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NZTONIGHT WORLD SPORT FILM Finance Minister Mumbai: Beckham makes Four Holidays has grim warning a survivor’s story Jemma’s day reviewed PAGE 2 PAGE 8 PAGE 11 PAGE 13 TGIFEDITION.TV Auckland Hamilton Wellington Christchurch Queenstown Dunedin Sat: 23°/11° Sun: 21°/14° Sat: 25°/12° Sun: 22°/10° Sat: 20°/12° Sun: 19°/14° Sat: 19°/12° Sun: 23°/13° Sat: 20°/9° Sun: 22°/10° Sat: 17°/10° Sun: 20°/13° THERE’S ONE EASY WAY TO GET THIS SUBSCRIBE TODAY, ONLY $3 PER MONTH DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX EVERY WEEK... www.tgifedition.com EDITION ISSN 1172-4153 | Volume 1 | Issue 18 | | 5 December 2008 EXCLUSIVE on the Goff in lockdown, BARBIE INSIDE Cunliffe implicated FORCES By Ian Wishart Liu, real name Yongming Yan, is wanted by Chi- BRATZ Editor, TGIF Edition nese police for an alleged company fraud involving up to a quarter of a billion dollars. Papers released Labour leader Phil Goff is in lockdown mode tonight to TGIF Edition by both Internal Affairs sources RECALL as the Yang Liu citizenship scandal threatens to and the Department itself have revealed Liu’s entire engulf his front bench, with another top Labour New Zealand identity appears to be fake. If true, LOS ANGELES – The battle of OBAMA MP dragged into the controversy tonight. that would mean dozens of breaches of the Crimes the super-dolls has been decided. DUMPED Goff has been considering three questions from Act with maximum jail sentences of seven years or Mattel, the world’s largest toy She hung up on him company and the maker of TGIF Edition since midday, but at 5pm his chief even higher on each count, because of the network of Page 9 media advisor Gordon Jon Thompson revealed the companies, bank accounts and official applications Barbie dolls, has won a cru- Labour leader was choosing to stay silent. he has lodged under a false name. cial court battle that could The reason for Goff’s silence is simple: the New TGIF Edition sought copies under the Official prematurely end the ROCKING Zealand Immigration Service has now implicated Information Act of the file that went to Associate career of Barbie’s big- REVEREND former Immigration Minister and Labour front- Immigration Minister Shane Jones that“discussed gest-ever competitor, the s a s s y Al Green sings bencher David Cunliffe in the growing scandal sur- the option of revoking the permanent residency of line of Bratz dolls. rounding Yang Liu’s donations to the Labour Party Yang (Bill) Liu”. In a court ruling released today, Page 14 and the government’s subsequent decision to award Jones, as Associate Immigration Minister, was federal judge Stephen Larson him citizenship. presumed to have seen immigration files on Yang granted Mattel’s request to force The revelation is a body-blow to Goff, whose Liu, in addition to his role as delegated Internal Bratz maker MGA to stop making attempts to lead Labour in a new direction are Affairs Minister. It was in that latter role that the multi-ethnic dolls and from being overshadowed by what is shaping up as New Jones gave Liu New Zealand citizenship, against using the Bratz product name. Zealand’s most serious political scandal in years. the explicit warnings of officials who told him Liu’s Earlier in the year, a jury found that Up till now attention has focused on former Asso- identity was believed fake and that his citizenship the Bratz designer had developed ciate Immigration Minister Shane Jones, and his application was fraudulent. the concept for the dolls while on ministerial colleagues Rick Barker, Dover Samuels Internal Affairs sources have told TGIF that a an exclusive work contract with and – to a lesser extent - Chris Carter. recommendation also went to the Minister of Immi- Mattel before moving to MGA. But the addition of David Cunliffe, Labour’s gration recommending Liu’s permanent residency The jury awarded Mattel 100 HEALTH former Minister of Immigration, to the list of those be revoked while it was still possible to do so, but million dollars in damages – just MIRACLE who were tipped off about Yang Liu’s criminal the Minister overturned it. 5 per cent of what the company Salmon’s secrets record and who failed to act, means that Phil Goff’s TGIF spoke to then Immigration Minister Clay- had sought. Page 16 talent pool is now being seriously compromised by ton Cosgrove who denied any involvement with the Read more, page 10 the scandal. Continue reading Mumbai attacks highlight NZ security weakness to regard them as trumping clear evidence to the opposite effect. By Ian Wishart nounced Lashkaree Ta’eeba) – the organisation now TGIF he’ll seek a report from officials and has no “It makes sense, particularly if there is credible evi- known to have carried out last week’s massacre and further comment at present, but a lecturer in Afghan dence, not to regard the security clearances as proof Last week’s terror attacks in Mumbai have exposed hotel siege in India that killed nearly 200 people. and Pakistani politics at Otago University, Najib that there is no need for further investigation.” a glaring weakness in New Zealand’s border security Indian and US agencies have discovered the Lafraie, has warned New Zealand should exercise Documents obtained by TGIF Edition and Inves- checks – a reliance on security assurances issued by Lashkar e Ta’iba training camps attended by the caution when accepting security clearances from tigate magazine revealed the two migrants from overseas agencies. Mumbai attackers were held with the assistance of offshore agencies. Lashkar e Ta’iba had studied in hardline Islamic As reported in TGIF Edition last Friday, and the Pakistani army and the country’s rogue intel- “In general, it is true that Lashkar e Ta’iba has a fundamentalist schools, or madrassas, as well as at earlier on November 14, the Immigration Service ligence service, ISI. very close relationship with Pakistan authorities,” commando training camps run by the terror group. cleared two Pakistani migrants to work in New Zea- Those revelations raise a major security conundrum noted Lafraie, although he added that relationship As previously reported, the Immigration Service land on the basis of clean references from Pakistani for New Zealand: have members of terrorist groups was with Pakistan’s military agencies, rather than cleared the men before a police investigation was security agencies. been able to easily enter New Zealand because of our civilian organisations. complete, and without translating documents and However, the two men turned out to be members reliance on assurances from foreign governments? Lafraie told TGIF it was legitimate to continue videos in the Urdu language where membership of of Pakistani terror group Lashkar e Ta’iba (pro- Immigration Minister Jonathan Coleman told recognising foreign security clearances, but not Lashkar e Ta’iba was discussed. Before and after... trust Olympus The new E-410 from Olympus For more information contact H.E. Perry Ltd.phone: 0800 10 33 88 | email: [email protected] | www.olympus.com NEW ZEALAND 2 5 December 2008 off Mountain brings friendship to tragic end WEllington, DEC 5 – Two Japanese climbers stranded on Aoraki/Mt Cook were not just guide BEAT and client – they were family friends. Kiyoshi Ikenouchi, 49, died on the mountain, HOSPITAL SEEKS DEAD MAn’S CONSENT while Hideaki Nara, 51, was rescued at 5.30am MANCHESTER, England, Dec. 5 (UPI) – A woman today. said bosses at a Manchester, England, hospital asked that her deceased father sign a consent form before his Both men were from Tokyo, and had been trapped death could be investigated. above 3700m since last weekend. Sally Guidon said she wrote to North Manchester Though Mr Ikenouchi has been described as General Hospital officials after the death of her father, Mr Nara’s guide, police said the two were family James Johnson, 76, listing a series of complaints and friends. asking for hospital staff to investigate the death, The Mr Nara is in Christchurch Hospital suffering Daily Mail reported today. from frostbite to his hands and face. However, Guidon said hospital bosses responded He was in a “comfortable condition” but did not with a letter saying they needed Johnson to give written want to speak to media and asked for his privacy approval before his file could be opened. to be respected, Canterbury District Health Board “I cried for about an hour and a half when I got the let- spokesman Rachel Solotti said this afternoon. ter,” Guidon said. “It was the final insult, I don’t know why I was surprised by it after seeing the way they cared for Dad Mr Ikenouchi’s body was taken to Timaru Hos- – it is typical of them to make such a basic error.” pital for an autopsy. Hospital administrators said they apologized for the The pair were attempting Mt Cook’s Grand letter, which they blamed on an administrative error, and Traverse, climbing from the Hooker Valley to the said the case will be investigated once Guidon’s mother, South Peak, summiting from there, before heading who was listed as her husband’s next of kin, gives down to Plateau Hut. The supplies dropped by air can be seen in the red pack outside the tent. Sadly, the Japanese climbers never realised the supplies were ther. / NZPA permission to open the file. Mr Ikenouchi was believed to have died just hours before this morning’s dramatic rescue, after MEMO TO COP: TAKE KEYS OUT OF CAR the pair’s tent was buried in snow and they were It was “extremely hard” to know Mr Ikenouchi firmed this morning the pair were unaware of the JACKSON, Mich., Dec.