Netherlands shipbuilder Damen manufactures the boats that keep navies and coast guards up-to-speed worldwide. A near-century old success story, theirs is a contribution to a local tradition stretching back even further.
Iraq has plans to build a shipping route that’s a cheaper alternative to the Suez Canal, starting with a port just south of Basra. It’s the biggest project ever undertaken by Iraq but will the war-ravaged city’s residents…
In studios around the world, they sit with scalpels, glue and balsa wood – creating everything from mini cities to pint-sized planes and shrunken ships in order to secure big budgets to build the real thing. Monocle meets…
In studios around the world, they sit with scalpels, glue and balsa wood, creating everything from mini cities to pint-sized planes and shrunken ships in order to secure big budgets to build the real thing. Monocle meets…
Friday 22 March
With a focus on quantity not quality and some high-profile safety embarrassments, the cruise line industry needs to get back to being ship shape.
Sunday 29 August
Starved of modern equipment, and with a small ageing fleet barely capable of defending the country’s huge airspace, Indonesia’s decision to buy 10 new Sukhoi fighter jets – the last three of which are due to touch down from…
Wednesday 17 August
Any day now, China will launch the first aircraft carrier in its Navy’s history.
Sunday 26 August
Scattered around the cities, towns, villages and hamlets of Great Britain and most of Europe, sit memorials to those who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
Friday 17 September
When American hiker Sarah Shourd was released last week after 14 months in an Iranian jail, a private jet was waiting for her.
Friday 8 March
A New Jersey couple are causing controversy with their desire to move out of their Frank Lloyd Wright home – and then have *it* moved, brick by brick, to save it from falling into a river. A justified brouhaha or an unne…
Monday 28 February
Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak once famously described Israel as “a villa in the jungle”
Friday 5 February
Spurred on by the Lebanese government’s promise to cut carbon emissions and start using renewable energy, the Danish embassy in Beirut decided to introduce some much needed green thinking to the land of Cedars.
Sunday 1 July
One day last week a cake was delivered to Midori House: perfectly moist, indulgently rich and lovingly iced.
Monday 28 September
Beijing will play host to an emphatic demonstration of China’s growing military power on Thursday when a panoply of new military hardware is unveiled at this year’s National Day parade, marking the 60th anniversary of the…
MONOCLE interviews the commander of the Norwegian Coast Guard and reports on military deals in Afganistan and Australia.
Yhe south koreans have become the globe’s most successful shipbuilders – the country is home to the three biggest shipyards in the world, all based around the port of busan. that’s great when the global economy is in full…
Spanish shipbuilders have seen out the storms and now, thanks to booming global demand, their order books are full. But as the yards launch ships for the Australian navy and the world’s biggest dredgers, could the tide turn…
The ship that leaves from South Africa for St Helena has a practical purpose – it’s the only means of reaching the isolated island. But the ‘RMS St Helena’ is also a place where time stands still – harking back to the…
Once a nondescript office area with little in the way of shops or restaurants, Marunouchi in Tokyo is undergoing the latest stages of a 20-year transformation into a vibrant retail and financial centre. The next phase will…
Sunday 18 October
The Chinese government might not have let its own people watch the huge military parade that it staged in Beijing on 1 October (except on state-gilded TV).
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