10 August, 2011
A road accident in Fiji demonstrates the Fijian attitudes, standards and law.
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Submitted by: Peter Jacobs | Categories: Features , World, Summer Reads, Pacific
13 July, 2011
A guide to street-performance in New Zealand covering bylaws in major metropolitan areas.
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Submitted by: Paul Kendon | Categories: Features
10 July, 2011
Every summer thousands of tourist flock to Phuket in search of the perfect sunny seaside holiday. Claire Connell explains how to avoid the common tourist traps and find the more unique parts of the island during your stay.
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Submitted by: Claire Connell | Categories: Asia, Recreation, Features , Asia, World
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15 April, 2011
Thirty years ago New Zealand endured with an event which changed the face of rugby and the nation - the 1981 Springbok Tour. When looking for people to talk of their experiences at this time many sources pointed toward a man who was once reviled as the face of police brutality and has since become a powerful businessman with no interest in rugby. OWEN WINTER goes in search of the real Ross Meurant.
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Submitted by: Owen Winter | Categories: Features
01 March, 2011
how-to create those green-with-envy "wish I was there" comments from friends and family; how can you bring great photos home from your holiday - 16 tips to help you.
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Submitted by: Heather Hapeta | Categories: Features
25 February, 2011
Planning a funeral helps us move through the beginnings of grieving healthily. Getting in touch with all the feelings that such planning exposes is painful but helpful, writes Heather Hapeta.
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Submitted by: Heather Hapeta | Categories: Features , Viewpoints
25 February, 2011
Having read Steve Braunias’ book “How to Watch a Bird" I was sure I’d prepared but it soon becomes obvious I’m out of my depth at this international gathering of bird watchers.
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Submitted by: Heather Hapeta | Categories: Asia, Features , Hobbies & Pets
29 January, 2011
Known as the human polar bear, UK-born Lewis Pugh has achieved some world firsts in extreme cold water swimming. This is a 800-word profile highlights some of these and Pugh's concern about the environment and the polar regions in particular.
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Submitted by: Sharon Davis | Categories: Features
24 January, 2011
Think of Afghanistan and the first things to run through your mind will (not unreasonably) be war, Taliban, and US military forces. But Afghan cricket proudly claims more than 70,000 male participants play in most of the country’s 34 provinces and that even the country’s most unstable areas have teams that compete in national tournaments. In a country where Taliban once banned girls from attending school, today in Kabul more than 100 women play. A new documentary film follows the fortune of the national team.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Asia, World, Asia, Summer Reads, Features , Recreation, Film & TV, Cricket
18 January, 2011
Business is booming for Khadija Ahmed, the female owner of the only sex store in the Arab world.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Economy, Management, Small Business, Trade, Asia, Features , Fashion, Families , Asia, Business, Features
18 January, 2011
Business is booming for Khadija Ahmed, the female owner of the only sex store in the Arab world.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Economy, Management, Small Business, Trade, Asia, Features , Fashion, Families , Asia, Business, Features
18 January, 2011
Facebook Founder Chris Hughes has launched Jumo, a social network that links individuals with charities, volunteer opportunities, NGOs, and causes. He discusses Facebook, The Social Network film, working for US President Barack Obama, and his own motivation.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Features , Science & Technology, Management, Economy, Industry, Ad/Media
02 December, 2010
In an hour, I will be hobbling painfully across the road among screaming vehicles, and cursing the prolific and steep metro stairs. But for now, I appreciate the emotion of the man crying beside me as we stop, and breathe. We have run the Paris Marathon and life is good, writes Dawn Tuffery.
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Submitted by: Dawn Tuffery | Categories: Athletics, Sport, Features
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23 November, 2010
First-person account of my brother's death and thoughts on how the media treat death and grieving families.
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Submitted by: Julie Starr | Categories: Viewpoints, Features
23 November, 2010
Rebecca Herring's creative strengths have turned a painting hobby into Art Style, a fashion and homeware business that provides employment for 27 people, supplies 80 stockists nationwide and has Australian buyers knocking at the door.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Fashion, Features
23 November, 2010
Obsessive recyclers Celia and Caro Allison say their commitment to sustainability is paying off for their homegrown fashion business, Dual.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Small Business, Fashion, Features , New Zealand
19 November, 2010
Violence is in and sex is out. When it comes to wildlife documentaries, Natural History New Zealand programme developer Craig Meade knows what audiences want, writes Amanda Cropp.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Film & TV, Features
15 November, 2010
For a few hours diners experience the life of the blind at a London restaurant as they eat their meals in the pitch darkness while being served by blind waiters. Inside Dan's le Noir? we rely on the blinds' eyes.
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Submitted by: Chloe Johnson | Categories: Europe, Food & Wine, Features
14 November, 2010
Prolific New York-based designer Karim Rashid has now completed so many global projects, and clocked up so many frequent flyer miles, you could take a world tour staying at hotels, dining out at restaurants and stepping on manhole covers designed by the irrepressible “Poet of Plastic”, who celebrates the completion of each major international project with a symbolic tattoo on his body.
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Submitted by: Penelope Barker | Categories: Features
07 November, 2010
Over summer buckwheat flowers amongst ripening grapes, nature’s little helper in the battle against voracious leafroller caterpillars. This is Greening Waipara in action, a biodiversity initiative that has attracted support from more than 50 local vineyards, and spread to winegrowing regions around New Zealand and overseas.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Food & Wine, Features , New Zealand
19 October, 2010
Hannah James, in her final year of school at Mt Aspiring College Wanaka, is the proof that competition is not the only, nor even the true, expression of sport.
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Submitted by: Pip Sheehan Lowther | Categories: Winter, Features , Recreation
30 September, 2010
An account of working on vintage in South West Australia that dispels a few myths about the glamour of winemaking.
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Submitted by: David Sheppard | Categories: Features , Food & Wine
20 September, 2010
Times are tough for everyone at the moment. Is it a good time to buy a house? This is something we recently did, and this article talks about the results.
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Submitted by: Phil Braithwaite | Categories: Viewpoints, Property, Personal Finance, Features
20 September, 2010
A first-hand account of the 2010 Christchurch earthquake.
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Submitted by: Paul Arnold | Categories: Viewpoints, Features , New Zealand
11 September, 2010
Talking to one of the few women mortuary technicians and funeral directors in New Zealand, Erin MacDonald.
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Submitted by: Heather Carston | Categories: Features , Jobs & Careers, New Zealand
11 September, 2010
Catching up with globally renowned underwater photographer Andy Belcher.
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Submitted by: Heather Carston | Categories: Features , New Zealand, Photography
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10 September, 2010
Background and beliefs of the Morton Estate Winery, looking at their history, the vintner, what they win and who they supply to.
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Submitted by: Heather Carston | Categories: Industry, Features , Food & Wine, New Zealand
01 September, 2010
The question of what it takes to be a New Zealander is difficult to answer – but this story takes a crack anyway. The answer? Fred Dagg knows.
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Submitted by: Hamish McKenzie | Categories: Features , New Zealand
31 August, 2010
An economy which seeks to move forward is hamstrung by receeding infrastructure. Frequent lack of electricity and poor access to communication technology is keeping Zimbabwe down.
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Submitted by: Sam Gregory | Categories: Politics & Government, Africa, Features , Africa
26 August, 2010
Mind games, neurolinguistic chicanery and a painstaking array of scripts and rules for basic human interaction: no one can say pick-up artists don't work hard. But after a week with one of San Francisco's most prolific pick-up men, it's hard to be sure what all the effort's really in aid of.
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Submitted by: Tom Goulter | Categories: Books, Features
19 August, 2010
New York performance artist Marina Abramovic talks about James Franco, UFOs, and her memories of New Zealand.
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Submitted by: Tom Goulter | Categories: Arts, Theatre, Features
28 July, 2010
A Manhattan gynecologist claims to be the first doctor in America to sell sex toys through his practice, saying he wants to save -- but also maybe cause -- women’s blushes.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Families , Features , Business, Features
28 July, 2010
A Manhattan gynecologist claims to be the first doctor in America to sell sex toys through his practice, saying he wants to save -- but also maybe cause -- women’s blushes.
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Submitted by: Matthew Hall | Categories: Families , Features , Business, Features
17 June, 2010
Leeches, leeches, everywhere. Close encounters of the bloody kind whilst trekking in Nepal leaves both physical and emotional scars.
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Submitted by: Patricia Compter | Categories: Families , Features
27 May, 2010
There's a special kind of clarity that comes with a frosty morning, writes Kingsley Field.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Columns, Features , Rural Life, New Zealand
26 May, 2010
Kiwi artist and activist Kim Paton has opened The Free Store in Wellington to give away food and raise questions about consumerism and needs.
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Submitted by: Duncan John Graham | Categories: Small Business, Features , New Zealand
26 May, 2010
At the age of 50 something, I'm thinking of getting married again. Sadly, the shorts and T shirt I wore first time around are no longer around, although other memories of my 70s wedding remain.....
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Submitted by: Leigh Bramwell | Categories: Families , Features
28 April, 2010
Perfect for Mother's Day. The ins and outs of mum blogs. Essay with interviews with Mia Freedman (mamamia), Nanette Louchart-Fletcher (rummage) and Amanda Blake Soule (soulemama).
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Submitted by: Felicity Loughrey | Categories: Families , Features
28 April, 2010
New Zealand-born Sandra Nunnerley on a little bit of New York real estate luck.
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Submitted by: Felicity Loughrey | Categories: Americas, Features
27 April, 2010
There's an art to cleaning and keeping house but its secrets have been lost in our times. Just ask your mother.
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Submitted by: Felicity Loughrey | Categories: Home & Garden, Features
27 April, 2010
Are we doomed to become invisible once we hit a certain milestone birthday? Felicity Loughrey looks at the highs and lows of aging in an era where women feel compelled to beat the clock.
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Submitted by: Felicity Loughrey | Categories: Features , Wellbeing
27 April, 2010
With design by Philippe Starck, SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, is a getaway unlike any other.
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Submitted by: Felicity Loughrey | Categories: Home & Garden, Americas, Features
27 April, 2010
With her breakthrough role as a fragile 1960s housewife, January Jones is the small-screen siren du jour.
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Submitted by: Felicity Loughrey | Categories: Features , Film & TV
27 April, 2010
Spurred on by Project Runway and crafty websites like etsy.com, fashionable (and frugal) New Yorkers are turning to sewing as a seemly tailor-made hobby - driving sales of sewing machines and sewing classes.
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Submitted by: Felicity Loughrey | Categories: Fashion, Features , Arts, Crafts
13 April, 2010
Account of a day spent in court defending a speed camera fine: 'The presiding judges seemed to be genuinely interested in the people they were hearing. They tried hard to pay attention and understand them. I’d certainly encourage anyone who receives a traffic ticket within the Rodney area to defend it at Warkworth.'
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Submitted by: Chris 'Worzel' Sellars | Categories: Viewpoints, Features , New Zealand
07 April, 2010
A look at the main ideas in US surgeon Anul Gawande's most recent book 'The Checklist Manifesto', which finds that simple checklists are one of our best tools for successfully managing complex situations - from landing a jumbo jet to operating on a patient.
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Submitted by: Julie Starr | Categories: Books, Features , Management
06 April, 2010
Meat glue, Xanthan and liquid nitrogen – they’re hardly ingredients that get tummies rumbling. But you’d be surprised how often they can be found in the fancy meals you order in New York restaurants – and how terrific they are making your food.
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Submitted by: Kirsten Matthew | Categories: Food & Wine, Features
28 February, 2010
Forty five years ago the South African Springboks toured New Zealand. The son of one of those players contacted Hadyn Green asking for help. Both of them ended up with a lot more than they expected.
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Submitted by: Hadyn Green | Categories: Rugby, Features
23 February, 2010
A look at bowling as a social pastime and how it relates to the people who play it. The comfort of the game, the sounds and how it really isn't cool, but nobody minds.
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Submitted by: Hadyn Green | Categories: Roller Derby, Recreation, Features
13 February, 2010
Interview with Miriam Ramos, of Wellington-based ornamental craft label My Mexican Heart. Ramos speaks on her indigenous roots, her art and being a mother.
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Submitted by: Shasha Ali | Categories: Features
