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East Timor: Human Rights, NZ Troops – Alliance Tax Policy – Child Sex Extradition – SA Bus Crash – Radio Announcement
EAST TIMOR – HUMAN RIGHTS: The UN Human Rights body has called on Kofi Annan to establish an inquiry into human rights abuses in East Timor.
EAST TIMOR – NZ TROOPS: Meanwhile the commander of NZ troops says many of his force are nervous about their imminent deployment.
ALLIANCE TAX POLICY: Alliance Leader Jim Anderton says his party’s three tier tax system will address the gap between the rich and poor.
CHILD SEX EXTRADITION: An anti-child prostitution organisation is pleased with the extradition of an Upper Hutt man to face child sex changes in Goa, India.
SA BUS CRASH: Police have revised the death toll in a bus crash which killed lots of Britons.
RADIO
ANNOUNCEMENT: There has been a mixed reaction to a
government proposal to set aside a radio frequency for a
youth radio
network.
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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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