Design / Manufacturing
Design republic
China makes cheap products to order. Could it ever make well-designed ones too? Monocle looks at the companies who think it can and are leading the way.
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Culture / Music
Culture briefing
Cheap and chic bicycle advertising, plus *Monocle*'s music recommendations.
Business / Emerging Markets
Into Africa
Tangier has a reputation for being a playground for pleasure seekers. But with the opening of a new port this summer, the city is set to become a key business centre. Just a short ferry ride from Europe, staff costs are low…
Midori House, episode 178
The latest from Kiev’s protests, we speak to author Elizabeth Cline about the real cost of cheap clothes, and we reminisce about sore political losers.
End Point / Radio
Observation
Rolling news is a euphemism for cheap reporting, drama over content and daft presenters. Tyler Brûlé knows the solution
Business / Investments
Business Briefing
Canadians go south for cheap flights, Shanghai gets virtual supermarkets in its subways, plus Melbourne's laneways get some investment.
Affairs / Politics
Africa/Middle East Briefing
Israel's glut of lawyers, the South Africans taking a stand against cheap imported clothes, and preparations for elections in the Central African Republic.
Business / Food & Drink
Make some dough
Pizza has long been heralded as a cheap, all-American staple. But delegates at Las Vegas’s International Pizza Expo were also witness to a booming artisanal pizza trend – and some dough tossers to boot.
Business / Emerging Markets
The Full Monte
In Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, multinational companies are setting up shop, ports are being built to serve the forestry industry and property is going cheap. All the city needs now is a new generation of global…
Edits / Craft
Abel García López
Nestled in a chilly valley between wooded volcanoes is the guitar-making capital of Mexico. While many in Paracho battle to survive against a flood of cheap Chinese imports, a few are drawing on generations of knowledge to…
Business
Buenos Aires
There are two Buenos Aires: one is the traditional, with the tango nights and classical concerts at The Teatro Colón. Another is the home to some of the best and trendiest restaurants, bars and shops. Since the economic…
Affairs / Politics
Asia briefing
Chinese contemporary artist Yue Minjun may command millions for his paintings overseas but at home he is dogged by a growing trade in cheap copies of his work. While Microsoft, Louis Vuitton and Hollywood studios have been…
Culture / Television
Nordic News Network
In a bid to lure fickle advertisers and demanding audiences, TV news has become increasingly bland and banal. And so too have the stations' studios. Everything looks so cheap and dull. That's why we've been playing fantasy…
Edits / Retail
Monocolumn
Friday 23 March
Time to de-clutter
There’s a shop near me in London called Poundland. It does what it says on the tin, offering a plethora of plastic for one hundred pennies or less.
Culture / Books
Monocolumn
Saturday 8 January
F Scott Fitzgerald up for grabs
He is unlikely to feature in literary forecasts for 2011, but F Scott Fitzgerald is set for a bumper year. On 1 January, 70 years after his death, he passed the all-important milestone in any creative career – the copyright…
Business / Luxury
Monocolumn
Sunday 15 July
Quality not quantity
Luxury is a good thing. There, I’ve said it. I know in these straightened times it gets a bad rap – who, people ask, really needs a sleek high-end car, a bag made by artisans in an Italian village or champagne at their…
Business / Automotive
Monocolumn
Friday 27 November
Car makers race into India
Cross an Indian street and it probably won’t be news to you that car sales on the Subcontinent are booming here.
Affairs / Arts
Monocolumn
Friday 31 December
Forecast 2011: Far from doom and gloom in London's art world
Stage plays ending their run ahead of time; the death of the UK Film Council; part one of a four-year plan to slash the Arts Council’s budgets by a third: 2011 isn’t set to be the best of years for culture in London.
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Friday 1 January
2010: Using their noodle
If the increase in young-chef driven “boutique” ramen stores around Tokyo is any indication, 2010 is going to be a good year for ramen noodles.