GT: This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar. The two ...

U.N. Secretary-General U Thant in 1909; actor Ann Sothern in 1909; musician Sam Cooke in 1931; actor Piper Laurie in 1932; actor Bill Bixby in 1934; celebrity chef Graham Kerr in 1934 (age 91 ...

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 ...

U Thant (rhymes with Du Pont).* His selection came after Russia finally backed away from its insistence on a troika leadership and compromised with the U.S. on the number and authority of ...

The Afro-Asians embraced the UN. In 1961, they were instrumental in the appointment of one of their own to secretary-general: the Burmese diplomat U Thant (my grandfather). In 1962, Thant, working ...

During his ambassadorship here as the representative of Burma, Mr. Thant was known as very friendly to Israel. Earlier, in 1955, he had visited Israel as the press aide to U Nu, then Burma’s ...

Burma has never been an idyllic place of the imagination. It’s important to see Burma both as a place with a repressive government and civil war for a clearer impression. Burma was all about ...

U Thant Island, officially Belmont Island, is a tiny mound of rock and greenery with a strange metal scaffold emerging from it. The minuscule island measures just 100-by-200 feet and it didn't ...

Original newspaper photograph of Thant meeting with Nasser in June 1967. Born in Burma and a dedicated Buddhist, U Thant (1909-1974) was the first non-European UN Secretary-General, and his ...

The obituary for Ambassador U Myo Thant Pe by Myanmar's foreign ministry in a state newspaper on Monday did not specify his cause of death. Diplomats in Beijing and a Chinese language Myanmar ...