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Korean literature translator and naturalised South Korean citizen Brother Anthony says “readability is all that counts” when it comes to translation. Photo: Instagram/@notsokoreanpodcast
Books and literature

Literary but not literal, translator introduces Korean writers to the world

Award-winning translator Brother Anthony ponders Nobel Prize hype and the complexities of translating Korean poems and novels into English.

Science

Wilczek’S Multiverse | From physics to mind: where AI really came from

Science

China’s quantum computing leap risks stumbling into a talent-innovation void

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Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s student protesters demand president’s resignation

They are urging the president to resign over his comments that appeared to call into doubt former PM Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in August.

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Security personnel stand guard in front of the Bangabhaban, the residence and workplace of President Mohammed Shahabuddin in Dhaka. Photo: Reuters
South Korea

Nobel winner Han Kang’s book faces backlash from South Korean parents

More than 10,000 people have signed a petition demanding the book’s removal from school libraries.

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Opinion | Bomb survivors’ Nobel Prize a reminder to world on edge of nuclear war

As the world lurches towards nuclear conflict, we cannot afford to forget the catastrophe unleashed on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Books and literature

Han Kang wins Nobel Prize for Literature

South Korean author Han Kang has made history as the first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

US-China relations

Chinese economists call for reforms of ‘critical’ system after Nobel Prize

The winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics published extensively on the relationships between political and economic institutions and wealth.

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Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson win 2024 Nobel Prize in economics

The award concludes a week of prizes including medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and the coveted peace prize.

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Japan

Hiroshima bomb survivors find sense of duty after Nobel win

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Japan

Nobel Prize an important reminder, Hiroshima locals say

With war in Ukraine and the Middle East, Hiroshima residents hope that the world never forgets the atomic bombing of 1945.

Visitors pray in front of the Cenotaph for the Victims of the Atomic Bomb at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, the day after the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations (Nihon Hidankyo) won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize, in Hiroshima, Japan, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
Japan

Japanese atomic bomb survivor group wins 2024 Nobel Peace Price

Nihon Hidankyo was awarded the prize for its decades of efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons.

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South Korea

South Koreans welcome Nobel Literature Prize win

Books and literature

South Korean author Han Kang wins 2024 Nobel Literature Prize

Han was awarded the prize ‘for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life’.

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Han Kang is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize. Photo: Reuters
Medicine

Nobel chemistry prize awarded to scientist trio for protein structure work

Winners of this year’s Nobel will receive a cash prize and medal on December 10, followed by a lavish banquet in Stockholm city hall.

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First handed out in 1901, 15 years after Nobel’s death, Nobel prizes are awarded for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. Photo: Reuters
Science

‘Godfather of AI’ among 2 scientists to win 2024 Nobel Prize in physics

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were given the honour for pioneering work in artificial intelligence development.

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Biomedicine: Science

Nobel Prize winners recognised for ‘groundbreaking’ microRNA discovery

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United States

Nobel Prize in medicine honours 2 Americans for discovery of microRNA

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun’s research revealed a new principle of gene regulation essential for multicellular organisms, including humans.

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Nobel Committee Secretary General Thomas Perlmann speaks to the media in front of a picture of this year’s laureates Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkum during the announcement of the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Photo: AFP
United States

Jimmy Carter celebrates 100 years with tributes from Georgia to the White House

Despite living in hospice care, Carter remains engaged in politics, and is eager to vote for Vice-President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

Architecture and design

Finding the beauty in things: the profound lessons of physicist Frank Wilczek

Wilczek’s book, A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature’s Deep Design, argues that beauty is the universe’s organising principle – and 2 Hong Kong architects were captivated

The Philippines

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.

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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
Bangladesh

Holding back tears, Yunus takes up Bangladesh top job

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US-China relations

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

Nobel Prize-winning physicist, who died this month aged 97, advanced science education in China and promoted cooperation with the US.

Bangladesh

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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Bangladesh

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 Muhammad Yunus, who was recommended by Bangladeshi student leaders as the head of the interim government in Bangladesh, walks at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport on August 7. Photo: Reuters
Bangladesh

Nobel laureate Yunus to head Bangladesh interim government

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Bangladesh

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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Science

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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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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