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The top 20 rating items on Scoop today so far are…
1:
Indonesian
Ministry Says Timor Tensions
Easing
Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs tonight insists atrocities in East Timor have been largely quelled.
2:
USA
President Bill Clinton Arrives In New
Zealand
His motorcade is now heading into Auckland to the Stamford Plaza Hotel where the President will be in residence over the next three days.
3:
Scoop
Images: Amnesty International
Display
At the Amnesty international display on Queen and Wellesley Streets
4:
The
Pleasanties Of The Corporate
Culture
Last month my father lost his job which, in a country with relatively high levels of unemployment is not in itself a big deal. However the nature in which the job was taken had me astounded at the coldness of the corporate culture. Jonathan Hill ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Chelsea
And Mrs Rodham Are Accompanying
President
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley is delighted to learn that the President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, will be accompanied on his State visit to New Zealand by his daughter and Mrs Dorothy Rodham.
6:
Jakarta
Says Statement on Timor On
Monday
Indonesia’s Director of foreign relations tonight said a formal statement on the East Timore situation will be made on Monday.
7:
Scoop
Images: The Spied Upon
His tale reads like a scene out of the Frederick Forsyth book "The ODESSA File".But while what you read here is clock and dagger, it is not fiction.
8:
Why
the world is right not to act quickly in
Timor
In Scoop's second guest commentary Indonesia watcher Jim Rolfe of Victoria University argues that calls for unilateral military intervention over East Timor are wrongheaded.
9:
Indonesian
Govt. Says Dili Is In Army's
Control
The Indonesian army has instituted martial law in East Timor tonight and now has retaken control of Dili. That’s the message given to Scoop only minutes ago by Indonesia’s economy media officer to the APEC leader’s summit in Auckland, Wahid Supriyadi.
10:
Labour
– The Heads Down Approach
Continues
Events over the last week prove either that the Labour Party hire extremely poor PR staff or that the party is committed to the heads down approach to this election campaign. Scoop's Jonathan Hill reports.
11:
HARD
NEWS 10/9/99 - Blood and Fear
HARD NEWS is first broadcast in Auckland on 95bFM around 8.45am on Fridays and replayed around 4.30pm Friday and 10am Sunday on The Culture Bunker. A digest appears monthly in Re:Mix magazine. You can listen to 95bFM live on the Internet. Point your web ...
12:
Scoop
Takes You To East Timor And Inside
APEC
Wellington internet based news agency Scoop today proudly launched an internet based special focussing on the rapidly unfolding events in East Timor and in Auckland at the APEC summit. Presented with the assistance of nzedge.com.
13:
NEWSFLASH
- Watson Found Guilty
Scott Watson has been found guilty of the murders of Olivia Hope and Ben Smart
14:
Police
Arrest Anti-Clinton
Protester
Police have arrested a protester for carrying a placard inscribed accusing US President Bill Clinton as being a sexual criminal.
15:
Scoop
Images: APEC The Calm Before The
Storm
Images from around APEC yesterday before the Clinton roadshow arrived…it was peaceful and quiet…. Scoop reporter Selwyn Manning says the helicopters and security in place now for the President are now giving the atmosphere an Apocalypse Now character. ...
16:
Scoop
Archive: Exclusive Inside APEC - Canada's "Highest
Threat"
His tale reads like a scene out of the Frederick Forsyth book "The ODESSA File". But while what you read here is clock and dagger, it is not fiction. Published on Scoop for the first time in New Zealand is Jaggi Singh's account of what Canada's ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/5c/02/199908272232.361f8aef.html
17:
Auckland
On The Brink Of APEC
The skyline above Auckland’s central city resembles scenes from the movie Apocalypse Now. Huey choppers hover above Aotea Centre Square, their gunner doors open and at the ready. The “thud thud thud” of the sound breaking blades pound windows of the ...
18:
Wiping
student loans will not cost $122
million
The Alliance said Max Bradford's claims that wiping the interest on student loans would cost $122 million next shows he has no grasp on the student loans scheme.
19:
Protests,
Security, APEC Leaders and Road
Closures
By Selwyn Manning Amnesty International has set up a billboard of photographs displaying human right’s abuses it says are occurring in APEC member countries. The billboard is displayed on the corner of Queen and Wellesley streets. It is part of a growing ...
20:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
East Timor - Clinton - Hope And Smart - Qualifications - Fag Tax - Child Labour
21:
Australia
Getting Big Wake Up Call From
NZ
New Zealand's number one energy drink V is taking the highly competititve Australian beverage market by storm.
22:
Life
For Watson
Scott Watson's guilty verdict has probably brought to a close the most high profile criminal case in recent years.
23:
Only
Indonesia Can Save East Timor
Now
As violence threatens to take still more lives in East Timor there are probably only three people capable of making any difference in East Timor: The President of Indonesia B.J. Habibe, leader of the largest opposition party Megawati Sukarnoputri, and ABRI ...
24:
Old
forest gentlemen show their
age
Recent testing of some matai and kahikatea trees at a reserve near Taihape has revealed they are among the oldest specimens of their kind in the country.
25:
East
Timor As Seen From Dublin
East Timor dominates the front pages of the press here as it does, no doubt, in New Zealand, and there is a clear sentiment that the United Nations has made another catastrophic mistake.
26:
MFAT
- APEC Leader's Meetings Media
Backgrounder
APEC MINISTERIAL AND LEADERS' MEETINGS Auckland, New Zealand September 1999 MEDIA BACKGROUNDER Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade New Zealand September 1999
27:
Scoop
Archive: CNN and BBC - East Timor
This morning's East Timor News from the BBC and CNN. The UN will be allowed to stay and a delegation is to travel to Dili on Saturday to observe.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/f8/b7/199909100110.34ff7314.html
28:
Scoop
Archive: Jakarta Says Statement On East Timor on
Monday
Indonesia's Director of foreign relations tonight said a formal statement on the East Timor situation will be made on Monday.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/9f/90/199909102155.153dee2c.html
29:
Serious
Split In Labour's Ranks
The public should not underestimate seriousness of a Labour front bench MP resigning a portfolio over policy differences less than 100 days before an election, says ACT Leader Richard Prebble
30:
Govt
hopes Of Non-Timor APEC Dashed
Any hopes by the New Zealand Government that East Timor will not overshadow APEC look to be dashed this morning. US President Bill Clinton issued a press conference at the White House a short time ago protesting that Indonesia “must” ask the international ...
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