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Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 10, 2019
Failure to adapt to climate impacts will hike inequality, commission warns
From taxpayer-backed flood defenses in Miami to shelters keeping Bangladeshis safe from storms, investing to protect against the growing effects of climate change pays, a global commission said Tuesday, warning failure to do so will hike inequality.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 25, 2017
Scandal, gaffes mar ex-U.N. chief's presidential prospects in South Korea
It has been an inauspicious return to crisis-plagued South Korea for former U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon, once the odds-on favorite to be the next president, who has been ensnared in a family corruption scandal and struggled with a skeptical press.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jan 21, 2017
U.S. asks South Korea to arrest brother of former U.N. chief Ban
The U.S. government has asked South Korea to arrest a brother of former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on charges that he engaged in a bribery scheme to carry out the sale of a Vietnamese building complex, a U.S. prosecutor said on Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 16, 2017
Former U.N. chief Ban throws weight behind THAAD deployment
Former United Nations chief and presumptive South Korean presidential candidate Ban Ki-moon has backed the deployment later this year of a U.S. anti-missile system to the country amid North Korea's progress in its nuclear and missile programs.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 21, 2016
U.N.'s Ban offers strongest hint yet of run at South Korean presidency
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his strongest signal yet on Tuesday that he will seek the South Korean presidency next year as a corruption scandal that reached the highest level of government continues to roil the country.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 21, 2016
Ban Ki-moon's mixed legacy
The United Nations has become less relevant after a decade of leadership by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 6, 2016
U.N. chief Ban may be unwitting loser in South Korean presidential scandal
Besides South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the biggest casualty of the country's mushrooming political corruption scandal may be the presidential aspirations of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 23, 2016
Outgoing U.N. chief Ban mulls future in South Korea, where he tops presidential polls
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday he will return to South Korea in January after heading the world body for a decade and will consider what role he can play in the future of his country amid a push for him to run for president.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2016
Japan mourns Thai king; hundreds flock to embassy in Tokyo
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is one of the first world leaders to pay tribute to Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2016
Welcome transparency in picking U.N. chief
The United Nations has opened up the selection process for secretary-general to a level never seen in its 70-year history.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 20, 2016
On Moroccan order, international staffers in U.N.'s Western Sahara mission depart
Dozens of United Nations international staffers pulled out of their Western Sahara mission Sunday after Morocco demanded they leave because of remarks by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about the disputed territory.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2015
U.N. improves its leadership selection process
The selection of the new secretary-general is arguably one of the most important decisions that the international community will make for the next 10 years.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Nov 25, 2015
Ban blasts Balkan border curbs, 'profiling' of refugees; Greece arrivals ebb
The United Nations on Tuesday condemned new restrictions on refugees that have left around 1,000 migrants stuck at the main border crossing into Macedonia from Greece, denied entry due to their nationalities in violation of international law.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 24, 2015
U.N. chief Ban sees 'positive signs' from Pyongyang on North Korea visit
In his first public comments on a possible trip to North Korea, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was discussing dates for his visit with the isolated state, but that no decision has been reached.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 18, 2015
U.N. says Ban won't visit North Korea on upcoming trip
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's upcoming schedule does not include a trip to North Korea, according to an itinerary released by his spokesman after Chinese media reported that Ban would visit the North on Monday.

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