Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings February 2 2009

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

1: Global walk for nonviolence to start in NZ

New Zealand Peace Foundation

New Zealand has been chosen as the start for a global walk for peace and non-violence which will include all seven continents including Antarctica. The walk which will start in October on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthday, hopes to inspire ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00014.htm

Emirates Airlines

Award-winning Emirates Airline notched up yet another first today as it operated its inaugural Airbus A380 service to New Zealand. In doing so, it became the first airline to operate the A380 on a scheduled commercial basis into Auckland, and the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0902/S00022.htm

West Papua Emergency

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Sentani, [kabarpapua.com] - Indonesia Police and the government of Jayapura Regent break down West Papuan Emergency Camp. West Papua emergency camp is bild besides Theys H. Eluay. The West Papua emergency camp built because West Papua under emergency ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00017.htm

Anne Else

The Sunday Star Times for 1 February devotes a large amount of space to a new film about David Dougherty, who spent three years in prison after being convicted of abducting his neighbour, an eleven year old girl, and raping her at knifepoint in 1992.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00016.htm

U.S. Department of State

SECRETARY CLINTON: We are delighted to have former Secretary Shultz visit the State Department today. Some of you who may have been around a while know that he was Secretary of State for seven years and had a leadership role, was instrumental in so many of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00016.htm

Michael Collins

"The overall grade for the nation’s infrastructure is again a D and the cost to bring it up to good condition has risen to $2.2 trillion. In more than a decade, the United States has made no measurable progress in improving either the condition ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00017.htm

Vodafone

Late last year we announced we’d introduce a new online billing process that meant customers would be able to receive a TXT or email alert about their bill and could go online to pay it.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0902/S00025.htm

United Nations

Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is set to shrink this year, which could deal a major blow to the illicit drug industry, the top United Nations official to the war-torn country said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00018.htm

Business Council for Sustainable Development

The introduction of smart metering will give households a chance to benefit from the electricity market reforms of nearly 20 years ago - and use cheaper power when it is available.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0902/S00019.htm

New Zealand Government

Prime Minister John Key has become aware within the past 24 hours of the existence of letters written by Paula Bennett to the Parole Board and to a court.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00005.htm

Hyundai

Hyundai show cased some of its newest infotainment technologies at its debut at the 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. "In New Zealand we are known as car company so we want to introduce kiwi’s to a little-known side ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0902/S00001.htm

United Nations

The forced evictions of tens of thousands of Cambodia’s poor constitute a “grave breach” of human rights, a United Nations independent expert said today, calling for damages to be paid for lost homes and the provision of alternative housing.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00010.htm

CAFCA

The event will feature: • The announcement of the winner by chief judge, Geoff Bertram, of Wellington • A 30 minute episode of a well known comedy relating aptly to this years winner • Speaker Murray Horton (Campaign Against Foreign Control ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0902/S00007.htm

The Scoop Team

The post-cabinet press conference today focussed on the Government's intention to "send a message" to young people who do illegal things in cars. While not wishing to steal the thunder of this weeks planned RMA announcement and economic speech, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00040.htm

Rick Rozoff

In of the most monumental and sweeping, though frequently overlooked, efforts by the former Bush administration to project worldwide military dominance and in so doing further vitiate international relations is what its initiator, John Bolton, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00007.htm

The Listener - Gordon Campbell

The media loves a little Westie battler, but is not quite so keen on people who use privilege to get what they want. Last week Paula Bennett seemed to be both, at once.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00027.htm

Undernews

THE POOREST PLACE IN AMERICA Matt King, Times Herald-Record, Middletown NY - Kiryas Joel is the poorest place in the country. According to the latest round of U.S. Census figures, released late last year, the village has the highest poverty rate in the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00005.htm

Green Party

The Green Party says now is the time to charge full steam ahead with electrifying Auckland's rail network. Although the Auckland Regional Council (ARC) has suffered losses due to the global economic crisis, Chairman Mike Lee was adamant in today's ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00011.htm

Paul Levy

As a human being of Jewish heritage, I feel deeply ashamed by what Israel is acting out in Gaza. I feel so shocked by the horror of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians that it has literally taken me a few weeks to sufficiently integrate the trauma which ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00029.htm

Business Council for Sustainable Development

Sustain : NZ Business Council for Sustainable Development Newsletter. Emissions trading: bell sounds for round two. Support builds for ETS schemes. Major US companies concur with ETS. Mix of emissions pricing and other policies needed. Appeal of 'green products' ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0902/S00018.htm

New Zealand Government

The Minister for Social Development and Employment and Waitakere MP Paula Bennett is today releasing two letters she wrote in relation to Viliami Halaholo.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00001.htm

Skin Institute

The medical profession has moved quickly to answer adolescents’ pleas for better access to advanced acne treatments following PHARMAC’s decision to widen the prescribing rights of Isotretinoin (commonly known as Roaccutane® and more recently as Isotane).
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0902/S00003.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

It’s clear Prime Minister John Key is unable and unwilling to make the tough calls after his decision to take the minimum wage off Cabinet’s agenda, Labour spokesperson Trevor Mallard said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00013.htm

Subaru

Subaru was one of only a handful of companies to increase its sales worldwide in 2008.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0902/S00008.htm

Green Party

Ending stand down periods for Kiwi workers made redundant would mark a great start for new Minister Paula Bennett, says the Green Party.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00008.htm

UNICEF

Kathmandu, 30 January 2009 – Calling the situation a crisis for children, UNICEF today said that an increasing number of children, some just months old, had been injured in the fighting in Sri Lanka in the past 10 days. UNICEF again called upon ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00015.htm

University of Waikato

Spending an entire weekend in a computer lab might not sound like everyone’s idea of fun, but for 37 keen gamers participating in the first-ever Global GameJam at the University of Waikato it’s been a weekend of doing what they like best. Their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0902/S00002.htm

Statistics New Zealand

Total paid hours, when seasonally adjusted, decreased by 1.4 percent in the year to December 2008, according to the Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) released by Statistics New Zealand today. This is the first annual decrease in paid hours since ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0902/S00011.htm

United Nations

Indian Ocean and Red Sea countries have pledged to cooperate in seizing, investigating and prosecuting pirates off the coast of war-ravaged Somalia in a stepped-up campaign to curb a scourge that has wrought havoc with international shipping, including United ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00003.htm

Content.net

Feb. 2 – New Zealand wages growth slowed in the fourth quarter, as a contracting economy reduced demand for workers, giving the central bank more room to extend its interest rate cuts this year.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00036.htm

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