China Nobel Winner

China's censors raced today to scrub social media networks of candles, RIP and other tributes to Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo as they seek to silence discussion about the prominent dissident's death.

China's jailed Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has been granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer last month, his lawyer told AFP on Monday.

Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said today she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.

Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan has heaped praise on the ruling Communist party and its leader Xi Jinping in an interview likely to renew debate about his political stance.

The wife of China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to new Chinese leader Xi Jinping to protest the 11-year prison term given to her brother.

A small group of Chinese dissidents forced their way past security guards last week to visit the detained wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and deliver a message of support, one of the dissidents said on Monday.

With an empty chair on the podium, Norway's Nobel Committee braved furious Chinese protests on Friday, preparing to honor the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in his absence, without handing over its coveted, golden peace medal to a named winner for the first time in over 70 years. Around a third of the 64 invited countries with embassies in Osl...

In the week after Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of promoting democratic change in China, dozens of people who openly agreed with his views say they have been detained, roughed up, harassed or kept from leaving their homes.The latest appears to be a woman who Liu has said should win the prize: Ding Zilin, who has fought for ye...

The wife of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, was allowed to meet with her husband on Sunday at the prison in northeastern China where he is serving an 11-year sentence, but she was then escorted back to Beijing and placed under house arrest, a human rights group said. Prison officials had informed Mr. Liu that he won the award -- a...

China's censors raced today to scrub social media networks of candles, RIP and other tributes to Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo as they seek to silence discussion about the prominent dissident's death.

China's jailed Nobel peace prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has been granted medical parole after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer last month, his lawyer told AFP on Monday.

Tu Youyou, the first Chinese woman to win a Nobel prize for medicine, said today she was "not really surprised" to be recognised after a remarkable career which saw her team test a breakthrough malaria drug on themselves during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.

Chinese Nobel laureate Mo Yan has heaped praise on the ruling Communist party and its leader Xi Jinping in an interview likely to renew debate about his political stance.

The wife of China's jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has written an open letter to new Chinese leader Xi Jinping to protest the 11-year prison term given to her brother.

A small group of Chinese dissidents forced their way past security guards last week to visit the detained wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and deliver a message of support, one of the dissidents said on Monday.

With an empty chair on the podium, Norway's Nobel Committee braved furious Chinese protests on Friday, preparing to honor the jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in his absence, without handing over its coveted, golden peace medal to a named winner for the first time in over 70 years. Around a third of the 64 invited countries with embassies in Osl...

In the week after Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize for his decades of promoting democratic change in China, dozens of people who openly agreed with his views say they have been detained, roughed up, harassed or kept from leaving their homes.The latest appears to be a woman who Liu has said should win the prize: Ding Zilin, who has fought for ye...

The wife of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, was allowed to meet with her husband on Sunday at the prison in northeastern China where he is serving an 11-year sentence, but she was then escorted back to Beijing and placed under house arrest, a human rights group said. Prison officials had informed Mr. Liu that he won the award -- a...