Magsaysay Awards honor animator, doctors, ex-monk

By Franco Jose C. Baroña

Sep 01, 2024 12:17 am

(UPDATES) A JAPANESE animator, a doctor from Vietnam, an environmentalist from Indonesia, an educator from Bhutan and a group of doctors from Thailand are this year's recipients of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Awards, Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The recipients of the 2024 Ramon Magsaysay Awards were announced on Saturday, August 31, during the commemoration of the 117th birth anniversary of the seventh Philippine President.

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