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Video: Leaders Treated To Fireworks, Sydney-Style
Sunday, 9 September 2007, 2:34 pm | Selwyn Manning
Scoop Video: APEC leaders were treated to a fireworks spectacular equal to that Sydney presented at the 2000 Olympics ceremony. The display was followed by an armada of tall ships, crewed by youth trainees. Inside the Sydney Opera House's concert hall, ... More >>
Photo Essay: "Peace!" Sydneysiders Walk The Talk
Saturday, 8 September 2007, 8:19 pm | Selwyn Manning
Photo Essay: Around 10,000 people gathered in Sydney to send APEC leaders one simple message: "Peace!" Police claims that the combined protest would result in violence were proven ill-founded as people of all walks of life took part in a largely peaceful ... More >>
Images: Major APEC Protest Begins In Sydney
Saturday, 8 September 2007, 1:53 pm | Selwyn Manning
Scoop Co-editor Selwyn Manning is on the streets of Sydney today covering the main APEC protest being held today at 10am Sydney Time (12pm NZ Time). Check back here for live news (via texting) on progress of the March. More >>
Scoop Video: Bums To Them, Power V Passion
Saturday, 8 September 2007, 12:28 pm | Selwyn Manning
APEC: Text + Video + Photos = Bums To Them... Power V Passion: Sydney's Hyde Park became the centre of Anti-APEC activities including a 21 Bum Salute aimed at the 21 leaders of the Asia Pacific economies who are now embedded into their caged vacuum ... More >>
Leaders Urged To Be Honest About APEC Impact
Thursday, 6 September 2007, 7:37 pm | Selwyn Manning
Scoop News: Representatives of 21 NGOs from the Asia Pacific region have delivered an open statement urging APEC leaders to "stop making claims" that APEC reduces poverty. The group gathered in the heart of Sydney's CBD outside the city's Town Hall. More >>
APEC 2007: Australia and USA To Push Nuke Solution
Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 6:03 pm | STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Scoop Analysis: Australia and the US have today unveiled a plan to have nuclear power generation as the cornerstone of its climate change proposal. This presents a cross-road opportunity that will test NZ PM Helen Clark's resolve. More >>
APEC: Court Considers Movements Right To Protest
Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 11:36 am | Selwyn Manning
Selwyn Manning reports from Sydney: Members of the Stop Bush Coalition attended a New South Wales Supreme Court hearing Wednesday morning attempting to stave off Police plans to prevent a protest march tracking through a high security zone on Saturday. More >>
Photo Essay: Sydney APEC 2007 Almost A Quiet Earth
Monday, 3 September 2007, 10:38 pm | Selwyn Manning
Photo Essay: Sydney-siders are about to be locked out of a significant portion of their city as police, guards, and the Australian Govt prepares a security plan to segregate Sydney into a town where people are either behind or beyond the protester-free-fence. More >>
Scoop News: Ali Reza Panah To Be Released On Bail
Thursday, 9 August 2007, 1:01 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Scoop Breaking News: Ali Reza Panah, the Iranian asylum seeker who has been held in prison awaiting his signature on documents that would see him deported back to Iran, has been granted bail. More >>
Paul Buchanan To Challenge Auckland Uni Dismissal
Monday, 6 August 2007, 11:33 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
Scoop News: Security and intelligence pracademic Paul Buchanan has been dismissed from his senior lecturer role in the political studies department of Auckland University. Paul Buchanan is a regular commentator for Scoop Media on intelligence and security ... More >>
UN To Consider Fiji On "Case By Case Basis"
Sunday, 20 May 2007, 6:12 pm | STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Scoop Investigation: Selwyn Manning writes that the NZ & Australian governments have suffered a set-back in moves to have the UN ban Fiji from deploying soldiers to peacekeeping operations. In response to Scoop's questions the United Nations secretary general's ... More >>
State Of It: Cullen's Burden - Budget 2007
Wednesday, 16 May 2007, 11:43 am | STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning writes: The burden Michael Cullen carries into Budget 07 is the dilemma: how to deliver to Labour's historical constituency at a time when political pragmatism insists Labour must seduce center/centre-right voters. More >>
Topol - Auckland Has In Its Midst A Champion
Thursday, 10 May 2007, 11:26 am | Selwyn Manning
Scoop Review: It began with a gray bearded man walking solo onto the stage, his eyes twinkling. He spoke to the hearts of his audience of tradition, of dangers, and of times when our past challenges our present. The man was Topol, playing Tevye the ... More >>
Govt Commissioned Report Into Loan Sharks Shelved
Saturday, 21 April 2007, 6:59 pm | STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
State Of It: A long-awaited Government commissioned report that examined loan-sharks and lending shysters who prey on low socio-economic communities has been put on hold - almost on the eve of it being publicly launched by two Labour ministers. More >>
Niue Premier Calls Expats To Return Home
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 2:43 pm | Selwyn Manning
Audio & Text Report: The Premiere of Niue has invited all Niueans living in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney to consider returning home. He encouraged them to do so, before family land they abandoned over the past 30 years is lost to them. The call came ... More >>
Scoop News: Thomas Yadegary Released From Prison
Thursday, 5 April 2007, 3:47 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland
BREAKING NEWS: Thomas Yadegary, the Iranian chef who cooked for Bill Clinton and who the government locked up indefinitely awaiting his signature on papers that would see him deported back to Iran, has been released from prison. More >>
Opposition Grows Re: Births Deaths Marriages Bill
Sunday, 1 April 2007, 9:50 pm | Selwyn Manning
Opposition is mounting against a controversial bill that, if passed, will see official records of births, deaths, marriages locked away from public eyes – shifting this information out of reach of researchers, historians, many genealogists and others. More >>
State Visit Signals Shift In NZ/US Foreign Policy
Friday, 16 March 2007, 4:09 pm | STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Establishing free trade between NZ and the USA is a long-held goal of New Zealand govts going back to 1990. But is talk of an FTA with the United States a clever disguise, a red herring masking a more significant shift in New Zealand foreign policy? More >>
Scoop Photo Essay: Manhattan Sojourn
Thursday, 1 March 2007, 3:33 pm | Selwyn Manning
Photo Essay: Manhattan Sojourn – Scoop's co-editor Selwyn Manning filed these images after a Manhattan stroll capturing the sights and scenes from the Hudson River, to Battery Park, Statue of Liberty, and New York from atop the Empire State Building. More >>
UN Conundrum Over 92 Fiji Soldiers For Operation
Sunday, 25 February 2007, 3:27 pm | STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning
Fiji's announcement that 92 soldiers from its army will be deployed to Sinai and Sudan has caused a flurry of activity at the United Nations in New York. But where exactly does the UN stand on post-coup Fiji? Selwyn Manning reports from New York. More >>