By P. Kandiah and Geetha Kandiah
Moderna Inc., Sanofi, AstraZeneca plc, Roche, Gilead Sciences and Novartis are just some of the many pharmaceutical companies working to fast-track the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Many companies and research institutions from various countries are racing to develop the vaccine for COVID-19.
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Inle Lake is a favorite of foreign and local travelers alike. The ecosystem formed around it is attracting more and more visitors. Poems, songs, stories and paintings portraying the beauty of the lake have also contributed to its reputation around the world.
For most visitors to Myanmar, the lake ranks...
Charly Wilder (The New York Times)
The sky over Tajikistan was a deep deoxygenated blue as we sped through the desolate mountain landscape of the eastern Pamirs. For days we had been driving one of the world’s most treacherous roads, the Pamir Highway, which snakes through the highlands of Tajikistan...
Walter Thompson-Hernández (The New York Times)
Jayla Sheffield, 15, looked to her left and right. She and six friends, all wearing black shorts, white Nikes and T-shirts with the words “Jayla’s Quince,” paused, ready to kick off a night of festivities with a dance routine they had practiced for months.
The...
Unwanted plastics clog landfills and sully city streets and nature preserves. Most alarming to many, the material is beginning to overwhelm the planet’s oceans — from the ballooning Great Pacific Garbage Patch to trash discovered in the Pacific’s deepest reaches.
The amount of plastic streaming into the oceans is roughly...
This season can generally be called the tourism season. However, people are traveling all the time these days as the country is full of seasonal festivals from concerts and arts festivals in the plains areas to traditional festivals in the mountain ranges to festivals related to historic pagodas. There...
Vanessa Friedman (The New York Times)
Virgil Abloh, the founder of Off-White and the menswear designer of Louis Vuitton, is the kind of fashion figure that seems to demand comparison.
Almost every profile contains one buried somewhere in the text. He is “the Andy Warhol for our times” (The Guardian), he...
Kenneth Chang (The New York Times)
If you have tens of millions of dollars to spare, you could as soon as next year be one of three passengers setting off aboard a spaceship to the International Space Station for a 10-day stay.
On March 5, Axiom Space, a company run by...
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PETER, Minn. – Mark Forgy owns the largest collection of work by Elmyr de Hory, one of the most notorious art forgers of the 20th century. In the 1950s and ’60s, de Hory is believed to have forged over...
I had not been to Shan State since a childhood visit long ago. Distant memories of the trip created a blur between what I had experienced and the beautiful scenes I saw during the trip. Even the notion of being there was hard to recall. Maybe because I was...
