Six winners announced of 2018 Magsaysay award, Asia's Nobel

A Cambodian who has spent his life chronicling the horrific, genocidal reign of the Pol Pot regime in the late 1970s, along with five other Asians are this year's winners of the Magsaysay Award, regarded as Asia's counterpart to the Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced Thursday.Youk Chhang of Cambodia, as well as five other people from East Timor, the Philippines, India and Vietnam, will receive the 2018 Ramon Magsaysay Award, for "transforming Asia for the better," the Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said.The other awardees include Maria de Lourdes Martins Cruz for her work to…READ FULL ARTICLE