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Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 29 August 2009
Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 29 August 2009
1: Darfur:
Senegalese Police Unit Deployed
United NationsNew York, Aug 27 2009 5:10PM A contingent of police officers from Senegal arrived in Darfur today, adding to the strength of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force tasked with protecting civilians and ensuring access for humanitarian ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00437.htm
2:
UNESCO
Issues Voluntary Sex Education
Guidelines
United NationsNew York, Aug 27 2009 4:10PM New voluntary sexuality education guidelines have been issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to help young people learn how to protect themselves against HIV and against abuse ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00438.htm
3:
Mandate
Of UN Force In Southern Lebanon
United NationsNew York, Aug 27 2009 2:10PM The Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for an extra year as it commended its role, in concert with the national armed forces, in creating a new strategic ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00436.htm
4:
Tom
Frewen: The Week In Parliament,
28.08.09
Tom FrewenLabour spends the week trying to embarrass National over the rift between its two support parties, ACT and the Maori Party, over the establishment of seperate Maori seats on the Auckland super city council.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00253.htm
5:
Top
Scoop Stories August 28th, 2009 News
Summary
The Scoop EditorTop Scoop Stories August 28th, 2009 News Summary LEAD STORY Mine! Minerals Grab In National Parks? NZ POLITICS Gordon Campbell: A Few Extra Reasons Why The Boscawen Bill Should Be Dumped ETS Report Delayed: Proper Procedure Prevents Pointless Policy ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00252.htm
6:
Scoop
Top 30 Daily Ratings 28 August 2009
Scoop Daily Ratings1: Earthquake Reports - Mag 5.2 Wellington, August 28 GNS Science Magnitude 5.2, Friday, August 28 2009 at 2:10 am (NZST), 20 km south of Wellington; Magnitude 4.3, Friday, August 28 2009 at 3:52 am (NZST), 20 km south of Wellington. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0908/S00058.htm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00254.htm
7:
AgriVenture
desperately seeks farming families
International Agricultural Exchange AssociationAgriVenture is in desperate need of farming families as the organisation urgently endeavours to meet the influx of agricultural trainees due to arrive in New Zealand. While employment opportunities have tightened due to the economic downturn the International ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0908/S00795.htm
8:
Pandemic
Influenza (H1N1) 09 Swine Flu, Update
144
Ministry of HealthThe Ministry of Health has been advised by Baxters Healthcare Ltd that the first shipment of the pandemic influenza vaccine will not arrive in New Zealand until early next month. The Government also has an option arrangement in place with CSL for their ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0908/S00138.htm
9:
Charities'
Financial Transparency to be
Discussed
Ronald McDonald HouseMichael Gousmett, formerly General Manager of the Pacific Leprosy Foundation and current Lecturer of Accounting & Taxation at the University of Canterbury, will speak on the importance of transparency of charitable trusts at a free breakfast ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0908/S00466.htm
10:
Key
Notes - Message From The Prime
Minister
New Zealand GovernmentMany parents get their children involved in school holiday activities. Things like sports training, lifesaving courses, kapa haka programmes, or karate workshops. Mums and Dads like these programmes. They give kids something to do and they get a new ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0908/S00440.htm
11:
3rd
National Australian Farmers’ Market
Conference
Farmers Markets NZFarmers’ market leaders from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Great Britain meeting at the 3rdNational Australian Farmers’ Market Conference in Victoria this week, pledged today to establish and uphold standards for farmers’ markets and ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0908/S00812.htm
12:
Emissions Trading Review Select Committee
Update
Emissions Trading Scheme Review Select CommitteeUpdate on Emissions Trading Scheme Review Select Committee Statement from Hon Peter Dunne, Chairman of the Select Committee: "I am consulting with members of the Committee with a view to resolving the content of the Committee's report, including the Minority ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0908/S00439.htm
13:
Enlighten
Designs Win at Microsoft Partner
Awards
Enlighten Designs LtdEnlighten Designs Ltd (www.enlighten.co.nz) are thrilled to have been named the winner of the Partnering Award of the Year at the New Zealand Microsoft Partner Awards 2009. Enlighten has won this award for the second year in a row. The awards evening, at ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0908/S00783.htm
14:
Fines show intolerance of environmental
offending
Environment WaikatoSignificant fines handed out today to a Crafar farming company and members of the Crafar family are a clear sign of the intolerance the courts and the wider community have for environmental offending that further degrades water quality, says Environment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0908/S00476.htm
15:
Quake
highlights silence from WEMO
New Zealand Resilience TrustA damaging earthquake in the early hours of Thursday morning is another reminder to emergency planners that Wellingtonians are living on a ticking timebomb. Recently there was a hue and cry from the City's Civil Defence volunteers about the lack of ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0908/S00451.htm
16:
Stars
Of Outrageous Fortune Strip Off For
Metro
Metro MagazineMetro magazine hits newsstands on Monday with a new look and a gatefold cover featuring the stars of Outrageous Fortune… naked. The cover promotes a unique photographic series inside the magazine — a tribute to a selection of iconic New Zealand movies. ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0908/S00457.htm
17:
Increase
in Primary Kids Assaulting Teachers
Family First Lobby.Family First NZ says that figures obtained from the Ministry of Education show that violent assaults on both children and teachers in primary schools has dramatically increased since 2000.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0908/S00385.htm
18:
Earthquake
Reports - Mag 5.2 Wellington, August
28
GNS ScienceMagnitude 5.2, Friday, August 28 2009 at 2:10 am (NZST), 20 km south of Wellington; Magnitude 4.3, Friday, August 28 2009 at 3:52 am (NZST), 20 km south of Wellington.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0908/S00058.htm
19:
Mayor
welcomes return to Auckland region’s
beaches
North Shore CityThe Mayor of North Shore City, Andrew Williams, has welcomed today’s announcement by the Auckland Regional Public Health Service that the people of the region can make a “cautious return to the beaches”. The ARPHS have warned that “children ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0908/S00477.htm
20:
Dan
Carter Joins Cupcake Crusade
RNZSPCADan Carter is joining the Cupcake Crusade this coming Monday (31st August), selling scrumptious cupcakes to help raise funds for the SPCA.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0908/S00384.htm
21:
Martin
LeFevre: Can International Law
Evolve?
Martin LeFevre - MeditationsA leading international lawyer representing defendants in international criminal tribunals, Guénaël Mettraux, says that Guantánamo detainees should “be placed under international control and their trials held on neutral ground.” That’s ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00251.htm
22:
Bush
& Cheney Prosecution Could Prevent
Crimes
Sherwood RossAllowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same. “The battle to impose criminal responsibility upon them (Bush, Cheney, etc.) is not for today alone but to safeguard a vast future,” ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00250.htm
23:
International
Day of the Disappeared
Amnesty International Aotearoa New ZealandAmnesty International calls on the New Zealand Government to ratify the treaty and take a crucial step towards ending enforced disappearances worldwide Imagine waiting for your loved ones to come home one day, and imagine that day turning into the rest ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0908/S00379.htm
24:
H1N1
(Swine) Virus Found In Turkey
United NationsNew York, Aug 27 2009 1:11PM The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today that the detection of the H1N1 flu in turkeys in Chile does raise concerns about the spread of the virus in other poultry farms, but added that it ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0908/S00434.htm
25:
Tariana
Turia: Health and Disability Forum
Speech
The Maori PartyI was really looking forward to coming out here today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0908/S00437.htm
26:
Minister
praises staff in hostage drama
New Zealand GovernmentPolice and Corrections Minister Judith Collins has praised officers who helped bring a hostage drama to a peaceful conclusion at Paremoremo Prison last night. “I am very proud of the work by our Police and Corrections officers who skilfully brought ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0908/S00436.htm
27:
Auckland
Scallop Season Opens on 1 September
New Zealand GovernmentFisheries Minister Phil Heatley is calling on scallop fishers to follow the rules when they go fishing in Auckland. The recreational season for gathering scallops in the Auckland and Kermadec Fishery Management Area, which includes Northland, Waikato ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0908/S00435.htm
28:
Mining
ntl parks puts $20b tourism industy at
risk
Tourism Industry AssociationOpening up the conservation estate to mining interests could put New Zealand’s $20.1 billion tourism industry at risk, the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand (TIA) is warning. “New Zealand’s natural scenery and landscapes are the main ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0908/S00808.htm
29:
Nitrous
oxide - the big baddie of greenhouse
gases
Science Media CentreNitrous oxide, which comes from natural and man-made sources, is the most damaging of greenhouse gases according to scientists who have been modeling the impact of the gas on the ozone layer and on the climate. The agricultural sector is a major ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0908/S00055.htm
30:
Springhill
Addiction Centre Move Gets Approval
Hawkes Bay District Health BoardHawke’s Bay District Health Board has had its application to move the Springhill Addiction Centre from Napier to Hastings approved by the Hastings District Council - subject to conditions. HBDHB applied to change the use of a former resthome, across ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0908/S00136.htm
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