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Jailed Nobel’s wife pens open letter to China’s President Xi

June 22, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The wife of China’s jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner has written an open letter to new Chinese leader Xi Jinping to protest an 11-year prison term given to her brother, the family’s lawyer said June 14. In the letter, Liu Xiaobo’s wife Liu Xia said the sentencing […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2013, Beijing, China, Chinese Dream, Jailed Nobel, Liu Hui, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, President Xi, Vol 32 No 26 | June 22 - June 28, Xi Jinping, letter

China honors Putin with Confucius Prize

December 17, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Alexa Olesen The Associated Press Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin BEIJING (AP) — The sponsors of a would-be Chinese alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize held their second award ceremony on Friday, handing a gold Confucius statue and a certificate meant for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to a pair of exchange students, an […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: 2011, Beijing, Belarus, Betty Williams, China International Peace Research Center, Chinese, Confucius Peace Prize, Czech Republic President Vaclav Havel, Desmond Tutu, Jody Williams, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Committee, Nobel Peace Prize, Qiao Damo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Shirin Ebadi, Vol 30 No 51 | December 17 - December 23

Controversial Ore. congressman Wu gets a primary challenger

April 30, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEAVERTON, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon congressman who has acknowledged inappropriate behavior during the 2010 election campaign will face a primary challenge in the next election.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, 2011, 2012, Afghanistan, BEAVERTON, Chinese American, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Chinese Nobel Peace Prize, Controversial Ore, David Wu, Democratic Rep, Erik Dorey, Iraq, Liu Xiaobo, Patriot Act, Portland Community College, Stephen Ying, Vol 30 No 18 | April 30 - May 6

China anti-Nobel campaign is winning it no friends

December 16, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — China’s campaign to vilify this year’s recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and sabotage the award ceremony showed signs of backfiring

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Amnesty International, Beijing, CNN, China, Chinese Embassy, Confucius Peace Prize, Internet-savvy Chinese, Li Heping, Liu Xiaobo, NRK, Nobel Peace Prize, Salil Shetty, Serbia, Taiwanese Vice President Lien Chan, Tan Changliu, Vol 29 No 51 | December 18 - December 24

Mongolian activist’s son: China police took mother

December 8, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING, China (AP) — Chinese police detained the wife of the co-founder of a Mongolian separatist movement and raided the family bookstore just days before the

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Beijing, China, Communist Party, Cultural Revolution, Genghis Khan, Govruud Huuchinhuu, Inner Mongolia, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize, Southern Mongolian Democratic Alliance, Tiananmen Square, Vol 29 No 50 | December 11 - December 17, Wei Lesi, Zhou Yongkang, letter, reunion

US official says China’s president will visit in January

October 28, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING, China (AP)—China’s President Hu Jintao is scheduled to visit the United States in January, a senior U.S. official said Thursday, Oct. 21st in

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder, Beijing, China, Chinese Foreign Ministry, Communist Party, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Hu Jintao, Liu Xiaobo, Ma Zhaoxu, Muslim Uighur, Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama, President Hu Jintao, South Korea, Taiwan, United States, Vol 29 No 44 | October 30 - November 5

Furious China blocks visit to Nobel winner’s wife

October 14, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday blocked European officials from meeting with the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner, cut off her phone communication

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Beijing, Chinese Embassy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Furious China, Geir Lundestad, HRIC, Hillel Neuer, Human Rights, Liu Xiaobo, Martin Nesirky, Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, Poland, Pu Zhiqiang, Twitter Sunday, Vol 29 No 42 | October 16 - October 22, World Expo

Contender for Nobel prize is in Chinese prison

October 7, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BEIJING (AP) — When the police came for Liu Xiaobo on a December night nearly two years ago, they didn’t tell the dissident author why he was being taken away.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, AIDS, Andrew Nathan, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Australian National University, Beijing, China, Chinese Communist Party, Columbia University, Dalai Lama, International Studies, Internet God, Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Institute, South African, Velvet Revolution, Vol 29 No 41 | October 9 - October 15, Wan Yanhai, Xu Youyu, Zhou Duo, Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, letter

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