Five Chinese activists defied security and made a brief visit to dissident Liu Xiaobo’s wife Liu Xia, who has been under house arrest since her husband was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago.

We cannot let trade opportunities with China blind us to our responsibility to support human rights activists there, writes Colm O’Gorman

Campaign groups want Western leaders to consider human rights when trading with China, writes Caroline O’Doherty

Hundreds of Chinese have flooded US President Barack Obama’s Google+ page, apparently taking advantage of a glitch in China’s censorship system to post about human rights and green cards.

Enda Kenny was branded a “coward” yesterday for failing to press visiting Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping harder on human rights abuses.

Eamon Gilmore was under fire last night for “crudely” comparing the plight of human rights abuse victims in China with potential business deals.

Not so much Enter The Dragon, more like Enda The Dragon — well, that’s how the Taoiseach would like to think of it any way.

The English pronunciation of the Chinese vice-president’s name is “She” — and the Government’s maxim for this trip is: “Xi, Who Must Be Obeyed.”

China’s heir apparent Xi Jinping invited the Taoiseach to Beijing next month as Enda Kenny heralded a new relationship between Ireland and the economic superpower.

The Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has welcomed Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping to Ireland at the start of his three-day official visit.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore are being urged to deliver a clear and forceful message on human rights when they meet the Chinese Vice President later today.

China’s vice-president Xi Jinping should be “forcefully” questioned by ministers on his country’s attitude to human rights, during a three-day visit to Ireland, said Amnesty International.

In the midst of all our economic problems, the three-day visit of Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping to this country is much more than a welcome diversion.

The Irish Government has today been urged to deliver a forceful message to Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping over human rights abuses during a three-day visit.

A GROUP of Chinese academics has awarded its version of the Nobel Peace Prize to Vladimir Putin, pointing to the Russian Prime Minister as “outstanding in keeping world peace”.

THE Arab Spring is the focus of speculation over this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, with an Afghan human rights activist and the European Union as possible outsiders.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon may have almost blown his chances of re-election by antagonising Moscow over the Balkans in 2008 but he has since focused on pleasing the US, Russia and other big UN powers, making his re-election tomorrow a certainty.

TOXIC bean sprouts, filthy cooking oil, drug-tainted pork: The relentless headlines in Chinese media have churned up queasy feelings for months about the dangers lurking in the nation’s dinner bowls.

AMNESTY International’s 50th anniversary report has censured the Holy See over human rights obligations for the first time — treating it just like any other state.

China blocked one of its most famous contemporary artists from taking a flight to Hong Kong today and police later raided his Beijing studio, the man’s assistant said.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it had received a record 241 nominations for the 2011 peace prize.

The continued use of torture, illegal detention, censorship and other offences means China has failed to deliver on its first human rights action plan, a human rights group said today.

The Chinese prison where Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo is held has suspended visits by his family members and his wife remains under house arrest, a week after the award ceremony, a human rights group said today.

Clapping solemnly, dignitaries in Norway paid tribute to Nobel Peace Prize winner, imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo – with an empty chair.

Chinese security agents launched a wide-ranging clampdown on dissidents today, hours before the award Nobel Peace Prize award to imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo.

China is awarding its own peace prize to counter the Nobel that recognised imprisoned democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo.

CHINA and 18 other countries will boycott this week’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in protest at the award going to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

China has set up its own peace prize and plans to award it on Thursday, the day before the Nobel Committee honours an imprisoned Chinese dissident in a move that has enraged Beijing.

China and 18 other countries will boycott this week's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in protest at the award going to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

China's crackdown before next week’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony has widened to block a well-known artist and an economist who is more than 80 years old from travelling overseas.

Only one of about 140 Chinese activists invited by the wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has confirmed he will attend the prize ceremony in Oslo, according to an organiser of the guest list.

The Nobel Peace Prize may not be handed out this year because no one from jailed Chinese dissident award-winner Liu Xiaobo’s family is likely to attend the ceremony, the award committee said today.

SEVERAL Western diplomats said China is pressuring European governments to shun the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony next month for imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo and not to make any statements in support of him.

Several Western diplomats said China is pressuring European governments to shun the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony next month for imprisoned democracy activist Liu Xiaobo and not to make any statements in support of him.

THE awarding of the Nobel Peace prize to a brave Chinese human rights campaigner will hopefully aid the process of ridding China of the cruel and bloody dictatorship that has ruled the country for decades.

THE wife of jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo slammed the government on Wednesday for keeping her under “illegal house arrest” after the US and EU called for her release.

A group of eminent Chinese Communist Party veterans is calling for an end to the country's wide-ranging restrictions on free speech.

Prison authorities in China have started giving Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo better food, the dissident's wife said today, while she herself faces restrictions on whom she can meet and must be accompanied by a police escort whenever she leaves her home.

CHINA has blocked European diplomats from meeting the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and cut off her phone, in anger over the award.

China today blocked European diplomats from meeting the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner and cut off her phone in anger over the award.

An imprisoned Chinese dissident who won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize was allowed to meet with his wife and told her in tears that he was dedicating the award to victims of a 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, his wife and a close friend said.

THE wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo met her jailed husband yesterday, activists said, apparently to inform him he had won the prestigious award amid a media blackout in China.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou called on China to improve its human rights record while congratulating Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo for winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.