Oslo (Norway): An imprisoned Chinese dissident was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway Friday as groups of protesters gathered outside the Norwegian Embassy and United Nations offices in Beijing. China has responded furiously since the Nobel committee announced on October 8 that Liu Xiaobo would be its peace prize winner. Officials have repeatedly called Liu a common criminal and declared the award a Western plot against China. Liu, a...
05:50 PM, Dec 10, 2010
New York: Poetry by imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is coming out in the US. Graywolf Press announced that "June Fourth Elegies" will be published in 2012. It is a bilingual edition of verse by the 54-year-old Chinese dissident and literary critic. Liu is serving an 11-year prison sentence for subversion handed down last year after he co-authored an appeal for human rights and political reform. The title...
05:18 PM, Dec 10, 2010
The Jailed Chinese activist will be represented by an empty chair at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Norway on Friday. ...
08:58 AM, Dec 10, 2010
Oslo: When ambassadors, royalty and other VIPs take their seats in Oslo's modernist City Hall on Friday for the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, there will be one chair left empty for this year's winner. Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, a democracy activist, is serving an 11-year prison sentence in China on subversion charges brought after he co-authored a bold call for sweeping changes to Beijing's one-party communist political system. Chinese authorities...
08:39 AM, Dec 10, 2010
New Delhi: India will attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on December 10, 2010. Sources told CNN-IBN that India had confirmed in November that a representative of the country will be attending the ceremony. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to Chinese dissident writer Liu Xiaobo and at least 19 countries including China have already announced they will boycott the ceremony. Sources said that India was...
01:34 PM, Dec 08, 2010
New Delhi: Sources, on Monday, said that India is undecided on attending the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony on Friday. Chinese Dissident Liu Xiaobo has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. China is seeing the countries attending the ceremony as supporters of political dissidence and interference in its internal affairs. A member of the Nobel Prize Committee, in an interview with 'The New York Times' said that India is among the...
07:20 PM, Dec 07, 2010
Washington: Radio Free Asia has launched a question and answer show with Aung San Suu Kyi, giving the people of military-ruled Myanmar the rarest of opportunities to communicate directly with the democracy icon. The US-funded broadcaster is airing weekly Burmese-language segments on Friday evenings with the 65-year-old opposition leader, who has been under house arrest for 15 of the last 21 years and was last released in November. Questions for...
10:36 AM, Dec 07, 2010
Beijing: China said on Thursday that its ties with Norway continue to be strained, following the decision by the Oslo-based Nobel Committee to award this year's peace prize to a jailed Chinese dissident. The Chinese government's anger has been on public display since October, when the Nobel Committee selected activist Liu Xiaobo, who is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion for co-authoring Charter 08, an appeal for democratic reforms in...
07:58 PM, Dec 02, 2010
Nobel Peace Prize winner and pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she is ready for talks with the government. Suu Kyi, who was released by Myanmar authorities on Saturday, called for dialogue and reconciliation while addressing a rally in the capital Yangon. ...
09:04 AM, Nov 15, 2010
Yangon: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for freedom of speech in army-ruled Myanmar on Sunday and urged thousands of supporters to stand up for their rights and not lose heart, indicating she might pursue a political role. "Democracy is when the people keep a government in check. I will accept the people keeping me in check," she said in her first major address since being freed from seven...
11:31 AM, Nov 14, 2010
New Delhi: One of the world's most popular political prisoners and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest on Saturday after 15 years by Myanmar authorities. Suu Kyi was released just a week after her country witnessed its first election in two decades. While Suu Kyi's supporters were pleased, they also reminded the world that she had been let go before, only to be...
08:47 AM, Nov 14, 2010
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04:27 PM, Nov 13, 2010
Yangon: Myanmar's military junta plans to release political activist Aung San Suu Kyi, but the timing is undecided, an official with the country's ministry of information said on Friday. "The plan to release Suu Kyi is on, but the actual plan on the day of her release is not known yet," said the source, who is not allowed to speak officially. The Nobel Peace laureate's house arrest is due to...
01:28 PM, Nov 12, 2010
Beijing: China on Monday blocked European officials from meeting with the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner, cut off her phone communication and canceled meetings with Norwegian officials — acting on its fury over the award. As China retaliated, U.N. human rights experts called on Beijing to free imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo, who was permitted a brief, tearful meeting with his wife Sunday. Liu dedicated the award...
12:11 AM, Oct 12, 2010
Washington: US President Barack Obama has called for the release of this year's Nobel peace prize winner – jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Obama has praised Xiaobo as an eloquent and courageous supporter of human rights and democracy. A poet and literature professor, Xiaobo was sentenced to 11 years in prison in 2009. He's the co-author of Charter 08, a call for political reform and human rights. He had played...
09:58 AM, Oct 09, 2010
Oslo, Norway: Imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo won the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights" - a prize likely to enrage the Chinese government, which had warned the Nobel committee not to honor him. Thorbjoern Jagland, the Norwegian Nobel Committee chairman, said Liu Xiaobo was a symbol for the fight for human rights in China and the government should expect...
02:38 PM, Oct 08, 2010
Mumbai: The Ayodhya verdict has been hailed as a "mature" decision by Bollywood celebrities, who have urged their fans to maintain peace. The Indian film fraternity, which had earlier made a passionate appeal to the people to exercise restraint and maintain calm, gave the ruling a thumbs up. Oscar-nominated director of films like 'Bandit Queen' and 'Elizabeth', Shekhar Kapur gave his opinion on Twitter writing, "Mature handling by courts." Other...
11:55 PM, Sep 30, 2010
New Delhi: The cyberspace was flooded with tweets and blogs for peace within minutes after the long awaited Ayodhya verdict today with Netizens saying it was a "diplomatic" judgment where no one has won and no one has lost. "Peace and calm is the need of hour" -- this was the refrain of tweets in the microblogging site Twitter and blogs, which, said the judgment has tried to "please all"....
10:29 PM, Sep 30, 2010
New Delhi: Appealing to maintain peace and harmony in the wake of Ayodhya verdict, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday cautioned people against "disruptive elements" spreading rumours to create ill will between communities. "You should be particularly careful with regard to rumours that disruptive elements could propagate to create ill-will between communities," Singh said after a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) followed by a Congress Core Group...
08:01 PM, Sep 30, 2010
