The annual awards, announced Wednesday, are named after a Philippine president who died in a 1957 plane crash, and honour greatness of spirit in selfless service to the peoples of Asia.
A psychiatrist who helped fellow Cambodians recover from trauma resulting from the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal rule and a Japanese ophthalmologist who led an effort to treat thousands of Vietnamese villagers were among those selected for this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize. The other…