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Happy valley
The people of Yogyakarta are a contented lot. The city is not only the cultural heart of Java but, thanks to leaders who have stamped out corruption, it’s a vibrant business centre too.
Seoul Design
Long overshadowed by its neighbours, Seoul's creative community is flourishing as a new generation of designers, artists and entrepreneurs develop projects from product design to theatre spaces. Monocle's Gabriel Leigh travelled to the South…
Neighbourhood: Main Street Life
Continuing our series on neighbourhoods we witness the transformation of a turbulent area in Downtown Johannesburg into a lively, creative community.
Burel: Fabricating felt
We follow the fortunes of a Burel factory frozen in time in Portugal's Serra da Estrela mountains and rescued by local entrepreneurs João Tomás and Isabel Costa.
Asia
China’s leadership duo Xi Jinping and Peng Liyuan are in the Style Leader spot. Meanwhile, work has begun on a new Beijing airport, and India’s Uttar Pradesh has a new leader.
Business
The surprising success of importing European artisan cheese culture to China, while a new trend for fine wine also takes off in Hong Kong and plans to legalise casinos in Japan get underway.
Doggie style
The Japanese are going bonkers over their canines. But with the market for doggie products reaching saturation point, what’s next for the lucrative industry? Funerals and hotels apparently.
Europe
An eye on Serbia's parliamentary election, the launch of Bristol's own currency, and Q&As with Sweden's Minister of Gender Equality and the CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management, Oslo.
Lapo Elkann
Lapo Elkann, founder of lifestyle brand Italia Independent, prefers rustic, simple Italian food. He’d have his last meal at Sant’Eustorgio because of its picturesque location and comfort food.
