India has 600 million people under 25 and a burgeoning consumer society. How are brands courting these people? Monocle visits Mumbai’s advertising agencies to witness an atmosphere as heady as New York or London in their…
Tuesday 24 April
Japan’s tsunami-triggered nuclear alert has had particular resonance in India, where nuclear power has been widely embraced as an efficient way to meet the country’s leaping energy demand.
Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang's motorcade and India's embrace of ID cards
How the citizens of Phnom Penh can expect to stay dry next monsoon, plus India's plans to put people in space and Indonesia's ambitions to become a green-transport pioneer.
Chine beefs up its air force again, and India builds a strike force to ready itself for Himalayan border disputes.
The downfall of Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi in late 2011 had unforeseen consequences: thousands of Tuareg fighters employed by Gaddafi returned to their native Mali, adding considerable steel to a separatist movement in the…
Thursday 21 July
With global retailers turning the screws and consumers demanding more choice, the Indian government is finally considering removing restrictions on supermarket chains.
Protecting Yangon's architecture, tackling illegal mining in Goa, and understanding seismic activity in Taiwan.
Trouble in the Indian Ocean, India modernises its military, and sales of South Korea's jets experience lift off.
Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari and his highly armoured motorcade, green cities in Japan, and an interview with India's chief economic adviser.
A new multipurpose "port complex" in South Korea, an election in Mongolia and new divorce laws in India.
Beirut apartments, South Korean villages and a silk rethink in India.
Outsourcing has a bad name – a way of cutting labour costs by employing people in India and China (over three million US jobs will be lost to this trend by 2015). But there’s also a growing move for nations to outsource…
Dutch courage in Afghanistan, instability in Nepal and India's homegrown fighter jets.
Across the world there are people who are literally being John Malkovich. Or Homer Simpson or Paris Hilton. And in their home nations the voices of dubbing artists are more famous than those of their Hollywood counterparts…
Mint freshens up India's newspaper market and how to get ahed in Japanese advertising.
Wednesday 24 February
The prospect of India’s first on-screen gay liaison has made foreign media outlets hot under the collar but it is proving to be a different story on the sub-continent.
Sunday 18 April
From the baking plains of the Deccan Plateau to the boardrooms of Mumbai, everyone is keeping a weather eye on India’s skies as the annual monsoon approaches.
Wednesday 20 January
For generations, India has intrigued foreign and local writers lured by its rich culture, diversity and multitude of stories to be told.
Work on a new motorway to drastically improve the Phillipines' infrastructure gets underway, tree planting takes off in China to combat desertification and Kabul to educate the population on conservation, while India's…
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