Nobels

Asia Pacific Jul 14, 2017

Late Chinese Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo 'had no enemies, no hatred'

During a hunger strike days before the Chinese army crushed the Tiananmen Square prodemocracy movement on June 4, 1989, the man who would become China's best known dissident, Liu Xiaobo, declared: "We have no enemies." When being tried in 2009 on charges of inciting subversion ...

World / Politics Jul 13, 2017

Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo dies; supporters quietly fight efforts to erase his legacy

Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has died, the government of the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, where he was being treated for late-stage liver cancer, said on Thursday. The Shenyang legal bureau said in a brief statement on its website that Liu had suffered ...