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Happy Valley

In just 30 years, Bhutan has gone from underdeveloped status to having the highest per capita GDP in South Asia. But does the march towards modernisation threaten its Gross National Happiness?

  • Issue #73
  • 8 min read
Happy Valley
Affairs

Defence

Kosovo wants its own army, India wants to build its own weapons and the countries considering joining Nato.

  • Issue #73
  • 4 min read
Defence
Politics

Asia

The motorcade of Mongolia's president (the only one in our series that's included a horse) and a boost for public transport in Jakarta and Mumbai.

  • Issue #67
  • 4 min read
Asia
Travel and restaurants

Bienvenue en Inde

Pondicherry, a corner of India home to 7,000 French expats, offers pétanque and pâtisseries. It's a microcosm of flourishing business ties between France and India, but is it ready for major economic growth?

  • Issue #63
  • 9 min read
policeman directs traffic wearing a French-style uniform
Affairs

Asia

Cambodia keeps politics in the family, South Korea get equal, and Japan gets green vending machines

  • Issue #62
  • 4 min read
Red Coca-Cola peak shift vending machine with colorful promotional graphics and Japanese text on display.
Affairs

On the money

How come some nations’ banks glided through the global banking crisis unscathed? Do we even need money? But what if it’s forged? Three writers deposit their accounts.

  • Issue #29
  • 3 min read
On the money
Affairs

Forecast 2010: Transport

What you can learn on an Indian train; the future of commuting; Japan pushes further, faster and Bogotá goes Underground.

  • Issue #29
  • 4 min read
Forecast 2010: Transport
Politics

Asia

Hong Kong chief executive Donald Tsang's motorcade and India's embrace of ID cards

  • Issue #41
  • 5 min read
Illustration of a Singaporean passport showing a woman's portrait with statistics on nationality and children per woman.
Business

Asia

France steps in to save Japan's oyster industry and China wonders if its one-chile policy is still a good idea.

  • Issue #46
  • 5 min read
Helping hand- oysters
Art

Subodh Gupta

Pioneering artist Subodh Gupta is known as the “Damien Hirst of India”. A family gathering is his choice for a hypothetical final feast.

  • Issue #52
  • 7 min read
Subodh Gupta at home in Gurgaon

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