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You are here: Home / Archives for Nobel Peace Prize

Myanmar’s parliament blocks changes to constitution

July 11, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Aye Aye Win Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s parliament voted against several constitutional amendments June 25, ensuring that the military’s veto power remains intact and that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi cannot become president in an election this year. The legislature ended a 3-day debate on proposed changes to the 2008 […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2008, 2010, 2015, Associated Press, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Democratic Rep, East Asia, Joe Crowley, Michael Quinlan, Myanmar, National League, Nobel Peace Prize, President Thein Sein, Republican Rep, Steve Chabot, Tin Soe, Vol 34 No 29 | July 11 - July 17

Nobel: two rival nations, one message of peace

October 19, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Katy Daigle Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — One is Muslim, the other Hindu. One a Pakistani, the other Indian. One a school girl just starting out in life, the other a man with decades of experience.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Alfred Nobel, Ashis Nandy, Associated Press, East Timor, Independent Pakistani, India, Islamabad, Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Committee, Nobel Peace Prize, Oeivind Stenersen, Oslo-based Nobel, Salil Tripathi, South Asia, Thorbjoern Jagland, Vol 33 No 43 | October 18 - October 24, Yitzhak Rabin, poverty

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

Myanmar apologizes for violence against monks

December 15, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Aye Aye Win The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s government apologized for a violent crackdown on Buddhist monks and other foes of a copper mine in northwest Myanmar, which was the biggest use of force against demonstrators since reformist President Thein Sein took office last year.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chinese, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize, President Thein Sein, Religious Affairs Minister Thura Myint Maung, Shin Wirathu, Vol 31 No 51 | December 15 - December 21, YANGON

Ex-junta prisoner Suu Kyi takes office in Myanmar

May 12, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Aye Aye Win and Todd Pitman The Associated Press NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) ― Aung San Suu Kyi capped a tenacious, decades-long journey from political prisoner to office holder in long-repressed Myanmar as the country’s main opposition party moved its struggle for democratic rule inside government for the first time.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, 2012, 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Maung Zarni, Myanmar, NAYPYITAW, NLD, Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, President Thein Sein, Soe Aung, State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Suu Kyi-led, Vol 31 No 20 | May 12 - May 18, censorship

Filmmaker Robert Lieberman captures the life and struggles of Burmese citizens in “They Call It Myanmar”

April 6, 2012 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Shelley Seale for Northwest Asian Weekly “They Call It Myanmar” is the story of Burma, told with stunning footage shot clandestinely over a two-year period by filmmaker Robert H. Lieberman. The film provides an astonishing and intimate look at what has been one of the most isolated countries in the world, showing the everyday […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features Tagged With: 2012, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Cyclone Nargis, Ethiopia, Filmmaker Robert Lieberman, General Aung San, Metro Cinemas, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize, Northwest Asian Weekly, Seattle, Shelley Seale, Third World, University District, Vol 31 No 15 | April 7 - April 13, culture

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

Jailed China Nobel winner’s wife still silenced

October 8, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Gillian Wong The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — In a quiet, leafy neighborhood of Beijing, a woman has been living in enforced isolation in her book-lined, fifth-floor apartment. Her apparent misdeed: being married to a Nobel Peace Prize winner the Chinese government calls a criminal. In the year since jailed democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, AP, Associated Press, Awarding Liu Xiaobo, Beijing, Chinese, Geir Lundestad, Jailed China Nobel, Liu Xiaoxuan, Nobel Peace Prize, Norwegian Nobel Committee, Tiananmen Square, Vol 30 No 41 | October 8 – October 14, Wang Songlian, Wu Wei, Yu Jie, Zeng Jinyan

The Dalai Lama’s greatest challenge: trying to retire when the worshippers refuse to accept it

July 9, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

DHARMSALA, India (AP) — In a lifetime spent advocating the plight of his Tibetan community, promoting inter-religious harmony

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2011, Chazod Nawang Tenpa, China, Chinese, DHARMSALA, Dalai Lamas, Dorjee Tseten, His Holiness, India, Kalon Tripa, Lobsang Sangay, New Zealand, Nobel Peace Prize, Tenzin Tsundue, United States, Vol 30 No 28 | July 9 - July 15, attention

Myanmar deports Michelle Yeoh over Suu Kyi movie

June 30, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The military-backed government of Myanmar has deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie, officials said last Tuesday. The Malaysian actress arrived in the country’s main city, Yangon, on June 22 and was deported the same day because she was on […]

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Features, Profiles Tagged With: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi, Chinese, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, James Bond, Michelle Yeoh, Miss Malaysia, Myanmar, Nobel Peace Prize, Nyan Win, Pierce Brosnan, Thailand, Vol 30 No 27 | July 2 - July 8, YANGON

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