KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 (Bernama) -- Avaland Bhd’s wholly owned subsidiary Nexus Advertising Sdn Bhd has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with Tong Ah Company Sdn Bhd to acquire ...

The Kansas Jayhawks are officially on the board. Former Utah forward Keanu Dawes will transfer to KU basketball, his agent Brandon Grier confirmed to The Star on Thursday morning. Dawes will also go ...

Kansas earns No. 4 seed in East Regional and draws No. 13 Cal Baptist in San Diego. KU (23-10) faces Cal Baptist Friday; a win sets match with St. John’s or Northern Iowa. East Regional winner ...

Very often, biography shines a light on history at a time when its lessons are most needed. Thant Myint U's pacey biography of his grandfather U Thant, who was secretary-general of the United Nations ...

For eleven months, U Thant had made it perfectly clear that he did not want to continue as Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Americans were complicating his life by bombing North Viet Nam, ...

THE Secretary-General who comes after me,” Dag Hammarskjold once said, “will be one of the Afro-Asians.” Last week, nearly two months after Hammarskjold’s death, the U.N. fulfilled his prophecy.

With elections for the next United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) due in 2026, expect the next few months in global politics to be dominated by discussions on what or whom the world body needs, to ...

HAVANA, Oct. 30, 1962 (UPI) -- Acting United Nations Secretary General Thant arrived here today to arrange for UN observation of the dismantling and removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. Thant said ...

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 this episode of Asia Inside Out, Asia Society Policy Institute's Managing Director, Rorry Daniels, speaks with historian and author Thant Myint-U, grandson of former UN Secretary-General U Thant, ...

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 immediately faced unfolding crises around the ...