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Medical researcher Ernesto Domingo, 76, is among this year’s Ramon Magsaysay awardees. He is being recognized for advancing universal healthcare in the country. The Manila-based Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, named after the former president who was killed in a plance crash, was set up in 1957 to honor people or groups able to make communities in Asia better. Besides Domingo, the other Magsaysay awardees include Habiba Sarabi, Afghanistan’s first and only female provincial governor; aid worker Lahpai Seng Raw who founded Myanmar’s largest civil society group; Shakti Samuha, a Nepalese anti-human trafficking group; and Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (Corruption Eradication Commission), an Indonesia group. Awards will be handed out on August 31.
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