Tag: Nobel Peace Prize
War of words over a prize for peace
NEWS ANALYSIS: The Norwegian Nobel Committee isn't about to retract its Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Chinese authorities remain angry and...
Why China opposes Liu’s Nobel Prize
GUEST COMMENTARY: China's Ambassador to Norway, Tang Guoqiang, believes the Norwegian Nobel Committee has discredited the Peace Prize it's entrusted with awarding. Tang tries...
Nobel prize ceremony will proceed
The traditional ceremony surrounding the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo will proceed as planned on December 10, even though the Nobel...
More drama over Nobel Peace Prize
The recent awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize has been anything but peaceful, and now a conflict over events leading up to the announcement...
Støre talks with China’s ambassador
A diplomatic drama between Norway and China escalated on Friday, when Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre had a relatively long discussion with China's...
More Nobel fallout, but murder suspect’s release ‘not connected’
China's release of a young Chinese man who confessed to the murder of a Norwegian student in Budapest late last summer is not related...
Rybak also victim of Chinese ire
Norwegian musician Alexander Rybak and an opera ensemble from Norway and China have also fallen victim to Chinese anger over the Nobel Peace Prize....
Chinese cancel another top meeting
Norwegian Fisheries Minister Lisbeth Berg-Hansen was told Tuesday that her Chinese hosts for another top meeting in Beijing this week no longer have time...
Giske keeps faith in free trade deal
Trade Minister Trond Giske said he still believes Norway will sign a free trade deal with China before next summer, even though China is...
China cancels meeting with minister
Norway's fisheries minister, Lisbeth Berg-Hansen, appears to be the first casualty of China's anger over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Chinese...
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