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by Michelle King

Want to purchase a brand new clean green car but don’t want to leave the house? Trade me has the answer for you.

Trade Me New Zealand’s version of E-bay decided this week to enter the car market, only this time there is a bit of a twist.

The Trade Me motors site previously only sold used cars, bikes and boats. Read more

by Martin Hirst

Calling all bloggers:

An online campaign “Free Burma” has been organised to make a splash in the blogosphere in a couple of days time. The organisers are asking people to sign up and to post a pro-democracy item on their blog on the fourth of October in support of the Burmese people who have been protesting against the military junta. Over the past week tens of thousands of Burmese, including monks and ordinary workers have been on the streets. Hundreds have been killed. About 2000 university students are currently on hunger strike, their campus surrounded by heavily-armed soldiers.

If you want one good reason why you, as a journalism student, should support Free Burma day, read the story about Kenji Nagai.

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by Ranita Nand

I’m not much of an art fanatic, but when I first saw Sophia Minson’s paintings earlier this year they captured my attention almost instantly.

I was amazed at how elegant and smooth her paintings looked and what made her work even more interesting to me was the fact she is a young talented New Zealand artist, who graduated from AUT.

It’s obvious to tell by looking at her paintings that it comes from the soul and that she is truely passionate about her work as she puts so much detail into it. Read more

by Bex Appleton

Over the last week and a half the police has been criticised over proceedings in what the media refers to as the “Pumpkin Case”.

Published on the Herald website’s public opinion section, adjectives describing the performance of the New Zealand police include: absolutely atrocious. woeful, pathetic, pitiful, outrageous, alongside comments like someone needs their bottom kicked.

Time should not be wasted on comments like the above or questioning the length of time it took the police to obtain a warrant, conduct a search of Mr. Nai Yin Xue vehicle, and find the body of An An Liu (four days after Qian being found abandoned in Melbourne). Read more

By Shawn Ashley

Starring Matt Damon, Joan Allen, and Scott Glenn The Bourne Ultimatum is the third and final movie in the Bourne Identity trilogy.

The movie hit theaters in New Zealand on August 23^rd and since then it’s rocked the box offices.

According to the New Zealand Herald, in it’s first week it brought in over $900,000, which is more than both Die Hard 4 and The Simpsons Movie. Read more

by Jackie Tran Van

Whether you love it or hate it our national game will draw passion from within you.

The lead up was such that the hours until kick-off were counted down with precision by the media.

How has it come to be that our news programmes, the place we go to find credible reports of what’s happening in our country and the world, has become yet another avenue for rugby to saturate the nation? Read more

by Vy-wen-foo

“Did you hear a gunshot this morning?”

One has to admit, that is highly unusual for a Friday morning greeting, especially one from my apartment resident. Like many other city apartments, tenants hardly get to see each other, better yet – greet each other.

As I was dancing around in my sleep on Thursday night,  a gunshot was allegedly fired in our apartment around 4.30am.

The neighbour was rudely awakened from her sleep having to convince her partner that she distinctively heard a gunshot. Read more

by Jaheb Barnett

The way we are finding our bargains these days has changed. Big time.

Online shopping has moved in and kicked out traditional shopping – where you would walk into a store and browse using your legs and whatnot.

Now, in the online world, all you need is a comfy seat. Read more

by Rochelle Grace

Celebrities reinforce the constant reminder that we need to stay gorgeous, fitter and younger.

A way that some gyms around the world are trying to promote fitness and health is to open 24 hours a day.

This unique service has been introduced to get more people to use gyms, and have been doing so by catering to the needs of different lifestyles. Read more

by Justin Henehan

Being a rabid cyclo-fiend, I immediately noticed the small posters of scribbled bicycle outlines all around Auckland city’s library building.

I had a closer look and saw something that rang my bicycle bell: a week before a friend had sent me a Quicktime teaser for a bicycle messenger documentary.

That Sunday also happened to be the day an iconic cafe and long-time Auckland cycle courier hang-out was to close forever. Read more