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  Let's look at plan B

  Issue 40

  Struggling nations and cities need to hitch up their skirts, quicken their step and just get on with it. Our editor-in-chief follows up the debates stirred up in this issue.

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  Oceania briefing

  Issue 7

  Eighteen months ago, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao had a vision: “I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, [with] sufficient milk each day,” he said. And in New Zealand, where serving children copious…

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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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  Affairs / Politics

  War on truth

  

  Issue 17

  During the conflict in South Ossetia, western media were given free access by the Georgian government, while on the Russian side, foreign journalists were being either arrested or herded around by the military. In both…

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  Daddy's girl

  

  Issue 38

  Keiko Sofía Fujimori was Peru’s first lady at age 19 – appointed by her father, the then-president. Now 35, she is standing for the top job herself, while her father is in jail charged with corruption. Can she win over the…

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  Defence Briefing

  

  Issue 54

  Squabbling over islands in the South China Sea, shopping for warships with Algeria, and boosting the Bangladeshi military.

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  Defence Briefing

  

  Issue 48

  Chine beefs up its air force again, and India builds a strike force to ready itself for Himalayan border disputes.

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  Americas Briefing

  

  Issue 44

  We examine Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff's image makeover, report on Qatar's investment in the US property market and bring you the view from Bogotá.

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  Oceania briefing

  

  Issue 17

  Australia tackles tax evasion on Vanuatu, New Zealand uses music to fight antisocial behaviour and the tiny state of Timor-Leste gets its own airline.

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  Affairs / Politics

  Oceania briefing

  Issue 1

  Plans for lunar heritage sites and a cure for the blues from Australia.

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  Happy now?

  

  Issue 28

  The nation that had no TV until 10 years ago and is famous for using its Gross National Happiness index as a measure of success rather than GDP, has been a democracy for just over a year. Monocle talks to its prime minister…

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  Karachi cops

  

  Issue 24

  As the Taliban gains ground in Pakistan, the police can offer little in defence of the nation. Monocle spends a day with Karachi’s police chief as he worries about kit, corruption and crime stats. Then we meet the woman…

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