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China Censors Scrub Emoji Tributes To Nobel Winner Liu Xiaobo
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.
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China Releases Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo With Terminal Cancer: Lawyer
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.
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Chinese Nobel Medicine Winner, 84, 'Not Really Surprised'
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.
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China Nobel Winner Praises Communist Party
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.
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China's jailed Nobel winner's wife writes open letter to Premier Xi Jingping
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.
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Chinese dissidents in rare visit to Nobel laureate's wife
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.
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Empty chair for Chinese winner at Nobel ceremony
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...
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After peace prize, China targets winner's friends
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...
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Wife detained after visiting Nobel winner
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...
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China Censors Scrub Emoji Tributes To Nobel Winner Liu Xiaobo
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.
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China Releases Nobel Laureate Liu Xiaobo With Terminal Cancer: Lawyer
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.
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Chinese Nobel Medicine Winner, 84, 'Not Really Surprised'
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.
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China Nobel Winner Praises Communist Party
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.
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China's jailed Nobel winner's wife writes open letter to Premier Xi Jingping
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.
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Chinese dissidents in rare visit to Nobel laureate's wife
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.
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Empty chair for Chinese winner at Nobel ceremony
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...
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After peace prize, China targets winner's friends
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...
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Wife detained after visiting Nobel winner
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...
