Thursday 30 December
It’s been a rough 100 years for one of Asia’s pioneering democracies, but the Taiwanese are commemorating their centennial birthday with a “little-country-that-could” mindset.
Sunday 6 March
“The Road to Mandalay”, the song that helped romanticise Burma’s one-time imperial capital, glosses over the fact the that the road in question – less poetically known as Highway Number 1 – has always been dangerously…
Tuesday 11 October
Had anybody from Guwahati in Assam wished to travel to Delhi 15 years ago, they would have had only two affordable options: take a 27-hour train, or stay at home.
Monday 23 August
Turkey has nearly a year to go before it holds elections, but one outcome seems certain: the country’s next prime minister will wear a moustache.
Saturday 21 August
Do a Google image search for “Ethiopia” most days and, three or four pictures in, you’re faced with the image that, if you’re honest, you probably associate most with the place: skeletal child, starving to death, swarmed…
Friday 16 April
One is a remote archipelago with its own eco-system.
*Monocle* asked three influential economists for their predictions for 2008: Christian Gattiker-Ericsson, head of equity and strategy research at Bank Julius Baer, sees more pressure for economies reliant on ageing workf…
Psychotherapy vouchers for French workers, an interview with Iceland's "minister of ideas", and why renewables are an attractive investment in hard times.
Monday 30 November
It’s the battle of the billboards. As you head for Kiev’s city centre – whichever approach you take – they line the road at what appear to be rapidly decreasing intervals.
Friday 18 June
No matter what you build on the waterfront of Sydney Harbour these days, chances are it won’t be liked.
Sunday 4 July
Never mind politics and sex. There are two words that are infinitely more taboo when spoken in the confines of a Japanese office: “paternity” and “leave”.
Sunday 2 January
It was not just the news itself, but the sickening familiarity of it all: a Japanese bus station in the morning rush hour, buses jammed with passengers and a 27-year-old man with a knife.
The winds of fortune had been both kind and cruel to family-run business Maruni Wood Industry over the years. Then one member of the clan reluctantly went back to his roots – only to discover he was the natural saviour of…
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Iceland's healthy take on the pharmacy, a playful kindergarten in Germany, making Hay in Copenhagen and the sharpest knives in the box.
Making tortoiseshell glasses by hand is a rare and exacting skill. One of the last practitioners, Maison Bonnet, is making sure the art survives, thanks to its keen young apprentice.
Tapping into renewable energy in the Rift Valley, military news, and trouble for the US Navy's submarines.
Despite over 30 years in Australia’s public health sector, Greg Rochford experienced some turbulence when he became CEO of the country’s iconic Royal Flying Doctor Service. One year on, he’s gaining altitude.
Chinese eco-cities, what the Pharoahs can teach us about climate change, and the battle between business and environmentalists over vast oil reserves in Canada.
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