Wednesday 19 May
How do you name a nation? The southern part of Sudan is set to become the world’s newest country when people there vote on independence in a referendum scheduled for January.
Tuesday 5 January
Dubai opened the world’s tallest skyscraper yesterday – with the surprise announcement that the glistening structure had been renamed Burj Khalifa, after Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, leader of Abu Dhabi.
Tuesday 6 December
In Finland there are Ridges, Brookes and Frodos, all queuing to get their names changed at the local registry offices.
Thursday 10 February
The UN’s new agency – UN Women – is slowly cranking into gear. But while it has a shiny new logo, it still lacks proper funding.
How to choose yourself a Swedish name and a fishy story from Moscow.
Tuesday 21 August
Wars have often turned jobbing journalists into household names and given them a heroic lustre in the process.
How US clothing brands are tailoring for the Chinese market, plus Finnish naming trends and we check out Hong Kong’s Business of Design Week.
Sunday 28 February
Besieged in a tiny corner of one of the world’s most dangerous capital cities, peppered with sniper and rocket fire, a few thousand Burundian and Ugandan troops are protecting a rickety transitional government against…
Thursday 8 April
There are many things that have helped provoke the violent revolution in Kyrgyzstan this week: extreme poverty, financial crisis and possibly a nudge from Moscow, to name just a few.
We examine the killing of Pakistani extremist Mullah Nazir in a US drone strike, look at press freedom in Bahrain, and find out why Iceland is so strict about what people are named.
Wednesday 10 November
It looked as though China stepped up the game to challenge the US, or at least US space-supremacy, at the end of last month when it launched another satellite in its second-generation Compass Navigation Satellite System …
After the surrender of wanted war criminal Bosco Ntaganda, we ask what are the next steps? We also look at China's access to Arctic shipping routes, and hear from San Francisco about plans to rename a street presently named…
Tuesday 28 February
The first mobile phone I had was the Nokia Brick. It had a proper name, I’m sure, but that’s how I remember it.
Pakistan says thank you with mangoes, Lithuania gets into a sticky spot over street names, and Monocle heads to Hanoi to meet the Palestinian ambassador to Vietnam.
Keeping the wheels of war turning requires well-run businesses. Some of the world’s most recognisable household brand names have pushed ahead in the fields of technology and innovation by supplying new products to the…
Big-name French pharma was conspicuously absent at this year’s annual Pharmagora fair. But far from fading into obscurity, the Paris show has been looking to Francophone African markets and the lucrative bio-organic sector…
Baselworld is the biggest event on the watchmaking calendar, attracting leading players and emerging names from the world of timekeeping. Monocle drops in to preview the latest horological finery.
Monday 1 August
At some point before midnight, Barack Obama will likely put his name to an austerity plan passed last night by Congress, with just hours to spare before the United States reaches its borrowing limit, a deadline that would…
We look at the reasons for the skyrocketing cost of the most expensive winter Olympic Games ever, get the latest business and luxury news, and look at whether Heathrow airport’s plans to name and shame the noisiest airline…
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