09:1909:19, 9 August 2024diffhist+15
Lim Yew Hock
→Legacy and reputation: He was elected to the Legislative Council, later the Legislative Assembly, and was eventually appointed as Chief Minister, becoming an influential politician in colonial Singaporecurrent
03:0703:07, 2 August 2024diffhist+77
Mindan
→Activities: Mindan helped push support for the relocation of a statue in front of the Japanese consulate in Busan, South Korea’s second largest city,
14:5014:50, 19 July 2024diffhist+243
Foreign relations of Mauritius
France, the colonial power until 1810, Mauritius' only immediate neighbour being Réunion, both an overseas department of France and an outermost region of the EU. Mauritius also maintains close ties with the United Kingdom, a former member EU state and the colonial power until 1968
17:5117:51, 15 July 2024diffhist+136
Niue Assembly
→Elections: Electors and candidates must be either New Zealand citizens or permanent residents of Niue, continually resident for at least three years at some point, and ordinarily resident for twelve months prior to enrolment as an elector or, as the case may be, nomination as a candidate.
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John Peck (diplomat)
→Career: Peck was the first British Ambassador to Ireland to have been recruited from the Foreign Office; despite Ireland having left the Commonwealth in 1949, his predecessors had been recruited from the Commonwealth Relations Office or its successor, the Commonwealth Officecurrent