Affairs / Environment
09 - Honolulu
Issue 5
The city has the luxury of sitting on Asia’s doorstep. This is great news but it needs to put it to use.
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Affairs / Small Business
Africa/Middle East Briefing
Issue 45
Beirut's first street atlas creates order out of chaos, Nairobi gets an airport "bush hotel" and Lagos motorists get some hi-tech help to avoid traffic.
Affairs / Technology
Serbia, Libya and internet gossip
Wednesday 6 April
Serbian pilots are “dive bombing” Libyan protesters and Serbian mercenaries are being paid tens of thousands of dollars to fight for Gaddafi. You have to have to pity the poor Serbs here.
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East Briefing
Issue 2
How Islam helped US capitalism in Somalia and why women in Saudi buy cars they can't drive.
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Affairs / Aviation
Standards for South America’s airlines are rising
Thursday 8 December
South America has become a great place to fly. This is a bit of a change.
Affairs / Society
Great mover
Issue 44
Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is a celebrity in Norway. A young pin-up for the game, he’s modelled for a denim label and, with his busy social life, is a far cry from the lonely child prodigy stereotype.
Affairs / Politics
Europe Briefing
Issue 40
The British Queen's motorcade, a European space ship, the first direct flights between Russia and Brazil and the Turkish prime minister's branding potential
Affairs / Media
Here be dragons
Wednesday 31 July
Spotted a sweating newspaper editor? Then it must be “Silly Season”: the summer sun is shining, sensible stories have dried up and column inches are flooded with nonsense.
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Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
Issue 34
New Zealanders' blasé attitude to living on top of a massive fault line, plus how Fiji's leader has dealt with his ex-convict brother-in-law - by appointing him to a top rugby position.
Affairs / Monocle
The Monocle Review
Editor-in-chief Tyler Brûlé presents the first edition of The Monocle Review. On this programme we highlight Narcotecture in Herat, a cosier version of Davos at Tällberg, a rock festival with a difference in Japan and a high-voltage tour of the Frankfurt Auto Show.
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East briefing
Issue 16
Syrian first lady Adma Al-Assad's outfits; wine-tasting classes for poor South Africans.
Affairs / Defence
A ticking time bomb
Monday 6 May
The atrocities in Syria might soon provoke the US into supplying arms to its rebel fighters but the same tactic in 1980s Afghanistan meant arms recipients soon turned against the hand that feeds.