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Lasting impressions

Expo 2020 Dubai proved the UAE can host a global event. The site’s sustainability ambitions are now helping it to secure a future as a vibrant business and residential hub.

  • The Entrepreneurs #7
  • 5 min read
Lasting impressions
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Welcome to the UAE

Success takes graft and good ideas, but it's also about being in the right place at the right time. That’s how this UAE special, our first dedicated country issue of our business-minded magazine, began.

  • The Entrepreneurs #7
  • 3 min read
A large spherical white structure with Arabic calligraphy carved into its surface, surrounded by green landscaping and an ascending staircase.
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Rising Stars

Where do we go from here? Monocle explores the possibilities for growth in the UAE, from the shopping boom to pioneering space travel.

  • The Entrepreneurs #7
  • 5 min read
Illustration of medical icons including a heart, medication bottle, pill, stethoscope, and syringe.
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Partnership: Owning the future

The UAE has been building its artificial intelligence ambitions since 2017. With a 2031 leadership target in sight, its AI Office explains how investment, infrastructure and bold policy are delivering results.

  • The Entrepreneurs #7
  • 16 min read
Dubai skyline with high-rise towers and turquoise waterway, featuring UAE AI Office branding.
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Partnership: Shaping our digital world

From creek-side date trading to quantum computing corridors, Dubai's Chamber of Digital Economy is building the infrastructure, networks and policy frameworks to cement the city's status as the world's foremost digital business destination.

  • The Entrepreneurs #7
  • 6 min read
Ahmad Bin Byat speaking at a podium during a Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy event.
Entrepreneurialism

Growth spurt

Though soon to be stripped of its status as a capital city, Jakarta remains the beating heart of Indonesian entrepreneurship.

  • Issue #168
  • 13 min read
Growth spurt
Urbanism

Pulling the plug

Agnès Poirier on Paris’s doomed love affair with rental e-scooters and how life has changed post-ban.

  • Issue #168
  • 4 min read
E-scooter lying in a pile of rubble
Politics

Affairs

The stories you should be paying attention to – and the ones you might have missed.

  • Issue #168
  • 8 min read
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Diplomacy

In the balance

A rugged archipelago in the Baltic has been demilitarised since 1856 but as war rumbles on in Europe, can it retain its peaceful status?

  • Issue #168
  • 13 min read
In the balance
Sport

Train gang

The Kodokan Judo Institute offers accommodation, learning and a new way of looking at the world.

  • Issue #168
  • 2 min read
Large group of judo practitioners in white gis with red belts positioned across green and orange tatami mats in dojo

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