Business / Politics
Business Briefing
American cigars, Japanese micro sites and innovative Irish forest technology
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The Entrepreneurs, episode 61
We head to Cairo to test out a new service willing to run any errand, big or small, find out what it takes to become a successful nightclub boss in São Paulo and light up with brothers running the only cigar-making business…
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Friday 5 April
For the love of money
As the idea of 'virtual currency' gains popularity, let's imagine what the world would be like without the real thing.
Affairs / Automotive
Monocolumn
Thursday 13 September
Sporting greats aren’t always on the track
Professor Sid Watkins, who died on Wednesday evening at the age of 84, unified Formula 1 motor racing.
Affairs / Government
Monocolumn
Monday 16 November
The Boyko Borisov show
The professional CV of the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov does not read like your standard head of government: firefighter, private security company owner, black belt in karate, trainer of the national karate team…
Affairs / Society
Briefing Africa/Middle East
The high life on Harare's millionaires' row.
Edits / Retail
Inventory No. 7
Shopping trips to Marunouchi usually leave us laden with bags and gasping for refreshment. We now have a new venue to rest our weary heads – or at least imbibe a reviving cocktail. Glowing like a lantern, the new Peninsula…
Affairs / Politics
Americas Briefing
Style leader Raúl Castro, South American coffee consumption and London-based US politicians.
Business / Technology
Balmy army
Guam’s population will increase by almost half in 2014 when the US military relocates to this tropical paradise from Japan’s Okinawa. It’s a milestone in the island’s history and a development boom is under way.
Edits / Food & Drink
Flemish flair
Monocle samples the Belgian city’s top food and drink haunts with a renowned local wine expert.
Affairs / Politics
Americas briefing
The rise of the left in Bogotá, Obama stirs up controversy over Cuba, and rebuilding a Chilean icon.
Design / Retail
Man of the moment
While the Milan menswear shows make the press, the real business is done at the Pitti Immagine Uomo menswear show in Florence. *Monocle* was there to see the designs that won deals and fill its fantasy wardrobe.
Edits / Retail
Inventory No. 50
This month our wishlist includes traditionally made soaps from Lebanon, classic kitchenware from the UK and brilliantly functional bags from Sweden.
Business / Small Business
Business briefing
China heads to Australia on the hunt for arable land and Germany goes back to boat-building basics.
Business / Transport
Floating a new idea
Consigned to the history books as a non-viable form of transport and now more commonly seen used by film baddies, the airship is finally being reinvented for the eco generation. British firm Hybrid Air Vehicles is creating…
Business / Business Hubs
Maltese crossing
Malta, the Mediterranean island with a population of 400,000, is booming thanks to EU membership and its adoption of the euro. It’s also perfectly poised to exploit renewed trade with Gaddafi’s Libya.
Culture / Sport
Ahead of the game
The sports writer has a tough job. Crafting a story that’s more than mere results reporting takes toil – especially when sports players are often famously ineloquent. And then there are the deadlines.
Business / Retail
Weapons of mass attraction
Modern warfare is not simply divided between conventional and nuclear, guerrilla or acts of terrorism. It’s a complicated mix of all these and more. But what to buy to defend yourself? Every two years, defence firms gather…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Let's talk about this
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.
Edits / Food & Drink
Back to the grind
Around the world a new generation of coffee shops are becoming community players. We meet the baristas who make their ’hoods and get their urban picks.