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Asia Briefing— Asia
Preface
A new multipurpose "port complex" in South Korea, an election in Mongolia and new divorce laws in India.
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01Akihiko Tanaka
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02South Korean hotspot
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Africa/Middle East Briefing
Issue 32
Why leopard skins and white trainers are de rigueur for South African president Jacob Zuma, and the first stirrings of a spa revolution in Saudi Arabia.
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Americas Briefing
Issue 42
Style leader Raúl Castro, South American coffee consumption and London-based US politicians.
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Americas briefing
Issue 20
Our new column from Washington on President Obama's administration, plus baseball-mania in Nicaragua and the Dane who is making NYC more cycle-friendly.
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Asia Briefing
Issue 36
The image-savvy Dalai Lama is this month's style Leader, and we report on Russia's celebration of its Second World War victory over Japan.
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Europe Briefing
Issue 42
Alcohol tax in Turkey, election with Finland and Georgia's diplomacy love-in.
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Diplomacy Briefing
Issue 57
We meet Timor-Leste's man in Australia and bring you more dispatches from the diplomatic world.
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The verdict
Issue 8
On 6 November it will be six months since Nicolas Sarkozy was elected French President. We asked one of France’s most celebrated commentators to rate his performance both at home and abroad.
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Briefing Americas
Issue 3
Brazil's biofuel and Argentina's First Lady.
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Banana Republic
Issue 2
Ecuador used to be a loyal ally of the US, but now its new president Rafael Correa is cutting a very different course and even looking to Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez for political guidance. *Monocle* travelled there to meet the…
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Asia briefing
Issue 62
Cambodia keeps politics in the family, South Korea get equal, and Japan gets green vending machines
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Asia Briefing
Issue 32
How the citizens of Phnom Penh can expect to stay dry next monsoon, plus India's plans to put people in space and Indonesia's ambitions to become a green-transport pioneer.
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Africa/Middle East briefing
Issue 15
A Kenyan town gets a presidential boost, and will Emiratis ever use Dubai's new metro?