Tag: Nobel Prize

• Wednesday, December 8th 2010 - 17:14 UTC

  China creates and awards “Confucius Peace Prize” ahead of Oslo’s ceremony

  

  A newly formed Chinese organization says it will award its own peace prize on Thursday, a day before the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Norway to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

• Tuesday, October 12th 2010 - 06:55 UTC

  Nobel Economics Prize for experts in labour market and jobs

  

  US born Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen, and British-Cypriot Christopher Pissarides, have won the 2010 Nobel economics prize. They were honoured for work on how unemployment, job vacancies and wages are affected by regulation and policy.