Tag: Prize
Republicans nominate Trump for Nobel peace prize
A group of 18 House Republicans has nominated President Donald Trump for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on North Korea.
“Although North...
George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo wins Booker prize
LONDON: American author George Saunders won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction Tuesday for “Lincoln in the Bardo,” a polyphonic symphony of a...
Palestinian primary teacher wins $1 million Global Teacher Prize
A Palestinian primary school teacher who encourages students to renounce violence has won a $1 million prize for teaching excellence, beating out 8,000 applicants...
Jailed Saudi lawyer wins prestigious human right prize
A Saudi lawyer imprisoned in his country for defending human rights in the oil-rich kingdom has been awarded a prestigious rights prize in Geneva.
Walid...
Merkel has ‘good chance’ of winning Nobel Peace Prize: report
German Chancellor Angela Merkel could win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the influential Bild newspaper said Friday, as the leader is lauded worldwide for...
Malala Yousafzai among winners of 2013 UN human rights prize
Malala Yousafzai, a well-known Pakistani student activist, is among the winners of the 2013 United Nations Human Rights Prize, it was announced Friday.
The prize,...
Malala has done ‘nothing’ to earn rights prize: Taliban
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on Thursday said Malala Yousafzai had done "nothing" to deserve the prestigious EU rights award and vowed to try again to...
Malala Yousaf zai wins EU’s Sakharov human rights prize
A Pakistani school girl and campaigner Malala Yousaf zai, who was shot in the head by the Taliban, won the EU's Sakharov human rights...
2 Americans, German-American win Nobel medicine prize
Two Americans and a German-American won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discovering how key substances are transported within cells, a process...
French prize awarded to Malala Yousufzai
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius welcomed Ziauddin Yousufzai on Wednesday and reaffirmed France’s commitment to women’s right and solidarity with the values demonstrated by...
Farooqi’s Between Clay and Dust shortlisted for Man Asian Literary Prize
Pakistani writer Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s book Between Clay and Dust is among the five books shortlisted for Asia’s most prestigious literary prize on Wednesday....
ATP Tour Opposes US Open Move, Prize Money Distribution
The men’s tennis tour said it opposes a switch of the U.S. Open final to a Monday and wants a shake-up of prize-money distribution...
4 Pakistanis long-listed for DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
Four Pakistani names are among the list of 16 authors whose books have been long-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature for...
US duo win Nobel Economics Prize for ‘match-making’
US scholars Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for their work on the functioning of markets and how...
Nobel ambitions?
Prizes, here and there
Did the Nobel peace prize die, really, the day Henry Kissinger (‘73) got one? From that fateful day, all the other...
US tipped again for Nobel Economics Prize, as Europe lags
Americans top the list of favourites for Monday’s Nobel Economics Prize, an award that increasingly rarely seems to go to a European.
The European Union...
China netizens applaud Mo Yan’s Nobel prize
Millions of China's microblog users broadly welcomed Thursday's award of the Nobel Literature Prize to Mo Yan, with many claiming an achievement for the...
