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Contaminated food for millions of Japanese office workers every day
Yoshinoya may not be a familiar name in New Zealand, but in Japan it is as familiar as McDonalds with its bulls-horn logo punching into the sky and its staff putting lunch on the table for millions of...
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Exhibition tells us where we’ve been
Toi AotearoaAuckland Art GalleryFree entryRuns until December 31, 2013Review by Steve Bolton Tony Fomison’s Nga Toki Mate Whenua - Axes Felling Trees, Kills the Land 1983, oil on hessian. Image:...
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Transport improvement plan could get Shore moving again
Improvements to Shore transport mean getting out and about could be less about finding a car park and more about doing the things you wanted to do in the first place. Chris Darby is all-for the Shore...
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Generation Zero ranking mayoral candidates on key policies
Generation Zero gives the 2013 Auckland Mayoral candidates a final grading. Illustration: Stephen Bolton Just like any other spotty, adolescent city, Auckland has growing...
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igovt gets real
The strangest thing about RealMe is that it isn’t the real you at all, but your electronic facsimile – out there in the digital world. Taxpayers can opt-in so their information can be shared between...
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Livable city slipping out of reach for lowest paid
There are countless ways to go broke but one of the surest is the death-by-a-thousand-cuts that is the minimum wage. There are 41,300 people working for minimum wage in New Zealand earning $13.75 an...
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Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired?
Revive cafe in Lorne Street serves up good gluten-free food. Photo: Steve Bolton This week is Coeliac Awareness Week. It might be hard to spell but it is a good thing to know about. Coeliac disease is...
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Diners find thief sitting in the driver’s seat of their car
Police are searching for a man who stole a Toyota RAV4 car during a violent confrontation with two men in Epsom last week. The scene of the crime on the corner of Manukau Road and King Edward Avenue....
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Mighty river or muddy puddle?
All New Zealanders were entitled to invest in Mighty River Power. But after a turbulent public offer period which saw Labour and the Greens outflank the Government with a radical power policy, how many...
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From rosewoods to natives – the journey of a NZ luthier
One afternoon, after playing live in Radio New Zealand’s Auckland studio, Don McGlashan was handed a phone. On the other end, calling from the other end of the country, was Otago-based luthier Ian...
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Mental health guidelines on language attempt to reduce stigma
The Mental Health Foundation’s updated language guidelines aim to reduce the stigma of mental illness by removing some of the less helpful terms used to describe it. The guidelines have evolved over a...
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Grand old lady seeks $90,000 for digital switchover
The digital switchover was never going to be cheap but when you’re a 100-year-old cinema with a bill for $90,000, you’re going to need to do more than a sausage sizzle. Victoria Cinema manager Philipp...
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Sand man lights up the show
What can you make with a handful of sand? Well, if you’re Marcus Winter you can make anything. Marcus Winter at work at the opening of the Sir Paul Reeves Building. Photo: Steve Bolton After the...
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Half a million fewer Kiwi smokers, thanks to Quitline
In the 14 years since Quitline first started in New Zealand, the service has helped more than 500,000 people stop smoking with a combination of counselling, nicotine replacement therapy (NTR), online...
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