Set up nearly four years ago by three engineering graduates, Aptomar is one of the many innovative young start-ups thriving in Trondheim, the tech capital of Norway. The firm’s latest maritime navigation equipment is not…
As Monocle notches up two years, we take a look back at where we started and unveil some subtle tweaks to our brand for volume 03. We’ve always celebrated small businesses that manufacture at home and in an ever-more hom…
Sunday 27 May
There’s a letter I tend to get from Monocle’s listeners and readers whenever we run a story that mentions kidnaps, murders or drugs in Mexico.
Friday 27 August
Anyone outside Washington, DC, would think that mayor Adrian Fenty is a hero in his hometown.
Canada’s far north used to be too cold and inhospitable for anyone to survive there except the Inuit people. But global warming is clearing the snows and luring in a generation of ambitious speculators after oil, diamonds…
Taking home-cooking to Singaporeans, tying the knot in Cyprus, making kangaroo-hide sneakers Down Under, and other business news and happenings.
Friday 31 December
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.
Wednesday 9 November
The open mic gaffe is a phenomenon far less interesting than the reaction to it.
We hear about the the far right in Germany, learn of a political power struggle in Papua New Guinea, and reflect on the Arab Spring.
Whoever ends up sat in the Oval Office come January next year will have a huge job on his hands but also a massive opportunity. Here is Monocle’s advice.
Thursday 17 June
Even the most far-sighted fashion fans would have to concede that Chile is decidedly off the typical style map.
Thursday 24 September
On October 14 in the Turkish town of Bursa, a World Cup football qualifier match there could have consequences far beyond the pitch.
Saturday 5 November
“It’s so far away.” I’m in Australia for the first time and this was all most people could muster in response back in the UK when I told them about my impending trip.
On this special Christmas edition of The Entrepreneurs, we discover a Roman business finding inspiration from rummaging through the past, and head to Warsaw to meet three entrepreneurs using an abandoned factory to create…
Saturday 22 January
The landslides and floods that tore through the mountains surrounding Rio de Janeiro on 12 January have so far claimed at least 762 lives.
On deployment far from its home port of San Diego, the diminutive USS Freedom carries far greater weight than its size suggests: as the apex of US naval technology, its success or failure will decide the future of American…
Claus Krohn, the 77-year-old founder of Krohn Air in Norway, is far from retiring from the skies.
There’s now a more reliable and affordable way to get between Russia’s far-flung regional capitals – a zippy Swiss Air taxi.
Creative industries and individuals from near and far are flocking to the renovated factories and warehouses of Collingwood.
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