Nobel Prize

A set of annual international awards established by Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895. The Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and for peace since 1901. Each prize consists of a medal, personal diploma, and a cash award worth of approximately HK$9.25 million as of 2012.

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A free Liu Xiaobo will be less of a headache for Beijing

1 Mar 2013

Communists are supposed to be unsentimental realists who care only about outcomes and results. So even judging by the ethics-free standard of pure realpolitik, the jailing of dissident and Nobel...

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Nobel laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini dies aged 103

31 Dec 2012

Nobel medicine laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, a neurologist and developmental biologist, died yesterday at her home in Rome aged 103.

Italy's so-called "Lady of the Cells" was the oldest...

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Stark contrast for China's Nobel laureates - one fêted, one behind bars

11 Dec 2012

Yesterday's UN Human Rights Day was marked by the starkly different fates of China's two Nobel laureates.

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House arrest 'too absurd' says wife of jailed Nobel winner Liu Xiaobo

6 Dec 2012

Liu Xia cried on Thursday as she described house arrest as "absurd" in the two years since her jailed activist husband Liu Xiaobo was named a Nobel Peace laureate.

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Mo Yan to leave Beijing tomorrow for date with Nobel Prize glory

4 Dec 2012

Novelist Mo Yan will leave Beijing tomorrow to receive the first Nobel Prize for literature awarded to a Chinese citizen.

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Nobel winner Mo Yan country's second-wealthiest writer

30 Nov 2012

Less than two months after winning the Nobel Prize for literature, Mo Yan can claim another distinction: China's second-richest writer.

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After staying in step with censors, Mo Yan can dance to his own tune

As a novelist who has managed to excel under the mainland's strict censorship regime, Nobel Prize laureate Mo Yan has been called many things. It's safe to say that "ballroom dancer" was never one...

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Mo Yan's hometown, Gaomi, plans to cash in on writer's Nobel Prize

Count authorities in Mo Yan's hometown Gaomi among those looking to cash in on the writer's sudden fame since winning the Nobel Prize for literature last week.

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US scholars Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley win Nobel economics award

US scholars Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on the functioning of markets and how to best match supply and demand.

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US economists win Nobel for applying match-making

Life-saving kidney exchange programmes are just one of the practical applications of the market-matching theories for which American economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the this year Nobel...

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'Wishful thinking' to link Mo Yan's Nobel prize with China's rise

The awarding of the 2012 Nobel Prize for literature to Mo Yan is a great recognition of Chinese literary talent, but for the government to say it symbolises China's "soft power" and rising...

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Nobel laureate Mo Yan praised for urging dissident's release

China’s Nobel Prize-winning writer Mo Yan won praise on Saturday from supporters of the jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo after the officially tolerated writer called for his fellow laureate’s freedom...

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