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Six Asians receive Magsaysay awards
Published on 31/08/2018
» MANILA: Six people were honoured Friday as this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards, known as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, including a Cambodian genocide survivor who helped document the Khmer Rouge atrocities and an Indian psychiatrist who led the rescue of thousands of mentally ill street paupers.
Angkhana receives Magsaysay award
Online Reporters, Published on 02/08/2019
» Angkhana Neelapaijit, who resigned as human rights commissioner two days ago, has been awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Thai rural doctors delighted by 'Nobel Prize of Asia' recognition
News, Published on 01/09/2024
» The rural doctors' movement in Thailand is among the five recipients of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, the organisation behind what is regarded as the Nobel Prize of Asia announced yesterday.
Angkhana to join UNHRC disappearances panel
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/04/2022
» The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has appointed activist Angkhana Neelaphaijit as a member of its Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), according to the UN.
Cambodian psychiatrist helping genocide survivors wins Magsaysay
AFP, Published on 31/08/2022
» A Cambodian psychiatrist treating victims of the Khmer Rouge and a French environmentalist cleaning up Indonesian rivers were among the winners Wednesday of the 2022 Ramon Magsaysay Award -- considered Asia's Nobel Prize.
Thai rural doctors’ group wins Magsaysay Award
Published on 31/08/2024
» The rural doctors’ movement in Thailand is among the five recipients of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, the organisation behind what is regarded as the Nobel Prize of Asia said on Saturday.
Honoured health reformer Prawase dies aged 93
Online Reporters, Published on 11/01/2026
» Dr Prawase Wasi, one of Thailand’s most honoured public health scholars and civil society leaders, passed away peacefully at his home in Bangkok on Saturday night. He was 93.
Magsaysay award winner, activist Jon Ungphakorn dies aged 77
Online Reporters, Published on 13/05/2025
» The Thai activist and former senator Jon Ungphakorn has died peacefully at home at the age of 77, the Prachathai news agency announced on Tuesday.
Kidnap cases alive and well
Oped, Editorial, Published on 17/12/2022
» On Thursday, activists gathered in front of the Lao Embassy in Bangkok to mark the 10th year of the disappearance of Sombath Somphone, the award-winning Lao social activist. Every year, activists have launched campaigns to keep the memory of his mysterious vanishing alive.
Japanese doctor, five Afghans killed in Afghanistan attack
AFP, Published on 04/12/2019
» KABUL: A Japanese doctor who spent decades working in Afghanistan was killed Wednesday along with five Afghans in an attack in the east of the country, officials said.