Tag Archives: Nobel Prize

MANILA: A Cambodian who has devoted his life to documenting the killing of almost two million of his countrymen in the 1970s was named Thursday among the winners of this year’s Magsaysay Awards, widely regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel prize. Youk Chhang, 57, was given the award for ...

STOCKHOLM: An Afghan music institute that has empowered girls in the war-torn country and metal pioneers Metallica shared the Polar Music Prize, often called music’s Nobel. The laureates will each receive one million Swedish kronor (101,000 euros, $125,000) at a televised gala in Stockholm on June 14 in the presence ...

LONDON: Dozens of Rohingya women and children desperate to flee the violence in Myanmar are drowning while attempting to escape to Bangladesh by boat. A Bangladeshi border guard, who asked not to be identified, told, guards had retrieved eight bodies on the Bangladeshi side of the Naf River on Wednesday ...

ISLAMABAD: The adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan Sartaj Aziz has said that United States president-elect Donald Trump would deserve the Nobel Prize if he succeeds in resolving the Kashmir dispute. Responding to the offer of US president-elect Donald Trump to mediate between Pakistan and India, Aziz said: “Trump would deserve ...