Friday 21 May
At Raffles Place station, one stop from Singapore’s new Marina Bay Sands casino, there is a warning painted onto the platform, next to a thick red line. But instead of the “mind the gap” you might expect, it urges you to…
The Uzbek social princess-cum-diplomat who is also a style Leader, clean living in Sweden, Why the Swiss love their guns and Moscow eyes the Vegas lifestyle.
Tuesday 10 April
Many years ago, as a reckless youth, I went into a local betting shop and put down a few pounds on the Grand National.
Analysis of Greece’s exit options from the euro, we look at the biggest aviation stories of the week, and discuss Barack Obama’s gay marriage gamble.
Overhauling a business can go two ways: it either backfires badly – BA and Coca-Cola know how that feels – or it radically improves profits. Monocle meets 10 businesses taking the gamble and suggests 10 industries in need…
Everyone from parents to President Putin is attacking the vending and amusement machine industry. As the key players gathered in Europe to launch a counter attack, we were there to see if all their cherries would come up…
Japanese mobile phone "sommeliers", plus the ghost tower of Bangkok.
Wednesday 15 February
A design hotel in Davos recently claimed to have the world’s first fully automated check in, seemingly with some pride.
Tuesday 23 April
The games available on smartphones and tablets can drive a daily commuter in Hong Kong to distraction.
National identity in Australia, Tonga and Fiji's territorial dispute and rugby World Cup headache in New Zealand.
Wednesday 21 November
Greetings: they can be difficult things to get right. I can’t have been the only person to view the front-page photos of Barack Obama’s recent meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma with a mix of fascination and fully…
Singapore's wheel of fortune and South Korea's big game plan.
Protecting Yangon's architecture, tackling illegal mining in Goa, and understanding seismic activity in Taiwan.
Native American tribes in the US and Canada have become powerful business and political forces and have learnt how to get Obama and Ottawa on their side. Monocle meets the chiefs leading the renaissance.
Åland, an archipelago in Scandinavia, is hailed as a model for how to create a harmonious “nation” – without giving it full independence – academics and politicians even studied it as a model for Kosovo. The prosperous…
Monday 22 February
In the run-up to the Vancouver-Whistler Winter Olympics, much of the talk was about the lengths to which organisers were going to stage-manage the image of both these games and the host city itself.
We investigate Canadian PM Stephen Harper's motorcade, the US's paranoia in the wake of WikiLeaks and America's first government-owned casino.
At any time in history there are countries on the way in or out – breakaway states eager for independence or now clamouring to be reassimilated into their former motherlands. This is the current crop of nations in waiting…
Australia's tough stance on climate change, and why the Chinese are putting their money on Samoa.
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