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1: Indonesia’s
Triumph – Operation “Restore
Order”
Indonesia has been widely condemned over the past two weeks for its failure to keep order in East Timor. With calm apparently restored inside the Indonesian territory, Scoop's Alastair Thompson today brings you the first glimpses of the inside story ...
2:
Reports
Suggest Calm May Be Returning To
Dili
Reports today suggest calm may be returning to Dili and that the violence in East Timor is passing.
3:
Scoop
Images: More Images From
APEC
Shipley Effig - Tempers Rise Over Indonesia - Offensive (confiscated) Clinton Banner
4:
Peacekeepers
In East Timor Within Days?
Foreign Minister Don McKinnon says there is a growing belief that there will be a peacekeeping force within days as pressure mounts on Indonesia.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
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.
6:
Protest
Space Scarce As APEC Moves Into High
Gear
More immigrant groups representing developing countries like India, with a strong Kashmir contingent, are well organised and vocal in getting their message soliciting world recognition of the human rights abuses they claim to suffer back in India.
7:
WTO
and Taiwan Dominate Meeting of
Presidents
United States and China are moving closer to achieving an elusive trade deal and China¡¦s entry into the World Trade Organisation may be managed before the WTO talks scheduled for November.
8:
NZ
Singapore Free Trade Deal A "Bogor
Blueprint"
Designed on the blueprint of CER, New Zealand and Singapore have sealed a free trade agreement.
9:
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 ...
10:
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 ...
11:
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. ...
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:
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.
14:
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.
15:
USA/South
Korea/Japan Tri-Nation Pact
Brokered
A strengthened tri-nation agreement on North Korea is being brokered today by the USA, Japan and South Korea.
16:
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.
17:
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.
18:
Rebels
Welcome Prebble Speech
Prebble's Rebels New Zealand President, Clint Heine, today congratulated Richard Prebble on his speech to students at Canterbury University on Thursday afternoon.
19:
Life
For Watson
Scott Watson's guilty verdict has probably brought to a close the most high profile criminal case in recent years.
20:
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Images: Amnesty International
Display
At the Amnesty international display on Queen and Wellesley Streets
21:
White
House Briefing on Clinton-Jiang Meeting
Transcript: September 11 White House Briefing on Clinton-Jiang Meeting (Leaders discussed WTO accession, arms control, Tibet, Taiwan)
22:
Shipley
Calls For Rich/Poor Divide To Be
Reduced
A renewed commitment to narrowing the forever widening gap between rich and poor needs to be addressed, says New Zealand Prime minister Jenny Shipley.
23:
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.
24:
East
Timor: We Must Keep Hope Alive
As the forces of chaos gather strength in East Timor APEC faces its greatest challenge. Scoop's Alastair Thompson argues we owe it to the people of East Timor not to give up hope.
25:
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 ...
26:
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.
27:
Minister's
Imagination Working
Overtime
Forest and Bird field officer, Eugenie Sage has rejected as nonsense, SOE Minister, Tony Ryall's claims of her influencing Labour leader, Helen Clark in relation to Labour's West Coast forests policy.
28:
Man
Charged With Offensive Behaviour
A 50-year-old man is due to appear in the Auckland District Court on Monday the 13th of September 1999 charged with Offensive Behaviour. Detective Senior Sergeant Allan Boreham said the American man was arrested during a protest on Queen Street on Saturday ...
29:
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.
30:
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 ...
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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