Cambodian, Indian among 2018 winners of Magsaysay awards

The other recipients named Thursday are a Filipino who led peace talks with communist insurgents, a polio-stricken Vietnamese who fought discrimination against the disabled, an East Timorese who built care centres for the poor amid civil strife and an Indian who tutored village students to help them pass exams. (Photo By http://www.sil.org/asia/philippines/magsaysay_award.html, Fair use)

MANILA, Philippines — 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 to treat and reunite them with their families are among the six winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as an Asian version of the Nobel Prize.

The other recipients named Thursday are a Filipino who led peace talks with communist insurgents, a polio-stricken Vietnamese who fought discrimination against the disabled, an East Timorese who built care centres for the poor amid civil strife and an Indian who tutored village students to help them pass exams.

The awards, named after a Philippine president who died in a 1957 plane crash, are to be presented in Manila on Aug. 31.