1 - Alliance 6% static - ACT 4% down 3 - NZ First 3% static -
including full regional/age/sex/income group breakdown
Bringing together two completely unrelated cultural traditions to make a new work, without doing an enormous disservice
to both traditions, is a tough ask. Some things just weren’t meant to go together, like pickles and ice-cream. But every
so often, ...
The ACT leader Richard Prebble welcomed TVNZ's decision to live stream parliament's question time on the internet.
In the midst of global concern over climate change there is one group that is rubbing its hands together with glee - the
nuclear power industry. Unlike coal and gas-fired power stations, nuclear plants don’t emit carbon dioxide, leading the
nuclear industry ...
The wonderful thing about living in America is that life's little television mysteries are solved. Why do TV cops eat
doughnuts? Well, the nearest thing you'll find to a good old meat pie is something called a pot pie and the only place
you'll find ...