Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 11 March 2007

Monday, 12 March 2007, 8:39 am
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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Diet Drink Link To Cancer

Cancer Research Centre

Two New Studies on Aspartame and Diet Drinks Confirm Source of Obesity, Cancer/Malignant Brain Tumor Epidemics
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00174.htm

Council on Hemispheric Affairs

At a time when his popularity has hit rock bottom at home, President Bush is slipping out of Washington today to visit five Latin American nations in the course of an six-day trip. Bush’s itinerary will take him first to Brazil, then south to Uruguay ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00177.htm

MEDIACOM

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Many businesses using IT in the Asia Pacific region could benefit from using the 2007 Technology Benchmark study, just released by Reset Group, a leading Australasian benchmarking firm.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00201.htm

Survival International

The army and police in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh, arrested two Jumma tribal leaders this week, adding to the growing number of arrests since a state of emergency was declared in January. Several of those arrested have been tortured.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00182.htm

Starship

Heineken To Host Rugby World Cup 2007 Gala Dinner With HRH The Duke Of York
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0703/S00112.htm

New Zealand Government

A huge increase in the number of tickets issued for exceeding the speed limit by 6-10 kilometres an hour again raises suspicions of a ticket quota and revenue-gathering policy by the Government, says National’s Police spokesman, Chester Borrows.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00197.htm

The Maori Party

Maori Party Treaty Spokesperson Te Ururoa Flavell, today was critical of the delays and incompetence meted out to whanau, hapu and iwi across the motu, by the various arms of Government and its agency in their mis-management of Maori land.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00196.htm

New Zealand Government

Auckland lawyer Allan Christopher Roberts has been appointed a District Court Judge and will sit in New Plymouth.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00195.htm

New Zealand Government

To suggest he and Mr English are seeing eye to eye is laughable. The honeymoon for Mr Key is over.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00194.htm

Automobile Association

Media Release: 9 March 2007 Embargoed until 10pm Volvo S80 V8 AWD Wins 2007 AA Motoring Excellence Supreme Award The Supreme Winner of the 2007 AA Motoring Excellence Awards has been announced in Auckland tonight. Stella Stocks, General Manager of AA Technical ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00196.htm

International Trade Union Federation

Geneva, Switzerland, 9 March 2007 (ITUC OnLine) - Trade union leaders from Brazil, India, South Africa, and other developing countries, traveled this week to a Global Unions meeting in Geneva to deliver a message to WTO members rising unemployment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00181.htm

Secretariat of the Pacific Community

Port Vila, Vanuatu, 9 March 2007 – Health ministers and senior officials from 21 Pacific Island countries and areas will meet here from 12 to 15 March 2007 to seek ways to further promote the health of Pacific Island people and to strengthen the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00178.htm

Automobile Association

AA Announces 2007 Motoring Excellence Awards for Crossover and Performance / Sports Cars and Motoring Journalist
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00194.htm

Organization for Women's Liberation

Assemblies in different cities For freedom and equality 2007 People in Iran welcomed 8th March this year by organising many events well ahead of the actual day in different cities all over the country. It culminated in major gatherings on Thursday, international ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00184.htm

Sky Television

SKY News today announced a major boost to independent news production in NZ spearheaded by a new nightly program “SKY NEWS NZ Evening News”.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00199.htm

RNZSPCA

The Royal New Zealand SPCA has dismissed complaints from breeders concerning its plans to de-sex the severely neglected cats found this week on a Central North Island farm.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0703/S00134.htm

Hanover Group

Disciplined lending and matching funds inflow to requirements delivers record half year profit Disciplined lending and matching funds inflow to lending requirements contributed to Hanover Finance recording a 20% increase in profit after tax to $20.9 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00202.htm

David Swanson

House Appropriations Chair David Obey (Dem., Wisc.) ran into woman in the hallway in Washington recently and ended up yelling at her and her friends, accusing them of "smoking something that's not legal" if they disagreed with him, and denouncing ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0703/S00154.htm

Port Of Spain

PORT OF SPAIN, Mar. 10 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ -- Following an incident at the Trinidad Hilton on Wednesday, March 7, in which guests and staff at the hotel were affected by what appeared to be teargas, the Minister of National Security of Trinidad and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00175.htm

UK Government

European leaders have agreed to binding targets on the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00183.htm

ITUC

Brussels, 9 March 2007 (ITUC OnLine): The ITUC and its European counterpart ETUC have addressed a strong protest to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadjinejad over the mass arrests of Iranian women demanding equal rights. 33 were arrested and imprisoned ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00185.htm

Nelson City Council

Nelson has a new King of the Hill - Tim Bayley took the title on Saturday at Nelson's Collingwood Street Fresh Choice Trolley Derby, racing in a streamlined wood-ribbed construction called Red Rak Racer II.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00149.htm

NZ Dairy Industry Awards

Manaia sharemilkers Christopher and Catherine Cook and James Murphy have won the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Taranaki Sharemilker of the Year title at an awards event in Stratford tonight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00200.htm

New Zealand Government

New Zealand's Light Armoured Vehicles (NZLAV) are state of the art armoured vehicles designed to provide high protection to New Zealand defence personnel should they be deployed in high risk environments.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00193.htm

Australian Defence Force

The task to recover the wreckage of the Black Hawk helicopter that was lost last year in almost 3000 metres of water is drawing to a close. A week-long effort to recover the wreckage will complete tonight.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00179.htm

RAM

At noon today, a RAM delegation delivered a protest letter to the Auckland consul of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Mr Kim Yun-Sung. (See letter below.)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00176.htm

Incubators New Zealand

Helping New Zealand find more success stories like Trademe is the aim of the Gen-i New Zealand Incubator Awards, with this year’s finalists including many of the country’s hottest start-up companies.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0703/S00197.htm

Vodafone id Dunedin Fashion Week

Presenting Camille Howie - from ID to the international world of fashion If her "Fold/Form" collection is anything to go by, expect big things from Camille Howie (Auckland University of Technology) who was announced winner of New Zealand's Vodafone ID Dunedin Emerging ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0703/S00147.htm

New Zealand Government

A new report detailing the status of New Zealand's national bird, the kiwi, was launched today by Conservation Minister Chris Carter. The report highlights a huge increase in private kiwi conservation efforts around New Zealand, and was launched at Auckland ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0703/S00181.htm

Animals Asia Foundation

Statement by AAF Founder and CEO Jill Robinson on NPC Member’s Call to End Bear Farming
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00172.htm

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