OSLO: Supporters and opponents of jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo were mobilizing Thursday on the eve of a ceremony in honor of the absent Nobel Peace Prize laureate that has enraged Beijing. China has kept up a barrage of criticism of the award to Liu who will be unable to attend the ceremony, insisting that …

BEIJING: China’s state media on Wednesday again rounded on the Nobel committee, calling their decision to honor jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo "sheer bravado" and saying it created "tremendous chaos" in the world. Beijing has for the past two months sharply criticized the Oslo-based committee’s decision to give the peace prize to Liu, who was jailed …

OSLO, Norway: China and 18 other countries have declined to attend this year’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony honoring imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, Nobel officials said Tuesday as China unleashed a new barrage deriding the decision. Chinese officials in Beijing called Liu’s backers "clowns" in an anti-Chinese farce — comments that came only three days …

NEW YORK: Jailed Chinese Nobel peace laureate Liu Xiaobo has won another prize, with Human Rights Watch honoring him for risking his life to "protect the dignity" of others. The New York-based rights group named the 54-year-old writer as one of six recipients of its Alison Des Forges Award, named after a leading expert on …