Design / Emerging Markets
Simple pleasures
A young Swiss electronics company has a plan to corner the low-tech market with a range of no-fuss, well-made products that just do the job.
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Business / Health
Flying patients
Consumers are increasingly looking beyond their native borders for low-cost, quality healthcare – and if there’s a safari thrown into the package, all the better. Monocle looks at the global hotspots attracting patients…
Business / Small Business
Swell guys
British microbrand Finisterre has introduced some blue-sea thinking into a global surfwear market that’s worth around €9bn a year. It produces just six high-tech, low-impact garments and when the surf’s up, the team grab…
Business / Business Hubs
Space to Grow
Bremen has always been an independent, outward-looking city, but that didn’t help it when the port’s traditional shipbuilding trade went into decline. Now the city has reinvented itself as a hi-tech hub. With low rents, a…
Business / Technology
Monocolumn
Friday 1 February
Europe’s comfort zone
The ease of getting projects off the ground in Berlin might start to attract economic dead weight.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Thursday 19 August
Better the devil you know – sort of?
When the UK got its first female prime minister she was in power for 11 years; now that Australia has followed suit with Julia Gillard 21 years later, her reign may only last a meagre two months.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Monday 13 May
The temptations of Tokyo
Technical innovation, artistic acumen and an improving economy: it's a good time to think about setting up home in Japan.
Business / Technology
Monocolumn
Friday 16 April
Outwardly mobile – Japan makes an international call
One is a remote archipelago with its own eco-system.
Affairs / Technology
Monocolumn
Monday 7 June
Steve Jobs feels the pressure to perform
Steve Jobs is a showman. Instead of verbose PowerPoint slides – industry standard in the tech world – his presentations are known for screens with so few words on them that they’re almost terse.
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 February
It’s back to the 80s with massive state sell-off
After spending much of his first term taking a cautious approach, New Zealand prime minister John Key has finally raised a very unpopular idea indeed.
Affairs / Economics
Monocolumn
Saturday 20 November
Why Irish eyes should look to Iceland
It’s a good thing for Ireland’s bankers that Reykjavik is just a short hop across the chilly North Atlantic from Dublin.
Affairs / Soft Power
Monocolumn
Tuesday 19 January
Energy required at head of renewables club
In the seven-starred splendour of Abu Dhabi’s Emirates Palace hotel, Hélène Pelosse manages to look both exhausted and pleased as punch.
Business / Industry
Flag flyers
Poland’s cluster of aviation companies balances local expertise with heavy foreign investment. Monocle flew in to see the collaboration.
Business / Urbanism
Second life
While post-industrial towns such as Detroit languish in a ‘rust belt’, Pittsburgh is bucking the trend, teeing itself up as a major hi-tech hub and an alternative to California’s Silicon Valley. Monocle visits its thriving…
Design / Architecture
Ship shape
Milanese architect Claudio Dini was handed a brief to create a residence with a maritime feel, without going overboard on the nautical theme, so that the occupants could feel all at sea in their city dwelling.
Affairs / Politics
Asia Briefing
Protecting Yangon's architecture, tackling illegal mining in Goa, and understanding seismic activity in Taiwan.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Oceania Briefing
Tuvalu's internet cash-in, NZ reviews its carbon-trading scheme, and Fiji's growing isolationism.
Affairs / Urbanism
The power of five
Not everyone’s favourite place can be included in Monocle’s top 25 destinations. But we’ve made a little room for five cities close to our editors’ hearts. From tech hubs to design capitals, you’ll be hearing more from…
Business / Investments
Business Briefing
A Canadian coffee shop in Kandahar, Chinese internet junkies go cold Turkey, and Jordan gets wired.