BEH LIH YI FROM a stateless scientist developing COVID-19 vaccine technology to countries wooing "digital nomads" to help revive their economies, there have been brighter headlines in a year dominated by the pandemic. Here are 10 upbeat stories from 2020 about efforts to improve people's lives during the coronavirus outbreak: Stateless scientist works on COVID-19 vaccine technology Stateless Nowras Rahhal, who arrived in Germany two years ago from Syria, is among a team of scientists in Germany working to develop COVID-19 vaccination technology, by allowing vaccines to be applied to the skin rather than injected into muscle. Before leaving Syria,…