Showing 11 - 20 of 20
New York Times, Published on 29/10/2021
» Merck has granted a royalty-free licence for its promising COVID-19 pill to a United Nations-backed nonprofit in a deal that would allow the drug to be manufactured and sold cheaply in the poorest nations, where vaccines for the coronavirus are in devastatingly short supply.
New York Times, Published on 06/07/2021
» MOSCOW: A passenger plane with 28 people aboard crashed in far eastern Russia on Tuesday, authorities said, in the latest blow to the country’s sprawling but ageing domestic aviation industry.
New York Times, Published on 18/05/2021
» GUIYANG, China: On the outskirts of this city in a poor, mountainous province in southwestern China, men in hard hats recently put the finishing touches on a white building a quarter-mile long with few windows and a tall surrounding wall.
New York Times, Published on 13/04/2021
» Late last month, foreign officials in army regalia toasted their hosts in Naypyitaw, the bunkered capital built by Myanmar’s military. Ice clinked in frosted glasses. A lavish spread had been laid out for the foreign dignitaries in honor of Myanmar’s Armed Forces Day.
New York Times, Published on 06/04/2021
» Faced with accusations that it was profiting from the forced labour of Uyghur people in the Chinese territory of Xinjiang, the H&M Group — the world’s second-largest clothing retailer — promised last year to stop buying cotton from the region.
New York Times, Published on 25/01/2021
» In monopolising the supply of vaccines against Covid-19, wealthy nations are threatening more than a humanitarian catastrophe: The resulting economic devastation will hit affluent countries nearly as hard as those in the developing world.
New York Times, Published on 23/06/2020
» All across Bangkok, fruit juice is dripping off chins, dribbling down arms and splashing onto the city’s pavements.
New York Times, Published on 15/12/2019
» The coconut wood pestle hits the mortar, and the chili fumes rise in a cough-inducing haze. The lime rind bruises. Salted crab releases its funk, along with bits of claw and carapace.
New York Times, Published on 07/10/2019
» BRUSSELS: One official could not answer basic questions about his portfolio. Another has been accused of misusing public funds while in office and is still being investigated. A third wore blackface.
New York Times, Published on 23/09/2019
» SI RACHA, Chon Buri: When Thai park rangers raided a popular zoo famous for letting visitors feed and handle tigers, their grisly haul three years ago shocked the world: 1,600 tiger parts, including pelts, amulets fashioned from skins, scores of teeth, 40 dead cubs found in a freezer and 20 more preserved in jars.