Thursday 2 June
Flip on the television in China this month and you might wonder if some networks have slipped back to the Little Red Book-waving days of the late 1960s. On 1 July, it’s the 90th anniversary of the founding of China’s Com…
Tuesday 4 January
In China, the mourning period for Twitter was as brief as a tweet. Only weeks after the government blocked the microblogging service in the summer of 2009, one of China’s leading web portals, Sina, unveiled a clone to take…
Tuesday 25 January
Iranian authorities are waging a war on love. Earlier this month their targets were heart-emblazoned materials promoting Valentine’s Day, a holiday increasingly popular among young Iranians who yearn for some of the basic…
Until now there has not been a dedicated, unbiased Farsi-speaking TV station broadcasting in Iran. That’s about to change with the launch of the BBC World Service’s Persian TV. It aims to put a new spin on the country and…
Wednesday 21 April
Last week, the Venezuelan government unveiled its latest initiative against the opposition media.
Hung Huang is the head of CIMG, perhaps China’s most sophisticated media brand. In just seven years she has spearheaded new TV, print and web media. Now she wants to forge a uniquely modern Chinese culture, in a country…
Raffaello Pantucci discusses the censorship of Weibo, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of London Underground transport, and check in with Monocle’s woman in Cape Town.
We ask whether China’s new censorship on social media is effecting its economy, and also visit Finland’s most famous department store, Stockmanns.
We check in with the industrial conflict in Marikana, discuss Burma’s decision to abolish censorship, and look at Israel’s media coverage of Iran’s nuclear aspirations.
Friday 15 January
“You can make money without doing evil,” proclaims Google’s corporate mission statement. Except in China, it might have added.
Tuesday 29 March
Some of the most influential cultural figures in the world were due to gather in Damascus next month to discuss the importance of cultural heritage.
Wednesday 29 December
The news bulletins on Russia’s sterile television networks, which are almost all run by or connected to the state, bear striking resemblance to Soviet-era newsreels, just with better looking presenters and slicker graphics…
Monday 10 May
When publicity announced that the film Sex and the City 2 (to be released in the UK and the US later this month) would feature the cast of New York fashionistas frolicking in Abu Dhabi, the news was met in the Middle East…
Friday 30 March
This weekend check out the art fair in Tokyo, catch an exhibition asking big questions in Monaco and lighten up with the new album from La Sera.
Monday 18 July
Firestorm over a Chinese actress’s homophobic microblog
South America's love of heavy metal, Brazil's Casa Triângulo art gallery and Al Jazeera launches in the Balkans.
Emilio Giannelli’s satirical cartoons on the front page of ‘Corriere della Sera’ unite the nation in laughter. He has become untouchable by Italy’s highly litigious politicians, including Silvio Berlusconi, who dare not…
We put Burma's president Thein Sein under the sartorial spotlight. We also find out why Taiwan is making more babies and get the latest on the Malaysian elections
Books, technology and a magazine on Chinese contemporary art. And an interview with the founder of Love Art.
Winds of change strike the gassy cattle of Australia and preaching to the converted in the Cook Islands.
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