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Midori House, episode 242
We preview the build-up to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney’s debate, analyse the Georgia Dream coalition’s victory, and Hugo Macdonald discusses Beijing Design Week.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 28 September
Party animals
Beijing will play host to an emphatic demonstration of China’s growing military power on Thursday when a panoply of new military hardware is unveiled at this year’s National Day parade, marking the 60th anniversary of the…
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 1 June
Weekend Agenda 01/02 June
This weekend enjoy some French surrealism in Beijing, the works of a Turkish master painter in Istanbul, and check out US musician Iron & Wine on tour throughout Europe.
Edits / Emerging Markets
Expo 11: Olympic gold rush
Beijing’s citizens are living under more than the legendary smog clouds. The world will be focused on China’s capital city this August, and, if all goes to the Communist Party’s plan, we will be overawed by the glittering…
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Friday 13 November
The space invasion
A top-secret military base in the mountains where Chinese technicians are building laser beams designed to render western satellites ineffective.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Saturday 9 October
China’s submarine technology creeps up on the West
China’s latest submarine was unveiled with little fanfare at a shipyard in Wuhan last month.
Affairs / Health
Monocolumn
Sunday 26 June
Sino-Indian rapprochement… through the medium of yoga
If further proof were needed of China’s boom, it was on display last week in a Guangzhou hall, sporting garish shades of locally branded lycra.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Monday 22 February
Cold comfort for Games hosts
In the run-up to the Vancouver-Whistler Winter Olympics, much of the talk was about the lengths to which organisers were going to stage-manage the image of both these games and the host city itself.
Design / Fashion
Fashion briefing
Monocle enjoys São Paulo fashion week Tomorrowland collaborates with Belgian designer Jean-Paul Knott, plus Prada platforms, Incotex trunks and Banana Republic comes to London.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Sunday 14 March
A higher plane
Taiwan remains 90 miles off the Chinese coast, but politically the island might just have shifted in the mainland’s direction.
Affairs / Transport
Europe Briefing
High-speed rail lines are in the pipeline for both the UK and Turkey, while a breath of fresh air is promised in the planned landscaped gardens of the redeveloped Le Forum des Halles, Paris.
End Point / Education
Observation
It’s back to school for Monocle and the new term is going to be busy. Monocle’s headmaster, Tyler Brûlé, reveals the new curriculum.
Design / Manufacturing
Settee slicker
B&B Italia is renowned for its curvaceous and audacious design. We dropped in to its hi-spec hideout near Milan to cast an eye over the craftsmanship that defines its globally expanding business.
Business / Innovation
Ideas to steal
Making the word’s busiest cities a little more ordered should be top of most urban planners to-do lists. And when one city strikes on an idea that works, it seems the rest of the globe is keen to catch up.
Affairs / Politics
Asia briefing
Imagine walking into a room bursting with not-yet-released products, from bath oils and bottled water to exercise machines and lipsticks. Now imagine being told to help yourself.
Affairs / Defence
Defence Briefing
The latest military shenanigans, including China's reassurances to the US and a Korean-led jet project.
Affairs / Politics
Briefing Americas
Peruvian extradition and a China-Taiwan tug of allies.
Edits / Travel
Eat, drink and be ferried
As part of our travel round-up in this issue we visit a restaurant in Madrid intent on promoting the unappreciated nuances of English food, a Chinese brewery educating locals in the delights of a glass of craft beer and a…
End Point / Society
Observation Issue 09
A perfect day: How often do you sit and plot what your perfect day would look and feel like? Do you try to imagine what sounds will wake you? Conjure up what smells will pull you out of bed? Do you think about what would…