Edits / Food & Drink
Prêt à manger
Fashion designer Jean Touitou enjoys good food and eating in down-to-earth settings. For his ‘last meal’ he has chosen Maisen, a tonkatsu restaurant on a quiet back street in Tokyo’s Jingumae district.
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Business / Aviation
Briefing business
Why fixing planes is better than flying them, why investors dig the student life and posh pawn gets the pulses racing in the US.
Design / Environment
Design/Architecture Briefing
A reworked Chinese trishaw and a Russian "sleep box" are some of the new products on the radar this month.
Edits / Travel
Expo 45: Rome
Rome’s citizens will tell you that too many things just don’t work in their city. But it still maintains an enviable quality of life with its markets, piazzas and architectural surprises.
Business / Industry
Timber land
Lumberjacks are finding themselves at the forefront of the climate change debate as ‘biomass’ (that’s burning wood chips to you and me) becomes a buzzword for the environmental movement. Monocle visited one of the largest…
Affairs / Politics
Europe briefing
Russians promise to stub out the smoking habit, getting high in Stockholm, and bridging a great divide in Germany.
Culture / Newspapers
New woman
Unlike many other Russian dissidents, veteran broadcaster Irena Lesnevskaya has never considered emigration and, as editor-in-chief since 2007 of opposition weekly news magazine The New Times, has dared to speak out against…
Design / Manufacturing
Viva riva
Riva may be one of the most respected brands afloat but as recently as 1999 it was sinking. Now with new owners at the helm, the brand is hoping to become the Riviera’s runabout of choice.
Business / Industry
Business briefing
Smuggling in Mali, locking up in Singapore, film-making in Mauritius and other business news.
Affairs / Government
Asia Briefing
The view from Kabul, the Taiwanese president's modest motorcade and health insurance for Tibetan monks.
Business / Small Business
Comeback Kids
What do a textiles business in Japan, a UK shoemaker, a fashion firm in Italy and a publishing company in Lebanon have in common? They are all examples of brands whose obituaries had been written until new life was breathed…
Culture / Media
Pack leaders
A photographer, a war artist, Sky News’ special correspondent and a writer for ‘The New Yorker’ reveal what kit they take with them to the world’s conflict zones and how they work. Among the essential bulletproof jackets…
Affairs / Food & Drink
Eat and be wary
Strung out across Southeast Asia is a chain of restaurants where doll-like North Korean waitresses sing to diners as they sample the country’s cuisine (well, what’s left of it). Is it a benign culinary business foray or…
Affairs / Defence
Duty and the beast
Never work with animals is a mantra in TV but exotic, domestic and native beasts have been employed to work in conflicts around the world with mixed consequences. Take a walk on the wild side with Monocle.
Affairs / Urbanism
Looking for a plan
What happens when urban planning goes wrong? The answer is Dongguan, a metropolis hastily erected on the back of a 1980s economic boom. With poor transport and half-empty shopping centres, life is a struggle. But authori…
Culture / Magazines
Waxing lyrical
João Moreira Salles is the publisher of *Piauí*, a new monthly magazine in Brazil. With his brother and business partner Walter, he is half of the well-regarded Salles brothers film-making team. *Monocle* visited João in…
Culture / Media
Match point
‘Paris Match’ scores regular exclusives thanks to an army of reporters and photographers who mix celebrity with hard-edged news. Monocle meets the Paris-based team.
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…