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...Mercury, a Japanophile, also amassed classic works such as the woodblock print “Sudden Shower over the Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake” (1857, est £30,000-£50,000) by Utagawa Hiroshige....
...Myung-hee of South Korea and Amina Mohamed from Kenya....
...The US has previously said in statements only that it supports South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee, the other remaining candidate for the job, calling her a “bona fide trade expert”....
...Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee will contest the final run-off and the winner will be announced in early November after a final few weeks of campaigning, trade officials said...
...Earlier on Friday the South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee, who had not stood down from the race despite weaker backing than her rival last year, dropped out, saying the future of the WTO had become...
...Ms Okonjo-Iweala, a former finance minister, is facing off against South Korea’s trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee, in the final round of voting at the WTO....
...Yoo Myung-hee, South Korea’s trade minister, is one of eight contenders to succeed the Brazilian Roberto Azevedo as WTO director-general....
...Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigeria finance minister, has attracted more widespread support to become the next director-general than her rival, South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee, the WTO said on Wednesday....
...Myung-hee instead....
...There are two candidates left — South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee and Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala....
...Washington has signalled it prefers South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee....
...They will be joined by the two favourites, Kenya’s Amina Mohamed and Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and Yoo Myung-hee, South Korea’s trade minister....
...Last Friday, South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee dropped out of the race....
...Instead, significant resources were spent over recent months on trade minister Yoo Myung-hee’s campaign for the role of World Trade Organization director-general....
...“As a shareholder, we are concerned about the protracted legal wrangling and uncertainties,” said Park Yoo-kyung, an adviser at APG Asset Management, the Dutch pension fund....
...Yesterday we interviewed Yoo Myung-hee, the Korean candidate, whose pitch was that being a trade minister during the Covid-19 pandemic itself was a big plus: a good point but probably not a decisive one...
...After speaking to the US government, and not before time, the Korean candidate Yoo Myung-hee withdrew from the race to be WTO director-general....
...Not so Yoo Myung-hee, the Korean candidate, to whom both Tokyo and Beijing have reasons to object....
...“We are sending a signal to the North Korean elites,” says Ethan Hee-Seok Shin, one of the TJWG’s co-founders....
...European trade officials on Friday confirmed to us what we reported on Thursday — that at least 26 of the 27 EU member states will back the Nigerian, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the Korean, Yoo Myung-hee, to...
...Other contenders include Hamid Mamdouh from Egypt, a former WTO official, Jesús Seade Kuri of Mexico, a trade negotiator, South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee and Tudor Ulianovschi, a former foreign...
...In the meantime, one person who definitely wants to be DG is the Korean trade minister, Yoo Myung-hee, who was nominated yesterday....
...The declared candidates are Egypt’s Hamid Mamdouh, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from Nigeria, Jesús Seade Kuri of Mexico, Tudor Ulianovschi from Moldova and South Korea’s Yoo Myung-hee....
...Robert Lighthizer, the US trade representative, said Washington would block Okonjo-Iweala in favour of the Korean candidate, Yoo Myung-Hee, for suspiciously vague reasons....
...Myung-hee are considered to be probably too geopolitically close to the US for China’s liking....
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