Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 9 August 2007

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Naked Vets put out new calendar

Massey University

Getting your kit off is becoming an annual event for Massey third-year veterinary science students.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0708/S00101.htm

Gordon Campbell

With the unveiling of the new Immigration Bill yesterday, we finally got to see what the Clark government has learned from the Ahmed Zaoui affair : absolutely nothing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00119.htm

Telecom New Zealand

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Telecom opens its exchange doors for the first time with an early trial of local loop unbundling and co-location with service providers, ihug and Orcon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00185.htm

Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Scoop Breaking News: Ali Reza Panah, the Iranian asylum seeker who has been held in prison awaiting his signature on documents that would see him deported back to Iran, has been granted bail.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00126.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. Hon BILL ENGLISH to the Minister of State Services: Does she have confidence in Dr Mark Prebble’s investigation into the Public Service recruitment and employment of Madeleine Setchell; if not, why not?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00154.htm

P and O Cruises

P&O Cruises has this morning cancelled Pacific Star’s scheduled eight night cruise from Auckland to Brisbane to enable further repairs to the ship. P&O Cruises Chief Executive Officer Ann Sherry apologised to passengers for the cancellation of their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00170.htm

Ernest Partridge

Officials at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation have contributed to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and Murdoch himself has held fund-raisers in her behalf. Lawyers at Kenneth Starr’s law firm, Kirkland and Ellis, have donated more to Clinton than they have ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00125.htm

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in New Zealand warns the proposed public records legislation, BDM amendment, could deliver unplanned negative consequences.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00111.htm

Department Of Labour

The Queenstown cafe in which industrial cleaner was accidentally served up as mulled wine has been issued an improvement notice related to its workplace health and safety systems, the Department of Labour confirmed today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00177.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. SUE KEDGLEY (Green) to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in her Minister of Consumer Affairs, given Sunday’s press statement from that Minister rejecting the Green Party’s call for mandatory country-of-origin labelling of single component ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00148.htm

Telecom New Zealand

Telecom opens its exchange doors for the first time with an early trial of local loop unbundling and co-location with service providers, ihug and Orcon.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00169.htm

US Information Service

Freedom of the press in China, where 29 Chinese journalists are in prison, is a top concern of independent press advocacy and human rights groups that have issued new reports about the matter.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00295.htm

TelstraClear

TelstraClear applauds the enthusiasm of ihug and Orcon as they prepare to access Telecom’s exchanges for the first time, but is raising one point of concern... in the rush to do what TelstraClear has already done, there’s a chance they may ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00179.htm

Global Peace And Justice Auckland

The proposed changes to New Zealand’s immigration rules and procedures are designed to dovetail in with American foreign policy objectives rather than meet the needs of New Zealand or the rights of prospective visitors, refugees or migrants.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0708/S00125.htm

New Zealand Government

Early take-up rates for the landmark, work-based saving scheme, KiwiSaver, are very encouraging, Finance Minister Michael Cullen and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00153.htm

Akanimo Sampson

Climate change is likely to undermine food production in the developing world, while industrialized countries could gain in production potential, Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf said in a wired statement to our ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00123.htm

J P Morgan

According to today's early release of the REINZ July property price report, the national median house price dropped 0.7% to NZ$345,000. July's house price decline was the second consecutive monthly fall - down from NZ$347,500 in June and the record NZ$350,000 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00200.htm

Kevin List

The biggest rewrite of immigration law aims to strengthen aims to strengthen border security and tighten the law against those who pose a threat to New Zealand's 'well being' according to the press release that announced the Bill's tabling in parliament.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00112.htm

Scoop News

Spies And Revolutionaries - CHAPTER SEVEN: Trinity’s traitor: In October 1932 a gangly 20-year-old wearing black horn-rimmed glasses enrolled at Trinity College at the University of Cambridge at the start of Michaelmas term.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00118.htm

Government of Singapore

"We celebrate National Day in a happy mood. It has been another good year for Singapore. We have had four good years of growth. Our athletes are winning medals. Our chefs are winning culinary contests. Our entrepreneurs are launching new businesses."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00308.htm

US State Department

The Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe has implemented a series of misguided and politically motivated economic policies that that have chased away investors and driven the once-thriving Zimbabwean economy into the ground.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00304.htm

Business New Zealand

The new Immigration Bill has the potential to be a strategic piece of legislation and the business community will scrutinise it carefully, says Business NZ.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0708/S00171.htm

Green Party

Scientists' conclusion that the Yangtze River dolphin or Baiji is functionally extinct is a cautionary reminder to New Zealanders that several of our rare marine mammals face the same fate.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00143.htm

International Transport Workers' Federation

Trade unionists will protest on 9 August, at Iranian embassies in key cities across the world, as part of a day of action to free jailed union leader Mansour Osanloo, being held without charge in Tehran's notorious Evin prison.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00299.htm

UK Government

Over half a million sets of fingerprints - equivalent to a set checked every 30 seconds 24 hours a day - have been taken from visa applicants since the roll-out programme began last year, it was announced today as UKvisas published its annual report.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00274.htm

New Zealand Government

Minister Pete Hodgson today announced he would call in Transpower’s proposal to build an electricity transmission line that would run from Waikato to Auckland.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00160.htm

New Zealand Government

With labour force participation and employment both at all time highs and the unemployment rate at an equal low of 3.6 percent, this quarter's Household Labour Force Survey results are the best ever recorded, Acting Social Development and Employment Minister ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0708/S00156.htm

Capital C Concerts

One Concert! One City! One Date! Sound familiar? On the exact anniversary of the spectacular concert in Wellington last year, promoters Capital C: Concerts have again plucked a one-off New Zealand performance by the one and only Sir Elton John. This ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0708/S00091.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

In this, the fourteenth year of NAFTA, it is of the utmost importance--in terms of its continued application in the future--to look back and examine the economic impact of free trade on the U.S. and Mexico over the last decade and a half.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00290.htm

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