Nobel Peace Prize

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado revived Venezuela's opposition

Married to a constitutional lawyer and mother of three, Machado impresses both experts and ordinary citizens with her work ethic and ability to connect with voters

The Nobel Norwegian Committee awarded Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado the Peace Prize for her fight to restore democracy and defend freedom.

Venezuela’s Machado gets Nobel Peace Prize 2025, drawing White House criticism of ‘politics over peace’

The committee makes its decision ahead of a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal under Trump’s peace initiative

For some foreign leaders, mentioning the prestigious award has become a sign of diplomatic goodwill towards an American president who envisions himself as a peacemaker.

Peace offering? Donald Trump’s Nobel obsession

For some, the prospect of handing the prize to someone who has upended the international order is untenable

An emotional Toshiyuki Mimaki, who survived the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, said the win would give a major boost to his organisation's efforts to demonstrate that the abolition of nuclear weapons was possible.

Japan group of atomic bomb survivors gets Nobel Peace Prize

A Japanese grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2024.

Martti Ahtisaari at a luncheon in Helsinki in 2016. The former Finnish president helped broker peace around the globe, which earned him worldwide recognition and the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Peace laureate and former Finnish president Ahtisaari dies at 86

NOBEL Peace laureate Martti Ahtisaari, who was Finland’s 10th president between 1994 and 2000, died on Monday (Oct 16) at the age of 86.

 Narges Mohammadi is one of Iran’s leading human rights activists, who has campaigned for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty. She is currently serving multiple sentences in Tehran’s Evin Prison amounting to about 12 years.

Jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins 2023 Nobel Peace Prize

Narges Mohammadi, a jailed Iranian women’s rights advocate, won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday (Oct 6).

The prize money has been adjusted up and down in recent years, and the award-givers said it was increasing the amount this year to reflect the Foundation’s stronger financial position.

Nobel Prize award raised by nearly 1 million kronor for 2023

Winners of this year’s Nobel Prizes will get an extra 1 million kronor (S$121,968), taking the total financial reward to 11 million kronor, the Nobel Foundation, which administers the awards, said on ...

The nominations comprise 212 individuals and 93 organisations, the Oslo-based institute said on its website.

305 nominations for Nobel Peace Prize

A total of 305 nominations have been submitted for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said on Wednesday (Feb 22), remaining tight-lipped about the names on the list.

From left: The 2022 Nobel Economics Prize laureates Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig on a display at a press conference to unveil the as winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Monday (Oct 10).

Bernanke, Diamond, Dybvig share Nobel prize in economics

FORMER Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke and two US-based colleagues won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics for their research into banking and financial crises.