Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 2 March 2008

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: NZ Post Offers Retailers Brand New Payment Option

New Zealand Post

From Thursday 6 March 2008 New Zealand Post and Visa International will be offering New Zealand e-tailers an opportunity to expand their customer base with the launch of “Loaded”, the country’s first general-purpose reloadable prepaid Visa card.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0803/S00006.htm

ACT New Zealand

I am delighted to announce that Sir Roger Douglas has committed his formidable skills and experience to the 2008 ACT Campaign.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00005.htm

Sam Smith

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SAM SMITH - AP started it in their lead story on Ralph Nader's announcement that he is running for president: "He is still loathed by many Democrats who call him a spoiler and claim his candidacy in 2000 cost the party the election by siphoning ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00007.htm

Green Party

The Young Greens will be strongly campaigning in support of Sue Bradford's Youth Rate Abolition Bill, Green Party Youth Affairs Spokesperson Metiria Turei says.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0512/S00134.htm

Effie Awards

Singapore, 29th February 2008. The first-ever Asia Pacific Effie Awards, which recognize the most effective advertising and marketing campaigns across the region, were presented in Singapore this evening at a gala dinner marking the close of the inaugural World ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0803/S00005.htm

The Maori Party

The precious love lyrics of 'E Ipo' will be resonating in many Maori homes around Aotearoa, said Dr Pita Sharples today at hearing of the death of Missy Teka.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00002.htm

The Marketing Association

Oxfam ‘Unwrapped’ campaign by TEQUILA\ and Onecard Wine programme by Proximity iD share top honours at NZ Direct & Interactive Marketing Awards
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0803/S00004.htm

New Zealand Government

“Missy Teka was a talented musician in her own right, a wonderful person and a good friend. I am truly saddened by her passing” Minister of Maori Affairs, Parekura Horomia said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0802/S00502.htm

Global Peace And Justice Auckland

Wednesday 5th March, Auckland District Court, Albert Street, 9am to 11am. All the defendants arrested in the so-called anti-terror raids on October 15th last year appear in court once again along with four further Tuhoe activists arrested last ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00010.htm

New Zealand Government

Labour supports the call from Every Child Counts to establish a cross-party caucus to discuss issues affecting children, says Minister of Social Development, Ruth Dyson.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00008.htm

GE Free NZ

Money Wasted; Public Left in Dark Over Non-GE options to Feed the World Last year traditional and non GM plant breeding methods achieved spectacular advances. The breakthrough developments produced plants with higher nutritional values, tolerance ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00012.htm

Alastair Thompson

HE Mr José Luis Robaina Garcia arrived in New Zealand with little fanfair on Halloween last year and was officially credentialed by the Governor General in early November . Since then he has been busy establishing a little piece of Cuba in Embassy Row ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0802/S00346.htm

Abukar Arman

Whenever the media fails to press and keep the powerful at check the inevitable consequence is prolonged oppression, lethal destruction, and radicalized insurgency. Aside from Baghdad, nowhere is such consequence more evident than in Gaza and Mogadishu.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00011.htm

UNICEF

“Children’s Day 2008 gives us a very special reason to celebrate and congratulate our Parliament on its courageous stand in support of children.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00011.htm

Smokefree Coalition

The Smokefree Coalition is calling an alcohol promotion involving a cigarette tin give-away scurrilous, underhanded and reprehensible.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00013.htm

New Zealand National Party

The Labour Government's failure to deal with growing health workforce shortages is directly to blame for what is looming as a crisis of desperate proportions in public hospitals this winter, says National's Health spokesman, Tony Ryall.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00009.htm

NZ Dairy Industry Awards

Moving to New Zealand to pursue a dairying career has proven extremely fruitful for Arno Renes, who has won the 2008 Manawatu Rangitikei Horowhenua Farm Manager of the Year Award.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0803/S00002.htm

Scoop News

Scoop News: Candidates are beginning to appear for the vacant role of United Nations Special Envoy for Afghanistan after the collapse of the candidature of prominent British politician Lord Paddy Ashdown. Norway’s Ambassador to NATO) in Brussels.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00014.htm

Candor Trust

ACC should rethink if they plan to decorate NZ?s new drug test capable "booze buses" with bold anti drink driving livery alone. That could exacerbate the drug driving epidemic by communicating an offer of immunity to high risk offenders.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00007.htm

Spirit of New Zealand

The Hillary Step that the Spirit of New Zealand had made to allow the family to scatter Sir Ed's ashes on the Hauraki Gulf this afternoon at the waterline. The two young women in the photograph are: Left - Larissa Mueller of Auckland (Spirit of NZ volunteer ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0803/S00008.htm

NIWA

National Climate Summary – February 2008: A Northland flood, but generally a very dry North Island
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0803/S00002.htm

Rural Women

Rural Women New Zealand is part of the Government’s recently formed National Drought Committee, with our National President Margaret Chapman attending weekly meetings in Wellington. We have recently set up a blog, ‘Droughtspeak’ which you can link ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0803/S00003.htm

Greater Wellington Regional Council

A comprehensive water strategy is on the cards for the Wellington region following agreement by local political leaders to work in a collaborative exercise.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0803/S00002.htm

New Zealand Government

The Multi-Party Working Group on Family Violence is giving its full backing to this year’s Children’s Day.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0803/S00006.htm

Auckland Cup Week

Hats were firmly fastened and the pretty young things were out in force as Aucklanders swapped their traditional blue and white and donned the traditional black and cream for Mercedes Derby Day. Â
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0803/S00007.htm

Middle East News Service

Virtually every news media in the country is reporting the story below which is taken from the Sydney Morning Herald. My colleague Shraga Elam, an Israeli journalist living in Switzerland, a winner of Australia’s Gold Walkley Award and, for anyone interested, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00013.htm

Sam Smith

The Clintonites' sense of entitlement stemmed from qualities they valued in themselves and others: intelligence, skill in communications, and a managerial ability to rise above the factions and ideologies of everyday life.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00010.htm

Sex Therapy New Zealand

Lack of sexual desire, infrequent intercourse, relationship problems, sexual avoidance and anxiety about sex are the most common sexual problems experienced by New Zealanders. Massey University student Laura Buckley completed Honours in psychology with a study ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0803/S00006.htm

Internet NZ

InternetNZ (the Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) supports the Minister of Communication's decision to decline Telecom's Amended Separation plan. Today David Cunliffe instead set out further amendments he will require to the draft plan before he accepts it.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0802/S00503.htm

Toni Solo

Cuba was ranked at 51 in the 2007 UN Human Development Index. One place above Mexico. You will never read that fact in corporate mainstream reporting on Cuba. Nor will you read that around 90% of those eligible voted in Cuba's recent elections. Nor ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0803/S00001.htm

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