When China allowed Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo to die in police custody, it made a bet that world governments were more invested in improving trade ties than defending political dissidents. Even as...
China has rejected international criticism for not allowing its most prominent critic, Liu Xiaobo, to be treated abroad for liver cancer. It said the case was an internal affair and that other...
The United States mourned the death of imprisoned Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo Thursday and called on China to free the dissident's widow from house arrest and let her leave the country. "Mr Liu...
The United States urged China on Tuesday to give cancer-stricken Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo and his wife freedom to move and choose his own doctors after he was granted medical parole. The...
Liu Xiaobo, who won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize from behind bars, was for decades a vocal champion of democracy and human rights until Chinese authorities locked him up for speaking out. The...
“I think a lot about excellence and originality. I also focus on honesty, integrity and fearlessness in music. That is the only way…We have to be excellent and original in all that we do. I...
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday praised the normalisation of relations with Norway, six years after a dispute over the Nobel Peace Prize, as Norway's prime minister said she was glad to be...
After months of controversy, Bob Dylan is in Stockholm to finally grab his Nobel literature prize in a meeting with the Swedish Academy, which awarded him for his poetry. The first songwriter to...
The first works by Nobel laureates following the prize inevitably draw extra attention. For Bob Dylan, his release is as unorthodox as his selection for literature's top award. On the heels of the...
Ghanaian Writers Need To Know The Swedish Academy's definition of literature “By the time he was 23, Bob’s voice, with its weight, its unique, gravelly power was redefining not just what music...
I have been studiously following the controversy and heated debate swirling around the erection and/or installing of the life-size statue of India’s independence movement icon and legendary civil...
The 2016 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world’s smallest machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa will share the 8m kronor...
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three British-born scientists for discoveries about strange forms of matter. David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, will share the...
