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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 24 2010
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For March 24 2010
1:
Irresistible
Tua De Force Meets Immovable Object
Maori Television ServicePUBLICITY RELEASE WEDNESDAY MARCH 24 2010 Irresistible Tua De Force Meets Immovable Object – On Maori Television! Team Tua admits everything is riding on his heavyweight clash with Friday “The 13th” Ahunanya, which will be broadcast exclusive, free-to-air ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1003/S00363.htm
2:
Attorney-General
slams Bennett’s welfare reforms
New Zealand Labour PartySocial Development Minister Paula Bennett has suffered an embarrassing blow with the Attorney-General slamming her proposed welfare reforms finding they breach Bill of Rights Act tests, Labour’s Deputy Leader Annette King said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00379.htm
3:
Future
Focus: a better off in work approach
New Zealand GovernmentA comprehensive package of reforms unveiled today by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett, aims to break the cycle of welfare dependency.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00328.htm
4:
Questions
and Answers - 23 Mar 2010
Office of the ClerkTax System—Improvements; New Zealand—Clean, Green Image; Mining in Conservation Areas—Prime Minister’s Statement; Mining in Conservation Areas—Minerals Stocktake
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00366.htm
5:
Link:
The Economist on NZ's Environmental
Record
Scoop LinkFANS combing internet sites are not the only people eagerly anticipating a pair of epic fantasy movies based on “The Hobbit”, by J.R.R. Tolkien, that it is planned will start filming this year. New Zealand’s tourist industry, too, is eager to ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00273.htm
6:
Some
facts about mining in New Zealand
New Zealand GovernmentMinister of Energy and Resources Gerry Brownlee says much of the noise around the government’s modest proposals to open up a portion of Schedule Four land for possible mining is ignoring the facts about mining’s role in the economy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00381.htm
7:
Natural
Dairy seeks consent to buy Crafar
farms
BusinesswireMarch 24 (BusinessWire) –Natural Dairy NZ Holdings today lodged an application with the Overseas Investment Office after announcing plans to buy the Crafar family’s farms as part of a $1.5 billion buy-up of land, stock and milk production plants ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00666.htm
8:
Martin
LeFevre: The Last Pope? Part Two
Martin LeFevre - MeditationsThe church that Jesus supposedly formed by telling his disciple Peter, “thou art Peter, and upon this rock I build my church,” is rife with pedophiliac priests, cover-up cardinals, and a pusillanimous pope.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00271.htm
9:
First
stage of gorge crash recovery
complete
New Zealand PoliceThe tractor unit of the truck which crashed this morning killing 49-year-old John Watene, has been recovered from the Manawatu Gorge and the road has now reopened.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00295.htm
10:
Why
EU Backs Nigeria's Amnesty Programme
Akanimo SampsonTHE French Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Jean-Michel Dumond, has given reasons why the European Union (EU) is very keen on seeing to the success of the Amnesty Programme to repentant militants in the Niger Delta, Nigeria's volatile oil and gas region.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00448.htm
11:
MARKET
CLOSE: NZ shares rise; PGC, NPX
advance
BusinesswireMarch 24 (BusinessWire) – New Zealand shares rose, led by Pyne Gould Corp., after the finance group said its Marac unit sold an insurance business into a joint venture with the Automobile Association. Nuplex Industries rose after announcing it had acquired ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00670.htm
12:
Who
will save Margaret Page?
Family Life InternationalFamily Life International is appalled at the apparent lack of action being taken to save the life of Margaret Page, who is currently trying to starve herself to death in a Wellington care home.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00375.htm
13:
CORRECT:
Nuplex guidance reiterates of
forecast
Businesswire(Corrects story that ran earlier today to show earnings guidance given in Nuplex’s interim report was first released with its first-half results on Feb. 25)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00669.htm
14:
Visa
to roll out chip and PIN technology for
NZ
VisaVisa today announced it will move to chip and PIN technology for all New Zealand Visa cards over the next four years, with signatures no longer accepted at the checkout from 2012, as part of a wide-ranging agenda to cut card fraud.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00665.htm
United NationsThe United Nations expressed concern today about reports that some opposition party members and supporters in Sudan are being harassed, intimidated, arrested or detained ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections slated for next month.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00435.htm
16:
Crafar
farms sold to Hong Kong dairy
investor
Alastair ThompsonHong Kong’s Natural Dairy NZ snaps up Crafar farms March 24 (BusinessWire) – Hong Kong-based Natural Dairy NZ Holdings says it will buy the Crafar family’s farms in a $1.5 billion buy-up of land, stock and milk production plants as it ramps ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00657.htm
17:
Philippines
Editor Receives Death Threats
International Federation of JournalistsThe International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Philippines government to urgently investigate a series of threatening messages sent to Newsbreak editor-in-chief Marites Danguilan Vitug in the national capital region of Manila in the past week.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00453.htm
18:
John
Key is damaging our economy
Green PartyAn article in The Economist magazine pointing out the lack of reality behind New Zealand’s 100% Pure branding, shows that John Key’s attacks on the environment are damaging our economy, the Green Party said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00377.htm
19:
Hawke’s
Bay winery earns record score for NZ
syrah
Te AwaTe Awa has earned the highest equal score (93 points) ever for a New Zealand syrah in the highly influential US publication Wine Spectator, just released.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00667.htm
20:
Flawed
bill will still cost Aucklanders
New Zealand Labour PartyLabour MP Phil Twyford says Rodney Hides third super city bill states that 6 of the Auckland CCOs will pay tax. Today’s promise by Mr Hide to make these CCOs tax neutral is an example of mistakes that are made when Ministers ram through legislation without ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00380.htm
21:
Auckland
CCOs will not pay more tax
New Zealand GovernmentLocal Government Minister Rodney Hide and Revenue Minister Peter Dunne have rejected suggestions that the new structure of the Auckland Council would result in an increased tax liability.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00376.htm
22:
Envoys
Task Nigeria On 2011 Polls
Akanimo SampsonHEADS of foreign missions in Nigeria have said that the international community is expecting Acting President Goodluck Jonathan, to overseer the most credible elections ever in the country in 2011.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00449.htm
23:
Government
mislead over property taxes
NZ Property Investors FederationA growing amount of evidence is emerging that the Government has been mislead by the Tax Working Group (TWG) over the merits of increasing the taxation for rental property.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1003/S00374.htm
24:
Katene:
Maori Commercial Aquaculture
Settlement
The Maori PartyI come to this third reading of the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement (Regional Agreements) Bill with a great deal of joy.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00383.htm
25:
Questions
for Oral Answer - 24 March 2010
Office of the Clerk# Hon ANNETTE KING to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: How many beneficiaries are living “the dream” on a benefit? # KATRINA SHANKS to the Minister for Social Development and Employment: Who will be better off under the Future Focus ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00373.htm
26:
Two
Men Arrested over Shooting of Young
Girl
New Zealand PoliceNorth Shore Police have arrested two men after a lengthy investigation into the shooting of an eight year old girl in Marlborough Park, in the suburb of Glenfield, in February.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00294.htm
27:
Man
killed in gorge crash is named
New Zealand PoliceThe truck driver who was killed in a crash in the Manawatu Gorge early this morning has been named as John Douglas Watene, aged 49 who lived in Feilding.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00291.htm
28:
Seriously
Ill patient airlifted from Waikanae
Westpac Rescue HelicopterThe Wellington Based Westpac Rescue Helicopter transported a Seriously ill 56yr old female from Waikanae today around 12:00pm 24th Mar 10.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00292.htm
29:
SH1
Mount Victoria and Ruahine Street
closures
New Zealand Transport AgencyThe NZ Transport Agency advises motorists the Mount Victoria Tunnel will be closed to traffic overnight on the evening of Sunday 28 March. This to enable road marking to be carried out on both the approaches to and inside the tunnel.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1003/S00296.htm
30:
Labour
supports twenty-first century smart
meters
New Zealand Labour PartyLabour Associate Energy spokesperson Chris Hipkins supports the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment’s announcement in favour of smart metering on electricity in the twenty-first century.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1003/S00382.htm
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