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MissA

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Q: "Asian Nobel prize"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21235618

Any thoughts?

13 years 32 weeks ago in Culture - China

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Scandinavian

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Great initiative. A shame it comes across with the title "Asian Nobel prize" because that does set the mood prior to reading the article to "yet another shameless copy" when in fact this is not quite the case

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The ultimate irony would be if they gave an award to the Dalai Lama...

mattsm84:

Well, the ultimate irony is that they give a prize for rule of law.

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Traveler:

Oh yeah. China would be in the running for that one. International Law of the Sea, maybe...

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mattsm84

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Don't they already have one? Remember the Confucius Prize from like a year ago. What ever happened to that?

ohChina:

They gave that Confucius Peace Prize to Putin......

13 years 25 weeks ago

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mattsm84:

Oh well that makes sense. I know whenever I think peace prize my mind automatically jumps to Russian autocrats and former KGB operatives.

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