Liu Xia, one of China’s most prominent activists for democracy, has arrived in Germany after a protracted campaign for her release
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A Chinese group awarded its own "peace prize" on Thursday, just a day before the Nobel Committee was set to honour jailed China dissident Liu Xiaobo.
China has invented its answer to the Nobel Peace Prize, the "Confucius Peace Prize" and will bestow it a day before the Nobel.
China unleashed a fresh diatribe on Tuesday ahead of the ceremony honouring Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo.
China said it was difficult to maintain "friendly relations" with Norway, following the Nobel committee’s decision to award the Peace Prize to
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/ 18 November 2010
China is now the only country to detain a Nobel Peace Prize laureate after Burma released Aung San Suu Kyi.
China has asked Japan not to attend a Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honouring Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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/ 25 October 2010
Few, if any, African states have congratulated Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 winner of the Nobel peace prize.
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/ 22 October 2010
Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former Czech president Vaclav Havel joined forces in urging China to free jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo.
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/ 18 October 2010
China’s rise was never going to be entirely peaceful. But recent disputes have shown that the forces that drive China remain poorly understood.
China faced fresh criticism on Thursday over its angry reaction to dissident Liu Xiaobo’s Nobel Prize.
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/ 12 October 2010
The US embassy in Beijing urged China on Tuesday to lift any restrictions on the wife of jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo.
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/ 11 October 2010
Once SA was the kind of country whose leaders were awarded Nobel Peace Prizes. Now we side with governments who crack down on those who get them.
The Nobel Peace Prize for Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo showed the West cannot stomach the idea of China’s rise, state media said on Monday.
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/ 11 October 2010
More than 30 Chinese intellectuals have been detained or placed under house arrest in a crackdown to stifle celebration of the Nobel Peace Prize.
The announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize provoked a furious reaction from authorities, who warned that the decision would hurt relations with Norway.
China’s band dissidents believe awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to one of their own could bring change to the world’s most populous country.
Jailed Chinese pro-democracy activist Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for decades of non-violent struggle for human rights.