10+ hour, 5+ min ago   (57+ words) monocle.com Are you one of those people who are prone to post-party depression? Or are you more the type who can celebrate a grand event, collapse, recover and get on with whatever’s lined up next?… Issue #196 | September 2026...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (998+ words) From fashion to toys, outsourced production lines are closing as companies rediscover local industries. This shift brings benefits to individual companies and suggests that not every western nation must be a service economy. For years, the chase to cut costs…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (568+ words) Why did the Samoan cross the road? (It’s all in the name of regional harmony), Australia and New Zealand drop their guards and rock’n’roll rescues aboriginal languages. With a little bit of country and a little bit of rock’n’roll, young…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (219+ words) Abu Dhabi is built on oil but the city is morphing into a technology and culture superpower. Who are the visionaries on the ground turning dreams into bricks and mortar? It’s water towers in New York, strobe-lit banks in Hong…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (869+ words) Saxony, once under communist rule, is now a German manufacturing centre for luxury brands. But can its capital, Dresden, become as synonymous with high-end shopping as Paris and Milan? Think of German luxury goods, and Porsche and BMW spring to…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (234+ words) Conversations with the community led to the creation of Toronto’s Reina condominium complex, complete with multi-generational units, ample stroller parking and child play areas visible from the communal gym. What would happen if the developers, architects, engineers and electricians building…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (254+ words) As cities swelter in heatwaves of increasing ferocity and the need for climate-regulating and shadeproviding canopy cover grows clearer, urban planners and landscape architects are turning to tree services and suppliers, to import trees. “Olive trees are incredibly strong and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (246+ words) Paul Griffiths believes that the Gulf’s extraordinary aviation setback will be temporary. Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports – the operator managing both Dubai International Airport (DXB) and Al Maktoum International (DWC) – remains optimistic. When Monocle sat down with him, he…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (829+ words) Is your country too small? Make it bigger. Monocle reports from Singapore and the Netherlands, where nations are reclaiming record amounts of land from the sea to expand their territory and house growing populations. Political and environmental controversy, however, continues…...