They aim to move up the Party hierarchy. From town to county ... Meritocracy in Chinese bureaucratic system dates back to Han Dynasty some 4,000 years ago. Today, President Xi Jinping is strictly ...

A trio of researchers from Bocconi University, in Italy, the University of Cambridge, in the U.K., and Stanford University, ...

Learn more about how income inequality may increase the potential for political instability and may have led to the collapse of the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty.

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

Han took over as acting leader from President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was himself impeached over his short-lived declaration of martial law in December. Following the ruling, Han returns to his acting ...

Han Duck-soo upon arriving at the government office in Seoul also said South Korean people must stop fighting over the turmoil over President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment. (AP video shot by Yong Jun ...

Han Dong-hoon, a former leader of South Korea's ruling People Power Party, announced his bid for the presidency on Thursday.

South Korea will not follow China in fighting back against tariffs imposed by the United States, its leader told CNN in an ...

Mr. Han was co-chief executive and oversaw the company’s consumer electronics business since 2021. By Meaghan Tobin Reporting from Taipei, Taiwan Han Jong-Hee, the co-chief executive of Samsung ...

Samsung Electronics co-CEO Han Jong-Hee died from cardiac arrest on Tuesday, according to a spokesperson for the South Korean tech giant. Han was 63. Born in 1962, Han had overseen Samsung’s ...