Friday 1 October
As Portugal announces austerity measures to boost its tax coffers and assuage the markets worried about its deficit, a pressing problem remains: who will be left in its cities to actually pay for it.
Thursday 7 July
Hindu temples, predominantly in southern India, are rich beyond compare
Thursday 8 November
It’s gone. Ding dong the witch is dead. The tax dodger (alleged) has been run out of town.
Monday 11 July
The fight to introduce a carbon trading scheme in Australia has already brought down one prime minister. Now it threatens to engulf the tenure of another.
Viking line’s M/S Gabriella and M/S Mariella ply the route between Helsinki and stockholm daily. Except for some backpackers getting cheaply from a to b, the 48-hour round trip is used for one chief purpose: the intensive…
The boats are hosed down, the kids are back at school and the holidays are well and truly over in the southern hemisphere, so now New Zealanders are bracing themselves for a year of political blood sport. An election must…
Alcohol tax in Turkey, election with Finland and Georgia's diplomacy love-in.
Taser guns get the go-ahead in France, and Swedish prisoners get a style makeover.
London's mayoral election, shenanigans in the Spanish royal family, and why people are leaving Portugal.
Sunday 6 June
Japanese cigarette taxes go up in October, and I wish I could gloat.
Constantine Buhayer explains the continuing crisis of Greece’s tax avoiders, and we talk to Rodrigo Russo about Brazil’s faltering economy.
Australia tackles tax evasion on Vanuatu, New Zealand uses music to fight antisocial behaviour and the tiny state of Timor-Leste gets its own airline.
Friday 12 February
While the secrecy surrounding Swiss banking is being torn to pieces by a German government intent on battling tax evasion by its citizens, a new trade is on the rise in Switzerland.
We look at the problems with taxing salt, hear the aviation news from LA, and we learn about a very influential fraternity.
A look at the history of Afghanistan, how to retrieve €17 trillion in dodged tax, and a view of Syria’s conflict from the Golan Heights.
Steve Bloomfield looks back through the week's programmes, including a Japanese diaspora in Brazil, some taxing issues concerning salt and a carrier pigeon.
We discuss Mitt Romney’s tax status with Sasha Issenberg, find out how to book a holiday in North Korea and meet polar explorer Ben Saunders.
The latest from the protests in Istanbul, we find out what's on the agenda at a meeting between Russia and the European Union, and head to Spain for the start of our series on tax.
Chile charges a new "fat tax," Peru moves into second place ofter Colombia as top coco leaf producer and MONOCLE reports from Washington's corridors of power.
High taxes and rigid regulation have made it a tough sell for Japan’s artisan beer makers. But increasingly astute drinkers are starting to appreciate the superior quality product micro-breweries have to offer.
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