Yak Ramon Magsaysay Laurels 2017 Winners List

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation has lately announced the winners of prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award 2017, which is likewise known every bit the Asia's Nobel Prize. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Japanese historian who helped Cambodians save the Angkor temples together with a Sri Lankan instructor who counseled country of war widows together with orphans to overcome their nightmares are amid the 6 winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards. There were no Indian's inwards this year's awardees.  

About Ramon Magsaysay Award

• The Ramon Magsaysay Award is 1 of Asia's well-nigh prestigious awards celebrating leadership inwards Asia. 
• This laurels is likewise known every bit Asian Nobel Prize. 
• The awardees are presented amongst a certificate together with a medallion amongst an embossed icon of Ramon Magsaysay, onetime President of the Phillippines after whom the laurels is named. 
• The awards volition hold upward presented on August 31 at a formal ceremony inwards Manila.

2017 Winners of Ramon Magsaysay Awards

• Abdon Nababan (INDONESIA) :
• For giving compelling confront together with vocalisation to Adat communities together with their rights.
• Gethsie Shanmugam (SRI LANKA)
• For rebuilding lives from the psychosocial wounds of country of war together with violence.
• Lilia De Lima (PHILIPPINES)
• For harnessing sustained, non-stop together with credible populace service.
• Philippine Educational Theater Association [PETA] (PHILIPPINES) :
• For empowering communities for evolution activity through theatre arts.
• Tony Tay (SINGAPORE) :
• For mobilizing collective goodwill to address hidden hunger.
• Yoshiaki Ishizawa (JAPAN) :
• For restoring Cambodia’s treasured gift to basis culture.

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