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With its House for Trees series, Vo Trong Nghia Architects has embarked on a mission to reintroduce greenery to inner-city Vietnam. Ha Long Villa is the latest home in the series, with the large luxury residence featuring trees that jut out of a concrete exterior.The house is located in Ha…

President Donald Trump and the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that it has approved the experimental drug remdesivir for treating coronavirus patients who require hospitalization.  The drug is administered intravenously once a day for up to 10 days and is believed to help patients recover faster.  Its manufacturer, Gilead…

Benjamin Corb is the public affairs director for the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which represents nearly 12,000 biomedical researchers in the United States and across the globe. He is also the president-elect of the Coalition for Health Funding, and serves on the board of directors of ScienceCounts.…

(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump likes to talk about the most, the best, the thing that nobody has ever seen. Now he is trying to make a virtue of a lower number, arguing that the efforts of his administration have warded off a far greater death toll than otherwise would…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines protested on Thursday China’s designation of a disputed South China Sea reef, which it has turned into a heavily fortified island base, as a Chinese “administrative center.”The Department of Foreign Affairs issued a statement objecting to what it called China’s “illegal designation” of Fiery…

Former national security adviser Susan Rice tore into Jared Kushner on Wednesday for claiming the federal government’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak has been a “great success story.” Kushner made his comments after the U.S. topped 1 million cases of the virus and more than 59,000 deaths. President Donald Trump’s…

Insider polled 1,099 people about how they've been affected by the novel coronavirus.Of the Americans surveyed, 12%, or one in eight, said they know someone who has died from COVID-19.Another 33% know someone who had been diagnosed, and 8% said someone "very close to me" had been diagnosed.Visit Business Insider's…

MIAMI (Reuters) - The governor of Florida, among the last to lock down his state against the U.S. coronavirus outbreak, announced on Wednesday he would permit a limited economic reopening next week while leaving restraints intact for the dense greater-Miami area. Florida became the latest, and one of the two…

April 29, 2020 6:45am by Barry Ritholtz My mid-week morning train WFH reads: • Some Countries Are Squashing the Coronavirus Curve. Vietnam Is One. (Wall Street Journal) • The II Fear Index: Investors Expect Long Lockdown (Institutional Investor) • Conferences pivot to streaming channels: ‘We look at this as having…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Vietnam features extensive ethnolinguistic diversity and occupies a key position in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA). Vietnam, with its borders to China, Laos and Cambodia, has a rich geographical diversity, and ample access to human migration with the Red River and Mekong deltas, and a long coastline.…