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Affairs / Society
Asia briefing
Portable farms from Japan, cash for babies in Taiwan, China and South Korea finally find something they can both agree on.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Friday 17 December
Change for the world’s second least populous country
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.
Affairs / Urbanism
Desert Operation
It’s twice as big in area as Tel Aviv but it has only 200,000 residents – and a reputation for being dusty and dreary. Be’er-Sheva’s mayor, however, plans to change that. But the makeover leaves little space for the local…
Business / Entrepreneurialism
Peter Pan pensioners
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…
Affairs / Politics
No flour, no power
Despite healthy economic growth, two thirds of Pakistanis earn under $2 a day, 60 per cent of adults are illiterate, and the country is in the grip of a food and fuel crisis. No wonder the frivolity of Islamabad’s wedding…
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Sydney's waterless car wash and America's "Year of the Pacific".
Affairs / Society
Coming home
Thousands of Spaniards lost their citizenship as they fled Spain’s Civil War and Franco. Now Spain is offering its descendents the right to be Spanish. Should other countries who need migrants do more to encourage the…
The Globalist, episode 81
Why Calcutta’s rebranding itself as the blue city, a business check in with Der Spiegel in Hamburg, and a discussion about Sweden’s wolf population.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 7 February
The Arctic’s embattled ‘white giant’
As sea ice continues to disappear off the Alaskan coast, its population of polar bears is increasingly under threat.
The Monocle Daily, episode 38
Tyler Brûlé and Tom Burges Watson discuss the Chinese president, we travel to the Louvre and ask how cities need to adapt to ageing populations.
The Globalist, episode 223
We profile Japan’s aging population, learn about Kenya’s coastal separatist movement, and get Australian business news with James Chessell.
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 February
Crunch time for Nigeria’s next election
Democratic elections in Africa’s most populous nation would be problematic even without the violence and alleged fraud that has marred Nigeria’s previous polls.
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Monday 29 April
Power in numbers
While popular political debate in the US can at times seems trite, a short journey south to Panama reveals a well-informed population
Midori House, episode 36
Why Syria’s Christian population might support President Bashar Al Assad and we find out how Lyon’s Festival of Lights can blow away winter blues.
The Monocle Daily, episode 388
As Iraq experiences the bloodiest two days for months, we look at how to prevent tensions spreading. Plus, we find out the reasons for Stockholm’s rapid population growth, and go through the Australasian papers with our…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Monday 12 November
New challenges for China’s new leader
You can’t take enough precautionary security measures when the current and future leaders of the world’s most populous country gather to swap government posts and swear-in the generation of people who will rule for the next…
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 March
Japan focus: jitters in the east and continuity in the west
If you happened to have been on any of the crowded bullet trains that left Tokyo for Kyoto, Osaka and Hakata last night, you might have thought that Japan was in the midst of a population boom.