Get original for Nobel

We are already one of the world's largest economies. We have sent people into the space. We have hosted a spectacular Olympics. We are the world's fifth most prolific producer of academic theses on science and technology.

Still, we are yet to win a Nobel Prize.

With British-American Chinese Charles Kao becoming the eighth ethnic Chinese to win a Nobel, that very same old embarrassing question is being raised: How far are we from a Nobel Prize?