Top Scoop Stories - 29 February 2008 News Summary

Friday, 29 February 2008, 2:00 pm
Article: The Scoop Editor

Today's Top Scoops - 29 February 2008

LEAD STORY:

Scoop News Flash: Pumpkin's Father Arrested In Atlanta

NZ POLITICS:

Scoop Images: Body Movies
Scoop News: Peters Fights With Media - 28 February 2008
Telecom: Minister declines Telecom's Separation Plan
Kyoto: Foresters And Farmers Drop PR Bomb On Carbon Policy

BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH:

Finance: New Disclosure Rules For Investment Advisers In Force Tomorrow

WORLD:

World Travel: Cuba Announces New Projects To Attract Visitors
United Nations: Housing Rights Of Hurricane Katrina Victims
Bhutan: U.S. Resettlement Offer For Bhutanese Refugees
United Nations: Secretary-general Ban Welcomes Accord 'Breakthrough' In Kenya

COMMENT:

Bruce Dixon: No Arms! No Transfers! No Military Aid! It's Time To Demilitarize US Policy In Africa
Martha Rosenberg: Who Drank The Milk From Hallmark/Westland Cows?
Greg Palast: Exxon Suxx. McCain Duxx
Scoop Lea Barker: Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Train Wreck Ahoy!www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00337.htm

LIFESTYLE:

Culture: Prime Time Gift To Nation On Stratos
Photography: Wheelchair Bound Sexy Devils On Display

Scoop News Flash: Pumpkin's Father Arrested In Atlanta - Scoop News: American authorities have confirmed that United States Marshals have captured Nai Xin Xue in Atlanta USA this morning (NZ Time). An Interpol arrest warrant was issued for Nai Xin Xue in connection with the body-in-the-boot homicide case in Auckland, New Zealand. The body of Nai Xin Xue's wife Anan Liu (27) was found in the boot of a car in Mt Roskill after Nai Xin Xue abandoned their daughter 'Pumpkin' (3) at a Melbourne railway station. More >> [1]

ALSO:

• New Zealand Police - Operation Patch - Xue Captured [2]
• NZ Govt - Minister pleased with capture of fugitive [3]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00335.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0802/S00341.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00478.htm

Scoop Images: Body Movies - Body Movies, a large-scale installation created by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is running outside Te Papa every evening during the International Festival of the Arts from 9pm to 1am. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00341.htm

Scoop News: Peters Fights With Media - 28 February 2008 - Text + Images + Audio: Scoop's Kevin List reports: The reason people gave anonymously to political parties was because some donors have a lingering fear of being lined up and shot by communists according to New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00330.htm

Telecom: Minister declines Telecom's Separation Plan - Communications and Information Technology Minister David Cunliffe has today notified Telecom NZ that he will not approve their Amended Separation Plan. "I am declining to approve the Amended Plan that I received from Telecom on 19 December 2007. More >> [1]

ALSO:

• Internet NZ - Supports for Minister in declining Separation Plan [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00475.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00503.htm

Kyoto: Foresters And Farmers Drop PR Bomb On Carbon Policy - The Forestry Offset Scheme, proposed by the Flexible Land Use Alliance today, will see investors buying and foresting some of the more than 800,000 hectares of seriously eroding land. More >> [1]

ALSO:

• Flexible Land Use Alliance - New Land Use Alliance Focussed on Planting Eroding [2]
• Flexible Land Use Alliance - Retrospective Taxation Chills Investor Sentiment [3]
• Flexible Land Use Alliance - Offset Scheme Not Full Answer to Land Values Loss [4]
• Flexible Land Use Alliance - Green: Opening Statement [5]
• NZ Govt - Deforestation policy not as simple as it appears [6]
• United Future - Dunne on Flexible Land Use Alliance [7]
• NZ First - Kyoto Protocols Too Stringent [8]
• (TV3): Major NZ companies oppose climate change policy [9]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00477.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00475.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00476.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00478.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00479.htm
[6] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00468.htm
[7] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00465.htm
[8] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00467.htm
[9] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/5461.html

Finance: New Disclosure Rules For Investment Advisers In Force Tomorrow - New rules requiring investment advisers to provide up-front disclosure of fees and remuneration, including commissions, come into force tomorrow (29 February) and will give investors extra protection, Commerce Minister Lianne Dalziel says. More >> [1]

ALSO:

• Securities Commission - Investment advisers must disclose more information [2]
• Simpson Grierson - Corporate advisory: Securities Markets Amendment [3]
• Awa Press - Financial adviser applauds tough new regulations [4]
• TV3 Video - Commerce minister explains new financial advise legislation [5]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00455.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00483.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00481.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00474.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/business/5469.html

World Travel: Cuba Announces New Projects To Attract Visitors - The construction of a Museum of Tourism in the Cuban capital's Centro Habana neighborhood -- traditionally its most commercial -- is one of the projects planned to attract more visitors to the city, according to Manuel Marrero Cruz. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0802/S00425.htm

United Nations: Housing Rights Of Hurricane Katrina Victims - UN experts on housing and minority rights today called on the U.S. Government to halt the demolition of public housing and protect the human rights of African-Americans affected by Hurricane Katrina, which battered New Orleans in 2005. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0802/S00422.htm

Bhutan: U.S. Resettlement Offer For Bhutanese Refugees - Any assessment of the prospects of further refugee flows from Bhutan should be examined in the context of the announcement by the US government in October 2006 to resettle 60,000 refugees. Several other countries, including New Zealand, expressed similar interests. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0802/S00429.htm

United Nations: Secretary-general Ban Welcomes Accord 'Breakthrough' In Kenya - Urging further measures to end the deadly tensions that erupted after disputed presidential elections in Kenya, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warmly welcomed the agreement on principles for a coalition Government announced in Nairobi today. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0802/S00419.htm

Bruce Dixon: No Arms! No Transfers! No Military Aid! It's Time To Demilitarize US Policy In Africa - It's time to demilitarize US policy toward the African continent. Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, Republican and Democratic administrations alike have provided military aid, military training, military assistance and arms transfers. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00333.htm

Martha Rosenberg: Who Drank The Milk From Hallmark/Westland Cows? - The Humane Society's recent slaughterhouse expose www.hsus.org which led to the biggest beef recall in US history was an ethical and hygienic shock to the public. We're eating WHAT people asked. The downer cows were products of the US dairy industry. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00336.htm

Greg Palast: Exxon Suxx. McCain Duxx - Next month marks 19 years since the Exxon Valdez dumped its load of crude oil across the Prince William Sound, Alaska. A big gooey load of this crude spilled over the lands of the Chenega Natives. But Exxon didn't do it alone. They had enablers. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00338.htm

Scoop Lea Barker: Stateside With Rosalea Barker: Train Wreck Ahoy! - Like a passenger in a car stalled on the railway tracks with a speeding train barreling down upon us, I was transfixed by the idiot in the drivers seat, who merely shouted louder that there are no railway tracks and there is no train. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00337.htm

Culture: Prime Time Gift To Nation On Stratos - Asia Downunder has been a well-respected viewing favourite since its inception in 1994. This popular long-running show is now being screened nationwide in prime time on Stratos. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0802/S00320.htm

Photography: Wheelchair Bound Sexy Devils On Display - An internationally acclaimed photographic exhibition 'Intimate Encounters: Disability and Sexuality' by photographer Belinda Mason-Lovering will tour New Zealand. More >> [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0802/S00321.htm

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