Today's Top Scoop Stories - News Summary
TODAY'S TOP SCOOP STORIES
SCOOP LEAD STORY
Crisis: Almost 1 Million New HIV Infections In Asia/Pacific Last Year
NEW ZEALAND
LEAD:
Animal Issues: Rights Activists Nab 20
Chooks From Battery Hen Farmer
Race Relations:
Precious McKenzie Recognised By South Africa After 42
Years!
Racing News: NZ Bloodstock Promotes
Efficient As Melbourne Cup Contender
Film News
(includes video): Sponsors Sought For Kiwi Film On
Kenyan Grandmothers
Scoop Images: Nice Day To
Start A Jazz Festival
SCOOP SPECIAL FEATURE: Why Fiji's
Military Believes It Ought To Threaten Its Govt
More
Scoop Reports:
SCOOP INTERNATIONAL LEAD
STORY:
Crime: Amnesty Int. Deplores Saddam
Hussein Death Sentence
UN Audio News:
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SCOOP LEAD
STORY
Crisis: Almost 1 Million New HIV
Infections In Asia/Pacific Last Year
Subang, Malaysia
- With an estimated 930,000 new HIV infections in
Asia and Pacific in 2005, UN agencies have called for urgent
efforts to better integrate HIV prevention, treatment and
care into maternal and newborn health services to prevent
the escalating spread of the virus and reduce mortality.
Calls for strengthening integration of these vital health
services came at the opening of the first Asia Pacific Joint
Forum in Malaysia. Image courtesy of the Clinton
Foundation. See... Call
for HIV prevention in child health [1] ALSO:
[1] -
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00085.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/about/feedback.html
WEATHER:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0611/S00016.htm

NEW ZEALAND LEAD:
Animal Issues: Rights Activists Nab 20 Chooks From Battery Hen Farmer
- Animal rights activists have broken into a Foxton battery
hen farm taking twenty hens early on Sunday morning. The
activists say they openly broke the law because they are fed
up with the government’s lack of action on animal rights.
See... Animal
Activists Break Into Foxton Factory Farm [1]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00086.htm
Race Relations: Precious McKenzie Recognised By South
Africa After 42 Years!
- Forty Two years after quitting the apartheid republic of
South Africa so that he could compete internationally in his
chosen field of endeavour, coloured weightlifter Precious
McKenzie, MBE, is to be inducted into the South African
Sport Hall of Fame. See... Precious
McKenzie to be recognised by South Africa [1]
[1]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00065.htm
Racing
News: NZ Bloodstock Promotes Efficient As Melbourne Cup
Contender
- A dazzling performance by New
Zealand-bred, Efficient (Zabeel x Refused the Dance) in the
Group 1 Victoria Derby (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday,
has catapulted him into Melbourne Cup contention. See... Aussie
Superstar Heads Karaka Quinella in Derby [1]
ALSO:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00057.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0611/S00061.htm
Film
News (includes video): 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
MORE
HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00100.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00087.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0611/S00105.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00076.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00075.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
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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]
ALSO:Scoop
Audio:
[2] Selwyn Manning on the BBC: Reports how
Fiji's government has lost control of its military after its
PM Qarase ordered the country's military chief to be sacked.
He issues an update on events.
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00023.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00027.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00018.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00002.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00028.htm
[6]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0611/S00042.htm
[7]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0611/S00017.htm
Scoop
Audio:
Selwyn Manning and Radio Adelaide's Peter Godfrey discuss: How Fiji's government appears to have lost control of its military after its PM Qarase ordered the military chief to be sacked.
MORE SCOOP
REPORTS:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00052.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00486.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/features/nauru.html
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00317.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00121.htm
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS:
Crime: Amnesty Int. Deplores Saddam
Hussein Death Sentence
- Amnesty International deplores the
decision of the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) to
impose the death sentence on Saddam Hussein and two of his
seven co-accused after a trial which, Amnesty says, was
deeply flawed and unfair. The former Iraqi dictator was
sentenced today in connection with the killing of 148 people
from al-Dujail village after an attempt to assassinate him
there in 1982. See... Amnesty
deplores death sentences in Hussein trial [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00064.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/about/feedback.html
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00081.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00088.htm
UN
AUDIO NEWS:
UN Audio: Climate Change a
Serious Threat to Humanity: Kibwana - UN Urges Support for
Africa in Curbing Global Warming - UN Rights Chief Urges
Moratorium on Iraqi Executions - UN Urges Greater Effort to
Prevent AIDS Among Asia-Pacific Women, Children - SPECIAL
FEATURES: New Report Points to Africa's Vulnerability to
Climate Change - Women, peace and security - a look at how
women are using a Security Council resolution to make a
difference in women's lives
MORE WORLD
HEADLINES:
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00089.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00086.htm
[3]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00084.htm
[4]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00083.htm
[5]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0611/S00082.htm