Today's Top Scoop Stories - News Summary
TODAY'S TOP SCOOP STORIES
SCOOP LEAD STORY
Foreign Affairs: P5 Mounts Pressure Campaign For Top UN Positions
NEW ZEALAND
LEAD:
Scoop Poll Watch: Labour Snaps Back
Lead Over National
Film News: Sponsors Sought For
Kiwi Film On Kenyan Grandmothers
Fiji Update: Goff
Says Commercial Flights Part Of Fiji Evac-Plan
More
Headlines:
Scoop Video Report: Doctors Criticise
MeNZB Doco As Scaremongering
Scoop Audio:
Scoop Images: To The FRONT! Veterans March On
Welly
Scoop Images: Nice Day To Start A Jazz
Festival
SCOOP SPECIAL FEATURE: Why Fiji's Military
Believes It Ought To Threaten Its Govt
SCOOP
INTERNATIONAL LEAD STORY:
Pacific News: Rabuka
In Suva Court On Mutiny Charges
Persian Gulf:
Bahrain Needs To Do More To Curb Human Trafficking: UN
UN Audio News:
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SCOOP LEAD
STORY
Foreign Affairs: P5 Mounts Pressure
Campaign For Top UN Positions
Andreas von Warburg writes from New York that Ban
Ki-moon has a tough job ahead. While keeping in close
contact with Washington, the Secretary-General-designate of
the United Nations is traveling to France and Britain to
face pressures on the composition of the new UN
“cabinet” of Under-Secretaries-General. He writes that
New Zealand ought to move fast should it wish to take any
top-positions at the United Nations. See... Dominant
Nations Press For Top UN Positions [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00062.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/about/feedback.html

NEW ZEALAND LEAD:
Scoop Poll Watch: Labour Snaps Back Lead Over National
- Labour snaps
ahead of National in the latest TV3 News TNZ Political Poll.
The projected number of seats in the House on the basis of
the latest poll results would enable Labour and the Green
Party to form a government. See... Poll
Watch: 3 News TNS Opinion Poll Results [1]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00061.htm
Film
News: Sponsors Sought For Kiwi Film On Kenyan
Grandmothers
- At a special event hosted by AMP Financial Services,
Qiujing Wong (Q) from Borderless Productions was awarded one
of twelve scholarships to help launch a unique filmmaking
endeavour in Africa. Further Sponsors are sought for this
most excellent project, A Grandmother's Tribe. See... NZ
Filmmaker Wins Scholarship For Africa Project [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00050.htm
Fiji
Update: Goff Says Commercial Flights Part Of Fiji
Evac-Plan
- Agenda - Defence Minister
Phil Goff says commercial flights could be used to
evacuate New Zealanders from Fiji in a worst case scenario.
Tensions are high in the Pacific nation, as the threat of a
military coup looms. Speaking on TVOne’s Agenda programme,
Mr Goff said. See... Commercial
Flights May Be Used To Evacuate Fiji [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00058.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00023.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00063.htm
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HEADLINES:
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00075.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0611/S00102.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0611/S00012.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00046.htm
Scoop
Video Report: Doctors Criticise MeNZB Doco As
Scaremongering
- Doctors at the University
of Auckland’s Immunisation Advisory Centre have slammed a
Norwegian documentary that portrays the MeNZB vaccine as
unproven and unsafe and its director Dr Nikki Turner says
the doco is "scaremongering" and is dishonest. So why is the
health profession so concerned about a foreign documentary?
Scoop's Selwyn Manning reports… See... Scoop
Video: Health Professionals Slam MeNZB Doco [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00048.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00020.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00018.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00009.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0610/S00065.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0611/S00006.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00077.htm
Scoop
Audio:
Click here to listen to the entire press conference.
Scoop Images: To The
FRONT! Veterans March On Welly
- In 2005 a decision was made by
the NZ Govt, with the full support of the Royal New Zealand
RSA to designate 2006 as the Year of the Veteran as a
further step to show our nation's gratitude for what our
veterans have done, and to enable a greater public
understanding of the service they undertook on behalf of New
Zealand. See... Year
of the Veterans Wellington March Past [1]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00052.htm
Scoop
Images: Nice Day To Start A Jazz Festival
- The first in a series of free outdoor concert brought the
groove to Wellington's Midland Park this lunchtime. Tonight
the tenth Wellington International Jazz Festival begins in
earnest, the start of more than a week of jazz performances
by local and international artists at Happy, the Frontroom
and other venues around town. See... Images:
Jazz Fest Kicks Off in the Park [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00047.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00023.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0610/S00073.htm
[4]
- http://www.jazzfestival.co.nz/calendar/
SCOOP REPORT:
SCOOP SPECIAL FEATURE: Why Fiji's
Military Believes It Ought To Threaten Its Govt
-
Scoop's Selwyn Manning writes that last week, while
covering the Forum in Nadi, Fiji, Scoop sought the views of
Fijians as to why their military was threatening to
over-throw the Fijian government. Should the demands of
Fiji's military commander be taken seriously? All said most
definitely. What's more, all said Bainimarama had their
support. Why is this so? Also, Fiji PM Qarase says he will
not quit. See... Scoop
Feature: Fiji An Icon Of Pacific Instability [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00023.htm
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS:
Pacific News: Rabuka In Suva Court On
Mutiny Charges
- SUVA (RNZI Online/Pacific Media Watch): The former Fiji
prime minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, will appear in the Suva
High Court today on charges of inciting an army mutiny in
2000. Rabuka’s lawyers are expected to argue before
Justice Gerard Winter that their client should not be put on
trial. If Justice Winter rules against the application, the
trial proper is expected to begin next Wednesday with
31prosecution witnesses ready to give evidence. See... Former
Fiji PM In Court Of Mutiny Charges [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00062.htm
Persian
Gulf: Bahrain Needs To Do More To Curb Human
Trafficking: UN
- While Bahrain has taken measures to address human
trafficking, much remains to be done to implement its
international obligations, an independent United Nations
human rights expert said today at the end of a four-day
fact-finding mission. See... Bahrain:
Mixed Report After Fact-Finding Visit [1]
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00060.htm
UN
AUDIO NEWS:
UN
Audio: [1] First Case of Child Soldier Recruitment
Goes Before the International Criminal Court - Australia's
Race Discrimination Commissioner, Tom Calma, calls for a
more positive attitude towards Australia's 150 indigenous
tribes - India's street children find shelter, health and
and education in railway platform schools - a project
originally launched in Orissa State by Inderjit
Khurana.
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00063.htm
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WORLD HEADLINES:
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[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00059.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00056.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00054.htm
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- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00053.htm