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Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, CEO of online news site Rappler. Ressa and Rappler have been fighting multiple court cases filed during former president Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. Photo: EPA-EFE

Philippine news site Rappler allowed to continue operating

Rappler’s co-founder Maria Ressa, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2021, was a vocal critic of former president Rodrigo Duterte and the deadly drug war he launched in 2016.

  • The court overturned a 2022 shutdown order that said Rappler violated constitutional and statutory restrictions on foreign ownership in mass media

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Holding back tears, Yunus takes up Bangladesh top job

Editorial | Tsung-Dao Lee laid the foundation for China’s rise in science

Bangladesh’s interim leader Yunus sworn in, seeks peace, prepares for elections

Yunus, awarded the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize for developing microcredit markets, has been a long-time opponent of former PM Sheikh Hasina.

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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (middle) is sworn in as the chief adviser of the new interim government of Bangladesh in Dhaka. Photo: AFP

New Bangladesh interim leader Yunus heads home, government to be sworn in today

Muhammad Yunus was picked to lead the new interim government, a key demand of demonstrators whose uprising drove PM Sheikh Hasina to resign.

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Nobel laureate Yunus to head Bangladesh interim government

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Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to lead Bangladesh interim government

Decision to form interim government helmed by microfinance pioneer Yunus was taken at meeting of President Shahabuddin and military leaders.

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Muhammad Yunus has been tapped to lead the interim government in Bangladesh. Photo: AP

China’s science community pays tribute to Nobel-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee

Lee died aged 97, after a lifetime of nurturing talent and building China’s sci-tech sector through academic and practical programmes.

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Chinese-American Nobel Prize-winning physicist Tsung-Dao Lee dies at 97

Robert Oppenheimer, known as the father of the atomic bomb, once praised Tsung-Dao Lee as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists of the time.

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Bangladeshi economist’s new trial a political ‘vendetta’ by government: analysts

Charges mark a campaign by authorities to harass and vilify Nobel Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, a long-time rival of PM Sheikh Hasina, supporters note.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus comes out after a court sentenced him to six months in jail for labour law violations in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 1. Photo: AP

Bangladesh court indicts Nobel Peace Prize winner on embezzlement charges

Yunus was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering microcredit to help impoverished people, pleaded not guilty and said authorities were “harassing” him.

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Nobel laureate calls Hong Kong ‘very strong base’ for life science sector

Professor Roger Kornberg of Stanford University also says infrastructure and lab work opportunities are important in attracting scientists.

Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian queen of short stories, dead at 92

Unassuming and modest despite her vast success and mastery of the form, the Booker-winning writer as ‘Canada’s Chekhov’ suffered from dementia in recent years.

Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of the ‘God particle’, dead at 94

It took almost 50 years for the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s theory to be confirmed by a historic experiment at the Large Hadron Collider.

Professor Peter Higgs in front of a photo of the Large Hadron Collider. File photo: TNS

China’s Nobel winner Mo Yan targeted by growing band of online nationalists

Celebrated author, whose real name is Guan Moye, has been accused by Weibo users of smearing China and pandering to the West.

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Nobel Literature Prize winner Mo Yan is under attack on Chinese social media from fervent nationalists. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Chile reopens inquiry into Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda’s 1973 death

In 2017, foreign forensic experts suggested the poet had not died only of cancer, as officially stated, and did not rule out ‘third parties’ being involved.

‘Meritless’: Critics decry conviction of Nobel winner in Bangladesh labour case

Muhammad Yunus, credited with lifting millions out of poverty with his pioneering microfinance bank, was accused of violating labour laws by failing to create a workers’ welfare fund in the company.

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Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner blasts Iran’s ‘tyrannical’ regime

Narges Mohammadi denounced on Sunday a “tyrannical and anti-women religious” government in Iran, in a speech delivered by her children who accepted the honour in her absence at an awards event.

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Narges Mohammadi denounced the Iranian government during a Nobel awards event. The Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner had her twins read her statement. Photo: Narges Mohammadi Foundation/AFP

Opinion | Decolonise the Nobel Prize to truly celebrate human knowledge

The US and the UK alone contribute about 55 per cent of Nobel laureates, underscoring the pervasiveness of Western intellectual culture. A Eurocentric perspective contradicts not only the essence of science, but also the original intent of founder Alfred Nobel.

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Opinion | US-China rivalry: it’s the science, stupid

While we hear a lot about ideology and nationalism, we hear less about how China is promoting scientists and technocrats to senior political posts. It’s clear then that Beijing is dreaming of scientific breakthroughs, not bombing Taipei. And science can bring China and the US together.

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Congo Nobel laureate kicks off presidential campaign with vow to end violence

Renowned doctor Denis Mukwege also told supporters he would fight corruption and end famine in the richly endowed but impoverished country battling high rates of poverty and hunger.

Congolese presidential candidate Denis Mukwege greets supporters outside Kavumu-Bukavu airport on Saturday. Photo: AFP

Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on hunger strike

The women’s rights advocate said the hunger strike was in protest against what she said was the prison’s failure to give her access to medical care. Mohammadi is being held in Tehran’s Evin prison.

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An undated photo of jailed Iranian rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi. Photo: Narges Mohammadi Foundation / AFP

Jailed Iranian activist smuggles out letter of thanks for Nobel Peace Prize

‘Victory is not easy but it is certain,’ said Narges Mohammadi, who has been arrested or imprisoned many times. She has been unable to see her children for seven years.

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Claudia Goldin wins Nobel for work on women in labour market that has ‘vast societal implications’

The Economics Prize, set up by the Swedish central bank, concludes this year’s Nobel awards.

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‘Petty politics’: Nobel winner backs Hong Kong university chief ahead of meeting

Professor Fraser Stoddart calls on council to ignore accusations against Xiang Zhang, saying inquiry is a ‘complete waste of time’.

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Professor Fraser Stoddart received his Nobel Prize in 2016 and joined the University of Hong Kong last month as chair professor of chemistry. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Iranian women’s rights campaigner

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Chinese mRNA researchers celebrate Nobel win for field’s pioneers

It will take up to a decade for China to catch up with global developments in the technology, which is the foundation of Covid-19 vaccines, scientist says.

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Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Narges Mohammadi is one of Iran’s leading human rights activists, who has campaigned for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty. She is currently serving multiple sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison.

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Nobel Prize
A set of annual international awards established by Swedish dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel in 1895. The Nobel Prize recognises achievements in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace.
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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