Today's Top Scoops - 11 April 2008
Commerce: Ministers Decline Auckland Airport Proposal
MPs
In Action: Pansy Wong Goes On The Beat
Syed Akbar Kamal: Tamil Tigers And Ethnic Cleansing
Scoop
Satire:Trade Briefs
Former
PM Watch: Mike Knows Best
Unions:
Unite, NDU, SFWU Merge To Form 50,000-Strong
Union
Agriculture: Dairy's Golden Cow Keeps On
Giving
Statistics: Hotels Lead Increase In February Guest
Nights
Parody:
Sarkozy Marries Merkel, But Screws The Climate!
United
Kingdom: G8 Must Press For Action On Food
Crisis
In
Context: 'A Credible Budget' - Dr Sikua, Solomon
Islands PM
Sporting
Chance: Newspaper Group Welcomes IOC Comments On Human
Rights
Rosalea
Barker: Let's Play Spot the Torch!
Syed A Kamal: Tamil Tigers And Ethnic
Cleansing
Siddhi B. Ranjitkar: After the CA Poll in
Nepal
DRC: How Rich Whites Caused Five Million Blacks to
Die
Suzan
Mazur: Stuart Newman, The New Master Of
Evolution?
Comedy: Improvised Crime Fought By Angels
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LEAD STORY
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Commerce: Ministers Decline Auckland Airport
Proposal - Land Information Minister David
Parker and Associate Finance Minister Clayton Cosgrove have
jointly declined the application by the Canadian Pension
Plan Investment Board to buy a 40 percent shareholding in
Auckland International Airport Limited. "Our role has been
to apply the law as it is set out," the Ministers said.More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Reasons for Decision by Ministers [2] (PDF)
- CPPIB - Govt decision on Overseas Investment application [3]
- Auckland International Airport - Auckland Airport to focus on "moving forward" [4]
- NZ First - NZ First Welcomes Government Decision [5]
- National - Labour puts 'don't invest here' sign up [6]
- Greens - Greens applaud victory of commonsense [7]
- NZ Govt - Key puts up 'for sale' sign on strategic assets [8]
- Manukau City Council - Manukau City Council welcomes Government decision [9]
- Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa - Govt Congratulated for Preventing Airport Takeover [10]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00286.htm
[2]
- http://img.scoop.co.nz/media/pdfs/0804/0411_Auck_airport_reasons_for_decision.pdf
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0804/S00216.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0804/S00217.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00290.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00298.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00299.htm
[8]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00301.htm
[9]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0804/S00113.htm
[10]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00181.htm
NZ POLITICS
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MPs
In Action: Pansy Wong Goes On The Beat -
Last Friday night I got to experience what our police
experience every single day. From 4pm until well after
midnight, I went on the beat with the police in Howick. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00293.htm
Syed Akbar Kamal: Tamil Tigers And Ethnic Cleansing
- Sri Lanka's top diplomat in the Pacific
region Mr. Kusum Balapatabendi paid a visit to New Zealand
recently on the occasion of Sri Lanka's 60 years of
independence. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00159.htm
Scoop
Satire: Trade Briefs - The Reserve Bank
has attempted to prevent overreact to a projected downturn,
urging the nation's bears not to "go into hibernation". It
is understood that the announcement was part of Governor
Bollard's efforts to stop people talking down the doomed
economy. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00160.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00160.htm#two
Former
PM Watch: Mike Knows Best - "It's moving
from farce to tragedy. I can't think of another country in
the world which would have a Foreign Minister who opposes
what his Prime Minister says is a big deal, the NZ/China
Free Trade Agreement. Another Minister says he supports the
deal but will boycott a reception... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00157.htm
Unions:
Unite, NDU, SFWU Merge To Form 50,000-Strong
Union - NZ's most active unions have announced
they are intending to merge into a 50,000 strong union.
AUT's Jamie Melbourne-Hayward speaks explores what the
merger means for workers, businesses, and the Government. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Carly Tawhio - Matt McCarten on Plans For New Union [2]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00152.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00161.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Agriculture: Dairy's Golden Cow Keeps On
Giving - Fonterra has announced a 40 cent
increase in its payout forecast for the 2007/08 season. The
increase, which is mainly in the milk price component of
payout, brings the forecast to $7.30 per kilogram of
milksolids. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0804/S00225.htm
Statistics: Hotels Lead Increase In February Guest
Nights - Total guest nights in short-term
commercial accommodation in February 2008 were 3 percent
higher than in February 2007, Statistics New Zealand said
today. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0804/S00221.htm
WORLD
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Parody:
Sarkozy Marries Merkel, But Screws The Climate!
- A ''wedding cortege'' of the most-polluting German cars
travelled along the Champs Elysée in Paris today, stopping
in various showrooms to distribute invitations to the
marriage of French President Sarkozy and Germany's Angela
Merkel. More
>> [1]
ALSO
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00136.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00137.htm
United
Kingdom: G8 Must Press For Action On Food
Crisis - UK's Gordon Brown has written to the
Japanese Prime Minister asking him as chair of the G8 group
of industrialised nations to take action to deal with rising
food prices, and calling for a fully coordinated response
from the international community. More
>> [1]
EARLIER
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00135.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00122.htm
In
Context: 'A Credible Budget' - Dr Sikua, Solomon
Islands PM - The Prime Minister Dr Derek Sikua
said the 2008 Budget is a credible budget, when moving the
Sine Die motion in Parliament this week to end the current
sitting of Parliament. He said it was credible because it
was done in the context of Solomon Islands. More
>> [1]
RELATED
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00132.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00133.htm
Sporting
Chance: Newspaper Group Welcomes IOC Comments On Human
Rights - The World Association of Newspapers
and World Editors Forum today (Thursday) welcomed Olympic
President Jacques Rogge's call for China, the world's
largest jailer of journalists, to respect its Olympic
promise to improve human rights. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00140.htm
COMMENT
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Rosalea
Barker: Let's Play Spot the Torch! -
Sensible people stayed at home and watched the Olympic Torch
Relay on the telly this afternoon, but I decided it was too
nice a spring day to stay inside so I ventured over to the
Embarcadero section of the relay route in San Francisco. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Matt Renner - Olympic Torch Protests Overwhelm San Francisco [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00156.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00157.htm
Syed A Kamal: Tamil Tigers And Ethnic Cleansing
- Sri Lanka's top diplomat in the Pacific region
Mr. Kusum Balapatabendi paid a visit to New Zealand recently
on the occasion of Sri Lanka's 60 years of independence.
Incidentally it was his first trip to Auckland at the
invitation of New Zealand Sri ... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00159.htm
Siddhi B. Ranjitkar: After the CA Poll in
Nepal - The historic election for a Constituent
Assembly (CA) has been successfully completed. Now, the
question is who are going to influence the making of a new
constitution of Nepal. In absence of scientific and even
crude opinion polls before and after ... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00158.htm
DRC: How Rich Whites Caused Five Million Blacks to
Die - How many Congolese must die to illuminate
one hand-held computer game? Nobody knows, but five million
have already been slaughtered in the greatest mineral
extraction grab in the history of the planet... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00140.htm
Suzan
Mazur: Stuart Newman, The New Master Of
Evolution? - On his recent PBS television show
One On One, John McLaughlin quizzed two religion authors
about whether the idea of the Virgin birth in the oral
accounts of the Bible had a reference in biology, with
someone mentioning... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00103.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Comedy: Improvised Crime Fought By Angels
- They found love in 'Love Possibly', and now NZ's only
all-female improv ensemble are back, taking on an adrenaline
fuelled kick-ass adventure: Improv Angels: they fight
improvised crime. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00112.htm
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