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Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For June 7 2010
Scoop Daily Ratings Top 30 Items For June 7 2010
1: The
Queen's Birthday Honours 2010
Governor GeneralThe Queen has been pleased on the occasion of the celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday, to make the following appointments to The New Zealand Order of Merit:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00127.htm
2:
NZ’s
Biggest Residential Receivership Sale
Bayleys Realty GroupThe biggest single receivership sale of residential investment property ever seen in New Zealand is placing seven large-scale multi-tenanted units on the market for sale – encompassing some 153 rental units.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00159.htm
3:
Secretary
Of State Clinton In Latin America
Council on Hemispheric AffairsA Renewed Opportunity for Regional Cooperation or an Intensification of the kind of Neo–Cold War Rhetoric that has Categorized U.S Latin American Policy to Date
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00131.htm
4:
Aucklander,
Simon Watt Wins Skycity Poker Tourn.
Sky City EntertainmentToday, North Shore resident, Simon Watt from New Zealand became the second ever player to take out the SKYCITY Festival of Poker NZPT Main Event. Simon outplayed 263 rivals over five days to take home the 2009 SKYCITY Festival of Poker trophy and $209,085.00 ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0910/S00266.htm
5:
Americans
Slow Learners About Housing Bubbles
Hugh Pavletich“ The housing bubble ‘didn’t start with sub prime – they were the guys who added gasoline to the fire. They (others – being regulators) created a mismatch which started the inflation in housing, that was turbocharged by sub prime financing’ ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00157.htm
6:
World
Week Ahead: The big hurt gets bigger
BusinesswireJune 7 (Business Wire) – So much for bets on an improving U.S. labour market and optimism that the U.S. economy’s recovery would offset lingering worries about sovereign debts in the euro zone.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00161.htm
7:
Mapp:
Humanitarian Relief In The
Asia-Pacific
New Zealand GovernmentIn recent years we have seen the crippling and debilitating effects of a wide range of natural disasters - earthquakes, as occurred in Chile in February, tsunamis, massive storm surges, extreme cyclones, volcanoes, and severe flooding.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00130.htm
8:
IUCN:
Stop oil and gas exploration now
IUCNGland, Switzerland, 7 June, 2010 (IUCN) - Following the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) calls for a global moratorium on oil and gas exploitation in ecologically sensitive ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00142.htm
9:
Gaza:
George Galloway announces new convoys
George GallowayViva Palestina ( http://www.vivapalestina.org/ ) founder George Galloway, speaking to a crowd of around 20,000 protesting outside the Israeli embassy in London, revealed the latest plan to bring about the end of the siege on Gaza.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00143.htm
10:
Man
Charged With Murder Following
Homicide
New Zealand PoliceA 23 year old male of Indian descent has today been charged with the murder of a 32 year old Indian woman in Tauranga.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00080.htm
11:
Lyndon
Hood: More and More Curious!
Lyndon HoodThe voice belonged to a large cat which was sitting on the bank and grinning from ear to ear... "Good day, Mister Cat," she said politely, "What a nice bank you have!" "Thank you," the cat replied. "I was considering selling it."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00038.htm
12:
Dyslexic
Get ‘Permission’ To Learn
Differently
Dyslexia Foundation of New ZealandTeachers from 15 schools around the Queenstown and Central Otago district and interested parents gathered at Millbrook Resort on Saturday (June 5) to hear from one of the world’s foremost thinkers on dyslexia.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1006/S00028.htm
13:
Cole
Takes Second Place At UCI World Cup
Adventure Media GroupMaxxis-Rocky Mountain team rider Cameron Cole, 22, has surpassed even his own expectations by finishing second at Fort William, Scotland yesterday in the second round of the 2010 UCI World Cup.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1006/S00061.htm
14:
APEC
helps business take advantage of FTAs
APECSapporo, 6 June 2010 – APEC has today launched a new gateway to tariff and rules of origin information to help alleviate the ‘noodle bowl’ effect created by free trade agreements.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00162.htm
15:
Ria
Van Dyke Is The New Miss Universe New
Zealand
Miss Universe NZAuckland-based Ria van Dyke, sponsored by Wellington company Econo-Heat, has taken the Miss Universe New Zealand title for 2010 in front of a packed audience in the capital’s Duxton Hotel on Saturday.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1006/S00057.htm
16:
Global
Raw Packaged Seafood Import Alert
FDA“Detention Without Physical Examination of Refrigerated Vacuum Pak or Modified Atmosphere Packaged Raw Fish and Fishery Product”, or Import Alert #16-25, is currently impacting exporters around the world who regularly ship modified atmosphere or vacuum ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00139.htm
17:
Conservation
Groups Unite On World Oceans Day
Forest and BirdOn World Oceans Day tomorrow (June 8) New Zealand’s leading independent conservation groups are meeting to work on the current unprecedented threats to our marine environment and natural resources.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1006/S00064.htm
18:
Greens
Congratulate Jeanette Fitzsimons On
Honour
Green PartyThe Green Party congratulated Jeanette Fitzsimons today on her appointment as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Ms Fitzsimons’ long service to the Green Party and her 14 years as a Member of Parliament were acknowledged in the Queen’s Birthday ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00128.htm
19:
Restaurants
Being Targeted In Reservation Scam
Newmarket Business AssociationAn Auckland business association is warning cafes, restaurants, and bars to be wary of emails that are circulating requesting dinner reservations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00155.htm
20:
Suspicious
Fire At Kerikeri High School
New Zealand PolicePolice are treating an overnight fire at Kerikeri High School as suspicious. The Fire Service were alerted to the blaze at around 4.20 AM this morning, after the fire had spread into a Science Block at the School and triggered an alarm.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00074.htm
21:
Info
Needed On Disappearance Of Raymond
Piper
New Zealand PoliceKapiti Police working on the inquiry into the disappearance of Raymond Piper are urging anyone with information as to his whereabouts to come forward. Raymond Piper, known as Son, was last seen more than three weeks ago, in Eatwell Avenue.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00077.htm
22:
Tracking
the American Epidemic of Mental
Illness
Evelyn PringleTax dollars are being used to fuel the American epidemic of mental illness by promoting the preemptive drugging of persons supposedly at risk of developing mental disorders, to the great benefit of the pharmaceutical industry.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00040.htm
23:
Homicide
And Search Operation Underway In
Tauranga
New Zealand PoliceTauranga Police are urgently seeking the whereabouts of an 18 month old girl, Anna Sangha, from the suburb of Otumoetai, Tauranga. A photo of Anna Sangha is attached.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1006/S00076.htm
24:
Theft
of Chandigarh Master Plans and
drawings
Citizens' VoiceThe issue of theft of drawings and master plan of Chandigarh is becoming a major issue and various citizen groups and NGO’s are demanding registration of FIR and recovery of the articles. Since last few years it has been regularly reported that ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00138.htm
25:
Soviet
Archives Provide Insight Into Stalin’s
Mind
Sherwood RossHistorians today are only coming to understand the complex and sophisticated individual that was Joseph Stalin, who ruled Russia for nearly thirty years until his death in 1953. Much of the information shedding light on the character of the dictator ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1006/S00039.htm
26:
Flotilla:
Was the Obama Administration involved
Global ResearchThe Israeli Naval Commando had prior knowledge of who was on the Turkish ship including where passengers were residing in terms of cabin layout. According to Swedish author Henning Mankell, who was on board the Marmara , "the Israeli forces attacked sleeping ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00134.htm
27:
No
Water, No Milk; No Environment, No
Economy
Green PartyJohn Key says it’s a trade off – he says we must balance more GDP growth against more environmental decline. In effect he says we can have clean and green, or economic success.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00125.htm
28:
China’s
Housing Bubbles: Quality Research
Required
Hugh PavletichIt is extremely difficult to find reliable reporting on the intensity of the housing bubbles across China, but this article from the China Post of June 1, 2010 "Economist sees housing market bubble" , appears to be realistic.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1006/S00160.htm
29:
Trans-Pacific
Partnership Ministers Meet In Japan
New Zealand GovernmentMinister of Trade Tim Groser yesterday joined Ministers from countries participating in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to exchange views and provide guidance to negotiators ahead of the second round of TPP negotiations.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1006/S00126.htm
Bobby Ramakant(CNS): The world's largest conference on women's health and empowerment in more than a decade opens on Monday, June 7, at Washington DC, USA, with a call to increase funding commitments for maternal, reproductive, and newborn health. The conference ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1006/S00136.htm
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