Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings February 7 2009

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

1: Scoop Images: Sevens Costumes Part 1 - Around Town

Lyndon Hood

Wellington celebrated Waitangi day – or more accurately, the first day of the Rugby Sevens – by dressing up in various cultural costumes and engaging in revelry, much which was could be described as 'drunken'.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00130.htm

Scoop Daily Ratings

Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00129.htm

UNDP

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PHNOM PENH, 5 FEBRUARY 2009: Despite remarkable recent economic growth and steady progress towards reducing poverty, the effects of the global financial crisis are now being felt in Phnom Penh. The question of what Cambodia can do to mitigate the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00115.htm

Lyndon Hood

A parade was held this lunchtime in honour of this weekend's NZI Sevens, giving the city a chance to greet teams from 16 nations, as well as their bobble-headed mascots. Music, dancing and costumed tomfoolery were also a feature.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00125.htm

Rosalea Barker

Who that was there could forget the damp squib that was Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Sesquicentennial in 1990? I lived in Wellington at the time, and prominent in my memory is some waterfront building that was painted blue. Were there waka on the ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00128.htm

United Nations

Hollywood star and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency Angelina Jolie has called on the Thai Government to allow greater freedom of movement for tens of thousands of refugees confined to makeshift camps after fleeing neighbouring ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00107.htm

CPPA

In response to recent dire developments in Thailand and Laos regarding the horrific plight of thousands of Hmong refugees, the Center for Public Policy Analysis (CPPA) will be co-hosting events in Washington, D.C. on February 5-6, 2009 with policymakers, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00116.htm

Australian Defence Force

Taliban insurgents operating against Australian and coalition forces have suffered a significant setback with the discovery and destruction of two weapon caches by Australian soldiers in Oruzgan province in as many weeks.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00112.htm

RAMSI

Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands Special Coordinator, Graeme Wilson, today congratulated New Zealand on their National Day, acknowledging the strong leadership role and contribution that New Zealand provides to the mission.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00117.htm

Africa Action

Thursday, February 05, 2009 (Washington, DC) – Representatives of independent Sudanese civil society organizations, media and rights activists called on Sudanese government, political actors and civil society members to urgently convene a conference ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00113.htm

United Nations

The head of the United Nations cultural agency today called for the preservation of a British man o’war sent to the bottom of the English Channel by a storm in 1744 with all hands and, it is said, a sizeable gold treasure.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00108.htm

United Nations

The world must tackle the growing threat of climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a sustainable development summit in New Delhi today, stressing that the crisis threatens to roll back development gains and lead to further economic ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00106.htm

United Nations

Employees of two Canadian Government agencies recently received training from the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) to enable them to better address refugee and asylum issues. “We view these opportunities to share information as ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00111.htm

United Nations

The United Nations is expanding its efforts to help Georgia tackle the longer-term challenges of last year’s conflict with Russia by restoring livelihoods and improving public services, after easing the immediate humanitarian impact of hostilities that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00110.htm

Regional Assistance Mission To Solomon Islands

RAMSI Special Coordinator Graeme Wilson today personally expressed his condolences to the Prime Minister and Premier of Guadalcanal as he made available a RAMSI helicopter for them to inspect areas affected by recent flooding.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00114.htm

BNZ

Good evening everybody - although where I am at the moment in Hamburg, Germany, it is the start of yet another very cold cloudy morning.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0902/S00124.htm

Global Peace And Justice Auckland

From March '09 workers in small businesses will be able to be sacked for any reason, or no reason at all, in their first 90 days of employment. The RAT PATROL has been launched by unions and community groups to make sure no worker get unfairly dismissed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0902/S00071.htm

The Maori Party

Co-leader of the Maori Party, Tariana Turia, is disappointed that United Future’s MP, Peter Dunne, has attempted to sour the spirit of optimism that many New Zealanders are attaching to Waitangi Day.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00084.htm

New Zealand Labour Party

Labour’s Chris Carter has slammed today’s move by Education Minister Anne Tolley to abolish the requirement that healthy food options be available in schools where food is sold.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00085.htm

WWF

Brussels, 5 February 2009—The European Commission today announced a new Action Plan to protect sharks in European waters, which has been broadly welcomed by WWF and TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0902/S00069.htm

Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC

Education Minister Anne Tolley’s decision to remove the requirement for schools to provide only healthy food options for sale on their premises (aside from occasional fundraisers) is a stride backwards in education.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0902/S00070.htm

The Scoop Team

Scoop's coverage of Wellington city and it's many costumes during the NZI International Rugby Sevens 2009
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0902/S00126.htm

New Zealand School Trustees Association

The President of the New Zealand School Trustees Association Lorraine Kerr says the Minister of Education is to be congratulated on her announcement that the requirement on boards to ensure that only healthy food and drink is available at schools is to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0902/S00020.htm

NZUSA

Along with thousands of other low wage workers, students will be hoping the government has heard their calls and will deliver a rise in the minimum wage when Cabinet meets on Monday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0902/S00068.htm

International Solidarity Movement

We reiterate the need for a call from Palestinian community based organisations and the over 130 grassroots NGOs in the Palestinian NGO Network for an immediate opening of all border crossings currently controlled by Israel and Egypt.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00104.htm

New Zealand Government

Environment Minister Nick Smith today announced the start of a search for New Zealand’s latest batch of environmental champions, calling for nominations for the 2009 Green Ribbon Awards.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00087.htm

Triangle Television

A piece of history for the thriving Filipino community in New Zealand will unfold when Pinoy Zed, a Filipino TV magazine comes to NZ television.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0902/S00112.htm

United Nations

The United Nations human rights office in Nepal today welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to order police to name top officials regarding the 2003 enforced disappearances of five students, calling on the Government to bring those behind such acts to justice.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0902/S00109.htm

New Zealand Government

New Zealand will make an initial contribution of $100,000 to help people affected by flooding in Solomon Islands, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0902/S00086.htm

Public Health Association

Public Health Association (PHA) National Executive Officer, Dr Gay Keating, says the decision to reintroduce unhealthy food to school cafes flies in the face of the latest international evidence on the link between obesity and cancer.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0902/S00027.htm

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