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Colombian newspaper ‘El Espectador’ has survived financial woes, falling sales and a cartel vendetta. Monocle meets its director as part of our series on firms keeping high-quality print publishing alive.
Business
Ukrainian chicken farming ruffles feathers, and Hong Kong gets a taste for the grape.
Leading the flock
In the first of a regular monthly series of international street profiles, we popped down to Lamb’s Conduit Street for a stroll, some tapas and a little retail reconnaissance.
Turkmenistan
When Turkmenistan's President Niyazov died in 2006, it was the end of an eccentric personality cult. His successor promised to open the state up but today the gas-rich nation is still an enigma. Foreign…
Paris: global city
Blending diplomacy, urbanism and culture, Paris has become a hothouse for fresh thinking. We explore the city's turnaround and why we've made it our global city of the year.
Europe
Finns aren't what they used to be - the rise of the Nordic suburbs; fighting crime in Stockholm and hitting new lows on the Milanese high street.
Oceania
Sydneys' refit, a change of fortune for New Zealand's "arsehole of the world", and Perth "does a Dubai with its waterfront.
Thinking cities
Six leading writers, thinkers and academics – including Alain de Botton and Richard Florida – give their view on the state of today’s cities, and their vision of the urban future.
Born to run
Hugo Chávez faces a new challenge from a charismatic opposition politician, Leopoldo López, who hopes to become mayor of Caracas. Can he bring peace to a city where 52 people are murdered every day?
