The meeting is taking place at the Elysée Palace, ahead of Notre-Dame Cathedral's grand reopening, after five years of reconstruction. President Emmanuel Macron, 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient, hosted three-way talks with Ukrainian...
President Joe Biden has appointed Professor Alondra Nelson—a recipient of the World Leader in AIWS Award and the Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study—to serve as a Member of the National Science Board (NSB)....
(May 30th, 2016) After warning at the G7 Summit that the global economy faces the risk of another crisis like that of 2008-2009, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to propose a fiscal stimulus package of as much as $90.7 billion to help ward it off, Nikkei, the...
(May 30th, 2016) This link will take you to a description of the program in Vietnam of the UNESCO Chair in Global Learning and Global Citizenship Education, with which The Boston Global Forum has been collaborating closely. The program has been working in Vietnam...
(May 23rd, 2016) U.S. President Obama is considering broadly expanding weapons sales to Vietnam to strengthen ties with Hanoi and boost regional defenses against China's growing clout – and especially its seizure and militarization of some islands and reefs in the...
(May 23rd, 2016) The Russian news service Sputnik News, which acts as a conduit for government pronouncements, says that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been laying the groundwork for further economic and other...
(May 23rd, 2016) In preparation for the G7 Summit May 26-27, G7 education ministers meeting in Japan have agreed to collaborate to improve education, including addressing the education deficits of refugee children and widening income inequality (with some of the...
(May 16th, 2016) The Russian government-linked news service Sputnik News reported that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has expressed his confidence in what the service called a ‘’breakthrough’’ in relations with Vladimir Putin’s government. Mr. Abe said that talks...