Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings August 23 2008

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

1: Niue: Corpse Held in Substitute Fish Chiller

John Andrews - Pacific Insights

Relatives of an elderly man who died on Niue Island are upset his body had to be held in a chiller used for storing fish. They believe the body of their patriarch, 91-year-old Tuhipa Niutama, does not deserve the indignity of having to lie in a ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00285.htm

MIAG

Alliance Shareholders have been sent a ‘Notice of Meeting’ to be held 5th September, 2008 that was accompanied by the following statement from MIAG in support of the SGM resolutions.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00419.htm

John Andrews - Pacific Insights

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Exclusive: Pacific Island leaders agonized for hours over the use of the word 'suspension' while debating their response to Fiji's boycott of their forum summit in Niue - John Andrews reports from Niue...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00289.htm

The Maori Party

A couple weeks ago I attended a resource consent hearing in Whangarei for whanau wanting to build a marae out at Taiharuru. Chantez Connor led their case, and although she began rather tentatively, she presented a good case for the whanau to be able ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00341.htm

finsec

Union members in ANZ National have reluctantly agreed to put the bank’s offer of a less than inflation pay rise and no changes to their debt sale targets to a ratification vote next week because the bank has told them it will not change its ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00289.htm

Catherine Austin Fitts

Any government official asked to come up with a workout plan for troubled financial institutions, large portfolios of financial assets and liabilities, and/or places that are financially challenged first must consider all the constituencies involved. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00290.htm

Scoop Review of Books

The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder Vanguard, US$27, Reviewed by MICHAEL COLLINS for the Scoop Review of Books Vincent Bugliosi wants George W. Bush prosecuted for murder. There are others who are complicit in the crime, namely the Vice President ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00291.htm

New Zealand National Party

National Party Associate Health spokeswoman Jackie Blue is calling on Health Minister David Cunliffe to sort out the confusion and concern around the drug Eltroxin.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00340.htm

TVNZ

TVNZ's Olympic site has helped tvnz.co.nz break through the one million daily page impression barrier the best results that tvnz.co.nz has ever had.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00416.htm

Family First Lobby.

Family First NZ says the government is guilty of being arrogant, hypocritical and patronising by suggesting that the Referendum on the anti-smacking law cannot be organised until mid-2009.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00291.htm

New Zealand Government

The clean up of the Waikato River to follow today’s Deed of Settlement with Waikato-Tainui will be one of the most important environmental undertakings in New Zealand’s history, Treaty Negotiations Minister Michael Cullen said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00337.htm

Bill Berkowitz

In 1962, two years after losing the presidency to John F. Kennedy, Richard M. Nixon ran and lost the governor's race in California. At a post-election press conference, Nixon famously told reporters that they wouldn't "have Richard Nixon to kick around ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00286.htm

Trade Me Limited

Trade Me has welcomed the decision of the Advertising Standards Complaints Board (ASCB) Panel to uphold its complaint against website www.myjobspace.co.nz for claims that it had over 110,000 visitors per month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0808/S00056.htm

Canon

If Dad fancies himself as a budding Peter Bush or possibly Peter Jackson then Canon has the ideal Father’s Day gift that will still leave the kids with money in the savings account.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00415.htm

University of Otago

One of the world's longest and largest trials of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has found that post-menopausal women on HRT gain significant improvements in quality of life.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0808/S00112.htm

BackLit Productions

Inspired by Noam Chomsky’s eminent lecture of the same name, The Story of Stuff sees eight female performers capture space and time, luring audiences into an extravagant territory where consumerism reigns supreme.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0808/S00234.htm

CB Richard Ellis

The New Zealand asset and property management industry is being confronted by significant change, with a clear shift in focus from blue sky forecasts on growth to basic property fundamentals.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00389.htm

Manukau City Council

Drivers are being warned there may be major delays on the main road into Kawakawa Bay so they should avoid using it unless travel is essential.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0808/S00242.htm

Federated Farmers

Federated Farmers president Don Nicolson said today, “We are a small pacific agricultural nation, looking to play our part in trying to solve a global issue which some say has been brewing for over 1000 years.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00418.htm

New Zealand National Party

There is something very very untidy at large amongst the senior ranks of our defence forces. This week a Court of Enquiry has released its report into the UN Housing Allowance rort fiasco.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00345.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00292.htm

Family First

Family First NZ is welcoming the success of the petition demanding a Referendum on the flawed anti-smacking law.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00283.htm

Socialist Aotearoa

Today ANZ and National Bank staff picketed at 3 major sites across Auckland. This is after stop work meetings where the majority of members voted to reject the 4% pay rise offer and hold a strike. After weeks of negotiations between Finsec and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0808/S00417.htm

New Zealand Government

Justice Minister Annette King has confirmed that planning has begun to hold a postal referendum related to Section 59 of the Crimes Amendment Act.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00348.htm

Scoop Audio

RDU Audio: Spank Dawg grilled National leader John Key about the Fiji situation and what action National would take if elected. We found out what John thinks about Boobs on Bikes and boobs in general as well as why National is being so soft on Winston ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00279.htm

John Andrews - Pacific Insights

John Andrews reports from Niue that Fiji faces suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum unless its military leader Frank Bainimarama complies with Forum leaders' dictates. A meeting will Occur in PNG in three month's time to consider Fiji's compliance.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0808/S00277.htm

New Zealand Police

Police are investigating a fatal road crash on Ferry Road near Gould Crescent, Woolston, Christchurch. At approximately 11.00 am on Friday 22 August 2008 there has been a collision between a truck and a motorcycle.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0808/S00237.htm

The Film Archive

NZFA MEDIA RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Treaty of Waitangi DVDs for secondary school students launched at Film Archive New Treaty education resources will be released Monday 25 August at the New Zealand Film Archive in Wellington.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0808/S00063.htm

The Maori Party

President of the Maori Party, Professor Whatarangi Winiata, has announced the Maori Party list which represents an impressive field of 19 candidates ready, willing and able to lead Aotearoa into the future.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0808/S00288.htm

SAP NZ

SAP New Zealand today announced the local availability of CRM functionality in the SAP® Business All-in-One solution addressing the needs of midsize companies to better manage every aspect of their customer relationships. Based on the latest innovations ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0808/S00055.htm

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