Tang Prize

The first Tang Prize, awarded this year, helps showcase Taiwan and its ability to guide international research, the president of Academia Sinica told reporters.

The Tang Prize, a Taiwanese-founded international award, will "no doubt" eventually reach the status of the Nobel Prize because of its rigorous selection process and how it complements the Nobel Prize, a renowned scholar said recently.

Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Tang Prize, a Taiwanese-founded international award, emphasizes the practical application of research, according to the president of National Taiwan University.

The government and people of Taiwan should seriously reflect on former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland's advice on sustainable development issues, said Nobel laureate Lee Yuan-tseh.

The life and work of Albie Sachs, a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and winner of the first Tang Prize in Rule of Law, ought to be treated as important references for Taiwan's legal and political circles, a prominent local lawyer told CNA.

The organizer of the Tang Prize, an international award established by Taiwanese entrepreneur Samuel Yin that is aimed at supplementing the Nobel Prize, has expressed hope that the award will grow in time to become one that is respected by the international community.

A special exhibition titled "Glory of the Tang Prize" kicked off in this southern Taiwan port city Saturday, featuring the stories of five winners in four categories and the medal and diploma designs that were submitted in the prize's design competition.

South African lawyer Albie Sachs, who won the first-ever Tang Prize in Rule of Law Sept. 18, shared his life story and insights in a lecture at National Chung Hsing University in central Taichung Saturday.

Chinese-American historian and Tang Prize laureate Yu Ying-shih reiterated Saturday his support for Taiwan's Sunflower Student Movement, but stressed the importance of demonstrating peacefully in a democratic society.

Capital punishment is a violation of human dignity, Albie Sachs, a former justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa who became the first Tang Prize laureate for the rule of law, said Friday in Taipei.