Nobel laureate Kim Dae Jung dead

October 12th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - The shared Nobel economics prize for Elinor Ostrom of the US Monday further underscored that 2009 was a record-year for women prize winners. Ostrom, of Indiana University in Bloomington, became the first woman to win a Nobel prize for economics.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Britain has ignored Iran's savage suppression of opposition in order to safeguard talks on its nuclear program, claimed the latter country's only Nobel Laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi. The Times quoted Dr.

September 1st, 2009 DHAKA - Micro-credit pioneer and Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has been invited to deliver a lecture in the Indian parliament during its winter session this year. Yunus will deliver the second Professor Hiren Mukerjee Memorial Annual Parliamentary Lecture Dec 9 at the Central Hall of Parliament House, the Yunus Centre announced here Monday.

August 23rd, 2009 SEOUL - Thousands of South Koreans and international delegates attended the state funeral for former president and Nobel peace laureate Kim Dae Jung that began at Seoul's national assembly Sunday. Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was among the guests at the memorial services for Kim, who died aged 83 last Tuesday.

August 23rd, 2009 SEOUL - Tens of thousands of South Koreans and international delegates attended the state funeral for former president and Nobel peace laureate Kim Dae Jung Sunday, which also prompted talks with North Korean envoys after months of stalled negotiations. Kim, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for achieving a detente with North Korea and bringing democratic reform to South Korea, died aged 83 last Tuesday, as a result of pneumonia and related illnesses.

August 21st, 2009 SEOUL - A delegation sent by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il arrived Friday in Seoul to pay respects to the late South Korean president Kim Dae Jung, who won the 2000 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to reconcile the two Koreas. The visit was the first to South Korea by high-ranking North Korean functionaries since the inauguration of conservative South Korean President Lee Myung Bak in February last year.

August 20th, 2009 Body of SKorea's Kim moved into place for funeralSEOUL, South Korea — The body of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has been transported to the National Assembly, where it will lie in state until his funeral Sunday. Kim died Tuesday at age 85, unleashing an outpouring of grief for a man who campaigned for democracy at home and won the Nobel Peace Prize for a historic summit with rival North Korea.

August 18th, 2009 Report: Former South Korean president diesSEOUL, South Korea — Yonhap news agency says former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung has died. The 85-year-old leader had been hospitalized since last month for pneumonia.

August 18th, 2009 Former South Korean president diesSEOUL, South Korea — Kim Dae-jung, who as a longtime opposition leader survived assassination attempts and a death sentence to become president of South Korea, and whose unflagging efforts to reconcile with communist North Korea earned him the Nobel Peace Prize, died Tuesday, hospital officials said. He was 85. Kim, who had been hospitalized with pneumonia since last month, died shortly after 1:40 p.m.

August 18th, 2009 SEOUL - South Koreans Tuesday mourned the death of the country's former president and Nobel laureate Kim Dae Jung. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate died at 1.42 p.m.

August 9th, 2009 Nobel laureate urges Iran to release detaineesSEOUL, South Korea —Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on Sunday urged Iran's government to release detained activists and citizens accused of involvement in the country's postelection unrest, saying the president must "listen to the people's voice." Hundreds of people in Iran have been detained following massive demonstrations protesting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June 12 re-election. On Sunday, Iran's police chief acknowledged that some of the detained protesters were abused in custody, but said the death of some prisoners was caused by illness not torture.

August 4th, 2009 Knut Hamsun museum opens in north NorwayOSLO — Crown Princess Mette-Marit has opened Norway's first museum dedicated to Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun, whose literary talent was overshadowed by his later Nazi sympathies. More than 5,000 visitors attended the ceremony at Hamaroey, 200 miles (320 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle on Tuesday, the 150th anniversary of Hamsun's birth.

July 16th, 2009 Ex-SKorean leader put on respirator, not in dangerSEOUL, South Korea — Ailing former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, a Nobel laureate, has been put on a respirator because of complications from pneumonia but is not in "immediate danger," hospital officials said Thursday. The 85-year-old ex-dissident served as president from 1998 to 2003 and had a "Sunshine Policy" of encouraging reconciliation with wartime foe North Korea, which culminated in a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in 2000.

July 13th, 2009 BONN - Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi called Monday for European nations to open direct talks with Tehran rather than criticise its policies from afar. "They would be able to prove this way that they are not just paying lip service to human rights but acting in pursuit of them," said Ebadi in Bonn during a visit to the offices of the broadcaster Deutsche Welle.

June 13th, 2009 LONDON - Nobel laureate Amartya Sen was conferred the honorary Doctor of Letters degree by the University of Cambridge. The degree was conferred on him on Friday by Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, at the 800th Anniversary Honorary Degree Congregation at the Senate House in Cambridge.