Liu Xiaboa

The United States ambassador had just written China's foreign minister expressing concern for Liu Xiaobo, the Beijing intellectual imprisoned a year earlier for drafting a pro-democracy manifesto. Now Mr Ding, a deputy in the ministry's American section, was reading the riot act to an American attaché. Mr Ding said he would try to avoid "beco...

US lawmakers have compared China to Nazi Germany as the State Department urged Beijing to free Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, set to receive the honour for his campaign for democratic reforms.     Republican Representative Frank Wolf said China was joining the infamous World War II regime of Adolf Hitler -- as well as the ...

With just two days to go before the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, India has not decided if it will attend the function.The Nobel Peace Prize is being conferred on Chinese dissident Liu Xiaboa, who is in jail.  Members of his family have not been allowed to travel to Oslo to accept the prize on his behalf.  Chinese President Wen Jiab...

The United States ambassador had just written China's foreign minister expressing concern for Liu Xiaobo, the Beijing intellectual imprisoned a year earlier for drafting a pro-democracy manifesto. Now Mr Ding, a deputy in the ministry's American section, was reading the riot act to an American attaché. Mr Ding said he would try to avoid "beco...

US lawmakers have compared China to Nazi Germany as the State Department urged Beijing to free Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo, set to receive the honour for his campaign for democratic reforms.     Republican Representative Frank Wolf said China was joining the infamous World War II regime of Adolf Hitler -- as well as the ...

With just two days to go before the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo, India has not decided if it will attend the function.The Nobel Peace Prize is being conferred on Chinese dissident Liu Xiaboa, who is in jail.  Members of his family have not been allowed to travel to Oslo to accept the prize on his behalf.  Chinese President Wen Jiab...