https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/523820/feed The latest news and top stories on the Norwegian Nobel Committee. A Oslo-based awarding body, the Norwegian Nobel Committee is dedicated to selecting the recipient of the annual Nobel Peace Prize. Its primary mission involves identifying individuals or organisations that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind in the field of peace. en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse American-born economists ⁠Robert ⁠Hall ⁠and Michael Woodford have won the 2026 Nobel economics prize for their work on how monetary and fiscal policy can help stabilise fluctuations in the economy. Hall, 83, is affiliated with Stanford University in California, and Woodford, 70, with Columbia University in New York. The announcement was made in Sweden’s capital Stockholm, with the winners honoured “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation”. One of their key insights is that... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370605/robert-hall-michael-woodford-win-2026-nobel-prize-economics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370605/robert-hall-michael-woodford-win-2026-nobel-prize-economics?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:05:56 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo While Israel denounces the Nobel committee’s award of the Peace Prize to former UN human rights chief and South African judge Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the United States decides to sanction the entire International Criminal Court. Rarely has a single day shown so starkly where the international order is breaking down. On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Pillay “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”. Within hours, Israel compared her to Joseph... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3370471/us-and-israel-have-gone-full-rogue?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3370471/us-and-israel-have-gone-full-rogue?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:30:08 +0000 Agencies Agencies Former UN human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. The South Africa-born jurist was recognised for her efforts to promote peace and international law. The announcement was made by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo on Friday. Pillay joked that she might “share the prize” with US President Donald Trump if people kept applauding her. “If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,” Pillay said in a video posted to social media by the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/3370342/navi-pillay-wins-2026-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/3370342/navi-pillay-wins-2026-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:09:41 +0000 Agencies Agencies The winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature is Canada’s Anne Carson, an essayist and classicist who brings a modern twist to mysticism and antiquity in her writings about love, desire and despair. The 76-year-old won “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature”, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday. Carson is widely known for her translations of classical Greek literature, which heavily... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3370205/canadas-anne-carson-wins-2026-nobel-prize-literature?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3370205/canadas-anne-carson-wins-2026-nobel-prize-literature?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:07:24 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President ⁠Donald Trump, who waged war ⁠with Iran and has ⁠yet to broker peace in Ukraine, said on Wednesday that he should win the Nobel Peace Prize but acknowledged doubt about his chances. “I don’t know what their decision is going to be,” Trump said of the ‌2026 award, which the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce on Friday. “They have a reputation for maybe not giving it to people like me.” Since his return to the White House last year, Trump has repeatedly said he deserves what may... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3370107/trump-says-he-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-has-doubts-hell-get-it?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3370107/trump-says-he-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-has-doubts-hell-get-it?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:41:05 +0000 Reuters Reuters Scientists Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a long-standing riddle of asymmetric “mirror image” molecules, a discovery hugely important for pharmaceutical manufacturing, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. Soai, 76, is Japanese, and Kagan, 95, is French, and their work built on a discovery by the 19th century French chemist Louis Pasteur. “This is the most exciting day in my life, I am very glad to share this prize with professor Henri Kagan,”... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370059/nobel-chemistry-prize-awarded-henri-b-kagan-and-kenso-soai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3370059/nobel-chemistry-prize-awarded-henri-b-kagan-and-kenso-soai?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:55:49 +0000 Reuters Reuters Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel ⁠Prize in Physics for his work creating an Antarctic observatory of ice to detect high-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that can reveal otherwise inaccessible information about the cosmos. Halzen, 82, realised that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to track such neutrinos, sometimes known as “ghost particles” for the way they pass through the Earth without a trace, only interacting with matter extremely... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369925/francis-halzen-wins-2026-nobel-prize-physics?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369925/francis-halzen-wins-2026-nobel-prize-physics?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:56:51 +0000 Reuters Reuters American Karl ⁠Deisseroth and Germans Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for developing optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control individual nerve cells in the brain. The Nobel Assembly of Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said Deisseroth, 54, Hegemann, 71, and Nagel, 73, had been selected for their “discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics”. “This method [optogenetics] makes it possible to switch on, or off,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369804/nobel-medicine-prize-awarded-3-scientists-optogenetics-development?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3369804/nobel-medicine-prize-awarded-3-scientists-optogenetics-development?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:45:18 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The United States will launch an effort on Monday to “guide” stranded ships from the Iran-gripped Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said, as two ships around the strait reported attacks. Trump gave few details about what could be a sweeping attempt to help hundreds of vessels and some 20,000 seafarers. Iran quickly denounced the move as a ceasefire violation. Trump said in a social media post on Sunday that “neutral and innocent” countries have been affected by the Iran war, and “we have... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3352291/cargo-ship-near-strait-hormuz-reports-being-attacked-iran-makes-new-peace-proposal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3352291/cargo-ship-near-strait-hormuz-reports-being-attacked-iran-makes-new-peace-proposal?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 03 May 2026 17:04:40 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said on Saturday she had “no regrets” about symbolically handing over her Nobel Peace Prize to US President Donald Trump in January. “There is a leader in the world, a head of state in the world who risked the lives of his country’s citizens for Venezuela’s freedom,” she told a news conference in Madrid. Machado presented her Nobel Prize to Trump when she met him in the White House just two weeks after he ordered US forces to attack Caracas and... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3350601/venezuelas-machado-says-no-regrets-about-giving-her-nobel-prize-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3350601/venezuelas-machado-says-no-regrets-about-giving-her-nobel-prize-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:10:19 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporters said on Sunday, as Tehran cracks down on all dissent following nationwide protests and the deaths of thousands at the hands of security forces. The new convictions against Mohammadi come as Iran tries to negotiate with the United States over its nuclear programme to avert a threatened military strike by US President Donald Trump. Iran’s top diplomat insisted... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3342852/iran-sentences-nobel-laureate-narges-mohammadi-over-7-more-years-prison?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3342852/iran-sentences-nobel-laureate-narges-mohammadi-over-7-more-years-prison?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:40:53 +0000 dpa dpa Fifa president Gianni Infantino has apologised over remarks he made about British fans and defended the decision to award a peace prize to US President Donald Trump. Infantino said at last month’s World Economic Forum in Davos that the World Cup in Qatar in 2022 had been special because “for the first time in history no Brit was arrested”. His comments were described as a “cheap” joke at the expense of fans by the Football Supporters’ Association, while the UK’s football policing lead Chief... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/football/article/3342154/fifa-boss-sorry-offending-british-football-fans-defends-trump-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/sport/football/article/3342154/fifa-boss-sorry-offending-british-football-fans-defends-trump-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:34:26 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Donald Trump no longer needs to think “purely of peace” after being snubbed for a Nobel prize, the US president said in comments published on Monday, adding the world will not be safe until Washington controls Greenland. Trump has put the transatlantic alliance to the test with threats to take over Greenland “one way or the other”, with European countries closing ranks against Washington’s designs on the vast Danish territory. German and French leaders denounced as “blackmail” weekend threats by... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340445/trump-abandons-peace-focus-after-nobel-snub-message-norway-pm-world-not-secure?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340445/trump-abandons-peace-focus-after-nobel-snub-message-norway-pm-world-not-secure?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:15:41 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she presented her Nobel Peace Prize medal to US President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday even as he has questioned her credibility to take over her country after the US ousted leader Nicolas Maduro. The Nobel Institute has said Machado could not give her prize to Trump, an honour that he has coveted. Even if it the gesture proves to be purely symbolic, it was extraordinary given that Trump has effectively sidelined Machado, who... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340073/venezuelas-machado-says-she-presented-trump-her-nobel-peace-prize-medal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3340073/venezuelas-machado-says-she-presented-trump-her-nobel-peace-prize-medal?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:07:32 +0000 Reuters Reuters The Norwegian Nobel Institute said the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be transferred, ‌shared, or revoked, following remarks by Venezuelan opposition leader Maria ‍Corina Machado suggesting she might give her 2025 award to US President Donald Trump. In a statement, the institute said the decision to award a Nobel Prize is final and ⁠permanent, citing the statutes of the Nobel Foundation, which do not allow appeals. The organisation also noted that committees awarding the prizes do not comment on the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3339469/nobel-panel-rejects-machados-idea-give-her-peace-prize-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3339469/nobel-panel-rejects-machados-idea-give-her-peace-prize-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:02:38 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse There has been no contact with Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi since her arrest in Iran at the end of last week, her supporters said on Sunday, urging the Islamic republic to release the campaigner and dozens of others arrested alongside her. Mohammadi, who won the 2023 Nobel Prize, was detained on Friday after addressing a memorial ceremony in the eastern city of Mashhad for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead earlier this month. According to Mashhad prosecutor... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3336414/no-contact-iran-nobel-winner-arrest-supporters-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3336414/no-contact-iran-nobel-winner-arrest-supporters-say?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:28:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Iranian security forces on Friday detained the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists in an arrest condemned as “brutal” by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Mohammadi, who was granted temporary leave from prison in December 2024, was detained along with eight other activists at the ceremony for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who was found dead in his office last week, her foundation wrote on social media. Those arrested at the ceremony in the eastern... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3336298/iran-detains-nobel-prize-winner-narges-mohammadi-brutal-arrest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/middle-east/article/3336298/iran-detains-nobel-prize-winner-narges-mohammadi-brutal-arrest?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:08:41 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Nobel Peace laureate Maria Corina Machado said on Thursday that the United States helped her get to Norway from hiding in Venezuela, expressing support for US military action against her country and vowing to return home. Machado, who vanished in January after challenging the rule of President Nicolas Maduro, emerged on a hotel balcony in Oslo to cheering supporters early Thursday after several days of confusion over her whereabouts. “We did get support from the United States government to get... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335989/after-months-hiding-venezuelas-nobel-peace-prize-winner-machado-emerges-norway?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335989/after-months-hiding-venezuelas-nobel-peace-prize-winner-machado-emerges-norway?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:03:26 +0000 Reuters Reuters Democracies must be prepared to fight for freedom to survive, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said on Wednesday, in a speech delivered by her daughter during a ceremony Machado could not attend. The Venezuelan opposition leader said that the prize held profound significance, not only for her country but for the world. “It reminds the world that democracy is essential to peace,” she said, via her daughter Ana Corina Sosa Machado. “And the most important lesson Venezuelans can... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335940/venezuelas-machado-urges-global-fight-democracy-after-nobel-peace-prize-win?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335940/venezuelas-machado-urges-global-fight-democracy-after-nobel-peace-prize-win?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:14:03 +0000 Reuters Reuters Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado will not receive the Nobel Peace Prize in person at Wednesday’s award ceremony in Oslo, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute said on Wednesday, with her current whereabouts unknown. Machado, 58, was due to receive the award at a ceremony at Oslo City Hall in the presence of King Harald, Queen Sonja and Latin American leaders including Argentine President Javier Milei and Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa. The ceremony starts at 1pm (8pm... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335810/machados-nobel-press-conference-called-peace-prize-winners-whereabouts-unknown?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3335810/machados-nobel-press-conference-called-peace-prize-winners-whereabouts-unknown?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:37:19 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has vowed to go to Norway to pick up her Nobel Peace Prize, defying a warning from Caracas that she would be a fugitive if she did so. The head of the Nobel Institute, Kristian Berg Harpviken, on Saturday said that Machado – who lives in hiding in her country – promised him she would make the ceremony, set to take place in Oslo on Wednesday. “I was in contact with Machado last night [Friday] and she confirms that she will be in Oslo for the... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3335478/venezuelas-machado-defies-warning-vows-attend-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3335478/venezuelas-machado-defies-warning-vows-attend-nobel-peace-prize-ceremony?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:40:22 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo Donald Trump is reportedly furious that he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead, it went to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. But if the US president could see beyond his megalomania for a moment, he would realise that the Norwegian Nobel Committee has bent over backwards to placate his administration. The far-right Machado, after all, was nominated by Trump’s own Secretary of State Marco Rubio when he was still a senator, and former national security adviser and now US... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3328789/nobel-peace-prize-should-now-be-called-nobel-war-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/opinion/world-opinion/article/3328789/nobel-peace-prize-should-now-be-called-nobel-war-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Oct 2025 01:30:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Nicolas Maduro’s time is up but he can still leave power peacefully, Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said in an interview from hiding on Monday. Offering a barbed olive branch to Venezuela’s long-lasting leader, 58-year-old Machado said President Maduro could get personal guarantees if he were to cede power. “Maduro currently has the opportunity to move toward a peaceful transition,” the opposition figurehead told Agence France-Presse as a flotilla of US warships... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3328919/venezuelas-nobel-laureate-machado-urges-president-maduro-cede-power-peacefully?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3328919/venezuelas-nobel-laureate-machado-urges-president-maduro-cede-power-peacefully?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Oct 2025 06:01:38 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Venezuela said on Monday it had closed its embassy in Oslo, days after opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a statement, the Venezuelan government, which has not commented on Machado’s prize, said that the closure was part of a restructuring of its foreign service. Caracas also closed its embassy in Australia while opening diplomatic outposts in Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso, countries it considers “strategic partners in the fight” against “hegemonic... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3328877/venezuela-closes-norway-embassy-after-opposition-leader-machado-awarded-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/americas/article/3328877/venezuela-closes-norway-embassy-after-opposition-leader-machado-awarded-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Oct 2025 23:24:50 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics on Monday for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth” including the key principle of creative destruction. The winners represent contrasting but complementary approaches to economics. Mokyr is an economic historian who delved into long-term trends using historical sources, while Howitt and Aghion relied on mathematics to explain how creative destruction works. Dutch-born Mokyr, 79, is from... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328823/mokyr-aghion-howitt-win-2025-nobel-economics-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328823/mokyr-aghion-howitt-win-2025-nobel-economics-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:54:38 +0000 Reuters Reuters Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who currently lives in hiding, won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting dictatorship in the country, in a move the White House criticised as a snub to US President Donald Trump. “President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives. He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will,” White House spokesperson Steven Cheung... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328534/venezuelas-machado-wins-2025-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3328534/venezuelas-machado-wins-2025-nobel-peace-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:05:30 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse US President Donald Trump’s obsession with winning the Nobel Peace Prize next month may have hit a hitch - the stubborn independence of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, which insisted that it cannot be swayed. Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has made it clear he wants the prestigious accolade, which his Democratic rival Barack Obama won to the surprise of many shortly after taking office in 2009. The 79-year-old billionaire has taken every opportunity to say he “deserves it”,... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325300/trumps-push-nobel-peace-prize-wont-sway-us-says-committee?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325300/trumps-push-nobel-peace-prize-wont-sway-us-says-committee?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:02:20 +0000