TV3 NEWS. 12/08/2010

News, sport and weather.
Main stories:

The Health Minister has admitted he has been making secret, unannounced visits to emergency departments to gather information.
Tony Ryall (Health Minister); Annette King (Labour Deputy Leader); Rebecca Wright (TV3 Reporter - live from Parliament).

A Christchurch City Councillor is quitting local body politics because of the row over her rate-payer funded trip to San Diego to study sandcastles.
Gail Sheriff (Retiring Councillor); Bob Parker (Christchurch Mayor).

Fresh fears of a global economic slowdown have sent the markets tumbling in a number of countries.
Mervyn King (Bank of England Governor); Brenda O'Donovan (Westpac Economist).

The Chief Coroner is calling for a reconsideration of the rules journalists face when reporting on suicide.
Heather Powell (Mother); Judge Neil MacLean (Chief Coroner); Jim Tully (Media Commentator).

Fiji's interim PM Frank Bainimarama is in China, where he has repeated his view that Fiji's future is with China, not Australasia. A look at censorship in Fiji.
Meika Bolatiki (Weekend Editor); Isaac Lal (Ministry of Information Officer); Associate Professor Ursula Cheer (Canterbury University Law School).