Japan has the fastest ageing population in the world, and businesses are quick to provide architect-designed care homes and grandchild robots for the elderly. Other nations need to take note of opportunities in this booming…
Monday 21 January
To coincide with Japan's Coming of Age Day, we ask how much Japanese youth have to celebrate.
The view from Kabul, the Taiwanese president's modest motorcade and health insurance for Tibetan monks.
The Malaysian PM's motorcade, Japan's special town for pensioners, and how the Haitian earthquake became a chance for Taiwan to make its mark.
The view from London after the recent riots, plus why Portugal wants more pensioners, and Switzerland's impending election.
Sunday 26 June
If further proof were needed of China’s boom, it was on display last week in a Guangzhou hall, sporting garish shades of locally branded lycra.
Monday 18 April
“The best thing about the New Hampshire primary is that anybody can run and anybody can win,” conservative activist Graham Bosse said last Friday at a Tea Party rally in Concord, as the first week of the 2012 election cycle…
Friday 17 December
Outside of Vatican City, Niue is the world’s least populous country, a self-governing Pacific nation with a headcount comparable to that of a large high school.
Friday 12 November
The model reclines on a camouflage pillow, a bandana tied casually around his neck above a red T-shirt with a white logo.
Sunday 2 May
As Gordon Brown blunders his way across Britain, party spin-doctors have called in Stephen Hopkins, director of the nail-biting television series 24, to take charge of election videos. But Labour should be looking to Hun…
Friday 2 April
When Kenneth Kaunda stepped down as president of Zambia in 1991 he did something no other African head of state had ever done before.
For a break from Bairro Alto take a trip to the salubrious neighbourhood of Príncipe Real. The shops along Rua Dom Pedro V sell specialist Portuguese products and new businesses are quick to move in. There’s also a park…
we peruse the shelves of the thriving, eclectic magazine shop Papercut in Stockholm.
Psychotherapy vouchers for French workers, an interview with Iceland's "minister of ideas", and why renewables are an attractive investment in hard times.
In the developed world, the service industry is a fast-growing driver of the economy, so it pays to have well-trained, highly skilled staff. While the MBA can boost your credentials in the business arena, Monocle asks…
Wednesday 11 November
It’s shaping up to be a funny last quarter in the world of civil aviation – particularly in Japan.
Singer Nana Mouskouri is now retired but her songs remain inseparable from Greek culture. She’s a staunch nationalist, having lived through Greece’s transition to a democracy, and is determined that her proud country will…
Wednesday 7 April
When Dan Robrish was interviewed for a reporting job at the Associated Press in 1998, he was asked about his professional ambitions.
Why fixing planes is better than flying them, why investors dig the student life and posh pawn gets the pulses racing in the US.
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