Nobel Prizes

Mo Yan's Nobel speech splits public opinion

12 Dec 2012

Author Mo Yan's speech at the Nobel awards banquet in Sweden has stirred mixed reactions from the public. Some deemed it honest, while others denounced his silence on the issue of mainland...

Mo Yan's Nobel Prize lecture scorned by China dissidents

9 Dec 2012

Mo Yan's Nobel lecture did little to dispel ongoing controversy in China's literary circles, with state media widely covering this year's literature prize winner even as dissident artists piled on...

Mo Yan walks delicate line on his way to collect Nobel literature prize

6 Dec 2012

China's Nobel literature winner, Mo Yan, headed to Sweden yesterday to collect his award, but he walks a delicate line with the authorities and is expected to avoid mentioning his jailed fellow...

Science chief wants to see China lead the way in scientific breakthroughs

25 Nov 2012

When Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize for Literature last month, Dr Bai Chunli, president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, had mixed feelings.

An economics Nobel for the Chinese Communist Party?

26 Oct 2012

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union has given pundits the world over a field day. One commentator even asked yesterday in the Financial Times whether any comparable...

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Transparency in selecting Nobel prizes needed

Nobel prizes and controversy seem to go hand in hand. Three of the five given this year were contentious - said to be overtly political or prematurely awarded. Supporters inevitably hailed the...

Cat's out of the box as we peer into quantum world

Many people have heard of Schrodinger's cat. The winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics have shown deep insights into this famous paradox of quantum mechanics.

Mo Yan's Nobel means recognition for China at last, but critics air doubts

Mo Yan's Nobel Prize for literature was hailed by the public as a sign that contemporary Chinese literature has finally won global recognition, even as several cultural critics questioned the...

Mo Yan: a dark satirist who tells the 'big stories of China'

Mo Yan has come far from Gaomi, where he was born to a farming family in the early days of communist rule, but his writing has never left.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Liu Xiaobo still hidden behind veil of silence two years after Nobel Prize

Two years after his Nobel Peace Prize, Liu Xiaobo remains imprisoned, relatives are under house arrest or cowed into silence and, supporters say, the democratic change he sought seems further away...