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Yesterday's top 20 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Scoop
Images: More LOTR Pics From
Ruapehu
Scoop is pleased to present a series of images of Lord of The Rings Filming from its content partner http://theonering.net . They show filming underway in Happy Valley at Whakapapa skifield on Mt Ruapehu.
2:
TRANSCRIPT:
Prez Clinton Does Standup Comedy
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen; President Page; President-elect Dillon; distinguished guests. I am really happy to be here. Happy to be reunited at long last with the White House Press Corps. (Laughter.) If I may, let me direct ...
3:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day -
Wednesday
Today's questions concerned the subjects of: Ill Treatment Of Children - Vote IRD - Greens And Mugabe - Foreign Ownership Of Fishing Quota - Anderton On Monetary Policy - Iraq Sanctions - GE Inquiry - Orion Upgrade - Heather Simpson - Plunketline - Margaret ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Scoop
Images: Mayday All Around The
World
Images from mayday actions in London, Yugoslavia, Poland, Spain and the USA. More images will be published of the global actions as they come available.
5:
Joined
At The Heart – Siamese Twins Are Born
Alive
Faith and Hope, two Siamese twins sharing heart and lungs were born face to face at Auckland’s National Women’s Hospital yesterday morning.
6:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day -
Tuesday
Today's questions concerned: Superannuation - West Coast Rimu Logging - Kiwi Bank - Broadcasting Advice And Policy - Rape Pardon - Broadcasting Quotas - Parallel Importing - ERB And Jobs - Waikato Health Computer - Dover Samuels On Frequencies - Nuclear ...
7:
Scoop
Link: Nice.com aren't very
nice
Nice.com aren't very, scoop learned today.
8:
White
House Press Briefing on the GPS
If you're ever wondering about your place in the world, we have an announcement today that should make life a little easier for you.
9:
Facts
About Rimu Sustainable Management
Could you please broadcast this to the widest group possible. I want the stakeholders and decision makers to have the following seven basic facts during this debate.
Protestors including Roger Burns proceed to McDonalds Manners Mall…and a handful of McDonalds fans brave the 200+ crowd. Miles Thompson reports in pictures…part 1.
11:
First-time
Data On NZ Internet Audience Activity
AUCKLAND - May 2, 2000 - For the first time, New Zealand companies have reliable information about how kiwis use the Internet. The first full month of New Zealand Internet usage data was released today by Nielsen//NetRatings, the global Internet ...
12:
MAYDAY2K:
Money Burning At Business
Roundtable
In the final phase of today’s Wellington May Day protests protestors moved up to the Business Round Table offices on the Terrace and burnt some money. Photos Miles Thompson.
13:
Mayday
In New York City - A Black Bloc
Report
At times it seemed we were walking on the side walk watching a police parade. People not from NYC need to understand. We have 40,000 police officers. An army of undercovers. And they don't bother with non lethal combat here. They know they can get away with ...
14:
Questions
For Oral Answer - Wednesday May 3rd
Today's questions for oral answer by Ministers. Paraphrased answers will be posted in the headlines wire shortly after 3pm.
15:
West
Coast Offer: Money Won't Fix This Mess.
"The Government's $120m offer to the West Coast is a scheme designed to fail" said Dr Brendan Moyle, a senior lecturer in economics at Massey's Albany campus. The government is not offering funding for economic development. It is using taxpayer's ...
16:
Bluegreens
Call For Reopening Of Rimu
Hearings
A call for the reopening of resource consent hearings of the aborted Timberlands proposals for the selective logging of rimu in part of the West Coast forests, has been made by Terry Dunleavy, national convener of Bluegreens, the organisation which ...
17:
PM's
Presser: Zimbabwe, Maori MPs And Singapore
At yesterday's post Cabinet Press Conference Prime Minister Helen Clark said she believed comments made by the Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon on the Crisis in Zimbabwe were " not helpful". Chris Holm reports.
“It is the wasted skill scandals and placement problems of current immigrants that the Government must address before embarking on well meaning, yet impotent policy reviews,” said ACT immigration spokesman Penny Webster. Mrs Webster was commenting ...
19:
Situation
update at White Island
Volcano
Staff from the Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences (GNS) visited White Island yesterday (Tuesday, May 2) to make monitoring observations and to assess the volcano status. The level of activity was similar to that reported last week. Minor ...
20:
Jack
And Mates Should Pay For Computer
Bungle
"Former Health Waikato board chairperson Jack Jenkins and other directors should be made to pay for the waste of millions of taxpayers dollars over their disgraceful computer bungle,” said Mr Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried ...
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
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