The latest military shenanigans, including China's reassurances to the US and a Korean-led jet project.

Building bridges in China and why you should be nice to your mum.

A new multipurpose "port complex" in South Korea, an election in Mongolia and new divorce laws in India.

Singapore has felt the wrath of two neighbours already this year. Indonesia banned exports of construction sand claiming it was concerned about environmental damage (perhaps coincidentally, the two countries are also in…

Why 2013 will be a year of economic and political uncertainty in Asia, and the politician Jakarta has high hopes for.

Surin Pitsuwan, Hanna Anbar and Mark Leonard give their views.

New flights from Tokyo to Yangon, why the French are lighting up Cambodia, and Japan gets creative.

When Monocle published a lighthearted idea encouraging Brazil, Sweden and Turkey to work together, its message reached their capitals. We brought together the three foreign ministers for this issue’s round table series.

How do you persuade a Somali pirate to release his hostages or rebel kidnappers to let their abductees go? We meet the negotiators out to fix the world in 2011.

The semiotics of President Ahmadinejad's wardrobe, plus the high seas of Indonesian piracy.

Monocle's third annual Soft Power Survey is an attempt to push the debate on where soft power comes from and how to use it. With current shifts in the global power balance, never has it been more relevant.