The Philippine Daily Inquirer-July29

The Ramon Magsaysay Awards, the “Nobel for Asia,” have been handed out yearly to Asian exemplars of service and excellence for the past half-century. Not for nothing is the award named after a Filipino president who became the most beloved leader of his country and inspired many before dying too early.  This year, the Magsaysay Awards were given to six recipients: former envoy Howard Dee of the Philippines, genocide survivor-historian Youk Chhang of Cambodia, nun-turned-activist Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz of East Timor, psychiatrist Bharat Vatwani of India, teacher Sonam Wangchuk of India, and inclusion advocate Vo Thi Hoang Yen of Vietnam.

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