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  Oceania Briefing

  

  Issue 33

  Lawn bowls undergoes a youth revolution in Australia, and New Zealand finally dumps a confusing traffic law.

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  Expo 21: Trading places

  

  Issue 21

  Syria is moving away from the staunch socialist principles that dominated the country for decades. President Bashar al Assad has created a new merchant class and forged business links with neighbour Turkey. Nowhere has…

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  Affairs / Society

  Africa/Middle East Briefing

  

  Issue 38

  Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan is this month's Style Leader, and we report on why London's iconic black cabs have started cropping up in Cairo.

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  Affairs / Society

  Little Britain

  

  Issue 21

  For the first in a new series on outposts of opportunity we visit Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, the British territory best known for sheep and its 1982 war with Argentina. Now oil and tourists are making this…

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  Evolution theory

  

  Issue 51

  There’s more to Darwin than cyclones and crocodiles. A young population, a gas deal, a vibrant Asian culture and now a base for US Marines are changing its outback image.

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  Affairs / Society

  Oceania Briefing

  

  Issue 52

  The foreign land ownership debate in New Zealand, Cuba's bid to send doctors Oceania-way and Tonga finally gets connected to the rest of the world.

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  Asia briefing

  

  Issue 21

  North Korea's election (no great surprises expected), Malaysia's big river clean-up, and mixed feelings over Tokyo's plans to spruce up the Kabukicho district

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  Affairs / Society

  Over the horizon

  Issue 49

  Monocle’s editors, writers and correspondents look ahead to 2012 and beyond.

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  State of despair

  

  Issue 10

  Life expectancy in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe is 34 for women and 37 for men. Inflation is out of control; food, water and fuel are in short supply and corruption is rife. Elections are planned for March, but no one thinks…

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  Affairs / Society

  Boring is banished

  

  Issue 61

  The sterotypes no longer apply to Germany: both culturally and economically the country is home to fresh ideas and exciting developments. It’s time for the world, and Germans, to embrace a new future.

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  Affairs / Society

  Mittel class

  

  Issue 51

  Hungary has become the bête noir of Europe as fears grow that its government has a rather loose grasp of democracy. It shouldn’t be like this. The country has the talent and heritage to sell Brand Magyar to the world.

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  Our heroes

  

  Issue 29

  Welcome to Monocle’s annual round-up of 20 people who we think deserve a bigger stage. We cover diverse professions from shoe designers to politicians because we believe it’s not only the grand scale that matters, but the…

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