Dr. Myint-U is a historian and the author of “Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a Just World.” The most striking thing about President Trump’s proposal for a Board of Peace, a new group ...

China’s top diplomat Wang Yi on Tuesday called for a new paradigm for engagement with the United States, emphasising the need for stable, cooperative ties while firmly defending what he described as ...

Yi He, a co-founder of Binance, will split duties with Richard Teng, who had taken over for former Binance head Changpeng Zhao after he was removed in 2023. Yi He is a close partner of Zhao, with the ...

Yi He, the businesswoman who co-founded cryptocurrency exchange giant Binance with its former leader Changpeng Zhao, is to be co-CEO of the company, Binance's CEO Richard Teng announced on Tuesday at ...

Historian Thant Myint-U speaks with Christiane Amanpour about his book “Peacemaker,” on the life and work of his grandfather U Thant, the first non-European Secretary General of the United Nations.

In the early 1960s, U Thant, a practicing Buddhist from a remote town in Burma, became the first non-Western secretary-general of the United Nations. He was immediately faced with unfolding crises in ...

Former CSRC Chairman Yi was unexpectedly ousted in February 2024 Yi led CSRC reforms, modernising China's capital markets and boosting tech financing Yi's tenure saw STAR Market launch, Beijing Stock ...

Hello! I’m Mark Olsen. Welcome to another edition of your regular field guide to a world of Only Good Movies. This week I come to you from Toronto, where I have joined a cadre of LAT colleagues to ...

"Harmony is a precious thing..." Janus Films has debuted a new 4K restoration trailer for the re-release of the masterpiece Yi Yi, the final film from Taiwanese maestro Edward Yang. This originally ...

The career of former UN Secretary-General U Thant represents both the potential for heroic diplomacy and its heartbreaking limitations, according to this intricate biography. Thant Myint-U (The Hidden ...

EIGHTY YEARS ago, in the final months of the second world war, delegates from 50 countries convened in San Francisco to create an enduring mechanism for peace. The United Nations Charter, signed on ...

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