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India’s Own Apple and Samsung? Inside the Government’s New Plan to Build Homegrown Smartphone Giants

India now makes phones at a scale that would have seemed implausible a decade ago. It is the world’s second-largest

Thailand sells beauty the way it once sold beaches. Clinics line shopping malls. Influencers post before-and-after clips. Medical tourists book

India is producing billionaires at a pace few countries can match. It is also still home to one of the

Heroin addiction is not a single moment of weakness. It is a progressive takeover of the brain, body, and daily

For years after an HIV diagnosis in India, marriage often felt like a closed chapter. Families hid the status. Prospective

When people talk about the best sushi on the planet, they almost always name the chef. Jiro Ono of Sukiyabashi

For a long time, Indian food in New York meant a familiar script: creamy butter chicken, a basket of naan,

Ask what the strongest alcohol in America is and people usually expect a rare whiskey, a discontinued 151 rum, or

Malaysia’s remote swamplands are among the most hostile places a soldier can be asked to live. Heat and humidity sit

Northeast India is often spoken of as a single region, yet it is eight states, more than two hundred ethnic