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Scoop Ratings - The Week's Top 20
The week's Top 20 rating items on Scoop were…
1: Asian
Banks In Serious Trouble
Banks in Asia are still in serious trouble and could spark further financial turmoil in the region, according to an international banking authority. John Howard reports.
(Note: This week's ratings were distorted by a rogue robot which read a couple of stories rather obsessively on Wednesday - we have deleted the No 2. rating story from this list as a result. The No. 1 rating story is probably also higher ranking that it would have ordinarily been.)
3: Only
Indonesia Can Save East Timor
Now
As violence threatens to take still more lives in East Timor there are probably only three people capable of making any difference in East Timor: The President of Indonesia B.J. Habibe, leader of the largest opposition party Megawati Sukarnoputri, and ABRI ...
4:
Inside
APEC Exclusive - Canada's "Highest
Threat"
His tale reads like a scene out of the Frederick Forsyth book "The ODESSA File". But while what you read here is clock and dagger, it is not fiction. Published on Scoop for the first time in New Zealand is Jaggi Singh's account of what Canada's ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Scottish
Ref A Serious Threat To Cup
Hopes
Taking nothing away from the Wallabies victory - they played very well and the All Blacks poorly - but there are lessons for World Cup contenders, fans and organisers in the refereeing of tonight's Bledisloe Cup match in Sydney.
6:
Email
Espionage At Wellington City
Council?
Allegations of blackmail and espionage at Wellington City Council? Sounds ridiculous, perhaps, but there appears to be some substance behind the latest contretemps between the spurned independent councillors and the Labour-Wellington Alive coalition.
7:
Pete
Hodgson's Moment Of Glory? - Question
3
How Pete Hodgson was granted leave to deliver a 5 minute speech on what Labour will do to the ECA during question time - and what he said.
8:
Rough
Passage Expected For Producer Board Bills
The government is planning to push through three significant bills reforming the Kiwifruit, Apple and Pear and Dairy boards over the next four sitting days, however the passage of the legislation is not expected to plain sailing.
9:
Auck
Councillor's Un-Censored APEC Column
Revealed
Here, courtesy of Auckland's 95Bfm is Auckland councillor, Maire Leadbeater's "Lost Column". AUCKLAND CITY COUNCILLOR Maire Leadbeater refused to edit her column for this week's edition of the council's PR rag to the public, "City Scene". Instead, ...
10:
Lotto
CEO David Bale - Resignation Press
Release
In the last twelve years I have enjoyed the confidence and support of four prime ministers and seven ministers of Internal Affairs. It is obvious from her public statements that this is not the case with Mrs Shipley. I always thought that helping ...
11:
The
Week Ahead: Playing The
Numbers
With five sitting days till the house rises the Beehive's best and brightest are engaged in a game they became well accustomed to last year as the government sat on a knife edge- counting the numbers.
12:
The
CIA, Labour and the 'Credit Card'
Campaign
Scoop's Jonathan Hill looks at how Labour Party President Bob Harvey's comments on the CIA this week could be the much needed start of a fresh new approach to Labour's election campaign.
13:
Column:
International Studies Of Transaction
Tax
Late this week treasurer, Bill English and Act's Rodney Hide came out swinging against the Alliance proposal for a financial transaction tax to replace GST, calling it "a loopy and failed idea." But the international community is presently ...
14:
A
Scoop Exclusive - Inside APEC
Series
As the third reading of the SIS Amendment Bill No. 2 is put before the New Zealand Parliament, a Canadian Anti-APEC campaigner warns of spy infiltration of New Zealand groups. Those particularly targeted are organisations and individuals openly critical ...
15:
Police
Issue Letter To APEC Protest
Leaders
In this latest instalment of the Scoop Inside APEC Series we reveal the letter issued by the New Zealand Police to suspected leaders of Anti-APEC groups and organisations.
16:
The
Lasting Lessons Of WACO
If you were near a television set on April 19, 1993, you will never forget the sight of the Mt. Carmel religious community in Waco, Texas, going up in flames. What precisely had these people done to justify the Fed's surrounding them with tanks? With reluctance, ...
17:
Rainbow
Labour says Capill is out of
touch
Michael Wilson and Judie Alison, Co-Chairs of Rainbow Labour, the Labour Party's gay, lesbian and transgender branches, said today that Graeme Capill's reaction to the Discussion paper on same sex relationships was extreme, and the sign of a desperate ...
18:
50,000
Families Pay No Tax
Next year, around 50,000 low-to-middle income working families will pay no tax, Treasurer Bill English said today.
19:
Employers
Federation Clarifies Misleading
Comments
Following a series of misleading statements quoted in both written and electronic media, the Employers' Federation has today forwarded the attached two communications to the Labour Party.
20:
Labour
Whipping Up Anti-US Feeling Before
APEC
ACT Leader Richard Prebble, one of the few MPs in Parliament to have personally known Norman Kirk, has accused Labour President Bob Harvey of whipping up anti-American feelings on the eve of APEC, with his absurd claim that the CIA murdered Norman Kirk.
21:
China/Russia
Pledge To Thwart US Global
Domination
In a move which does not bode well for the upcoming APEC talks in Auckland, China, Russia and three Central Asian states have pledged in a declaration to promote a "multi-polar world" and thwart global domination by the United States. ...
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Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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