Ramon Magsaysay Award

The American humanitarian worker is honored for his “unshakable belief in the goodness of man that inspires in others the desire to serve”

For her “passion and life-long devotion to the scientific profession,” Dr. Firdausi Qadri, 70, is honored with this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Award, dubbed as Asia’s counterpart of the Nobel Prize.

Since he was young, Ka Dodoy knew the realities of diminishing fish harvests in once rich fishing grounds

A fisherman from the southern Philippines, an Indonesian media group, a scientist from Bangladesh, a Pakistani entrepreneur, and a humanitarian worker are this year’s winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, dubbed as Asia’s Nobel Prize.