Doctor who helped Agent Orange victims wins Magsaysay Award
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This undated photo provided by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation shows 2024 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee, Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong, center, from Vietnam. (Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation via AP) This undated photo provided by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation shows 2024 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Emergent Leadership, Farwiza Farhan of Indonesia, sitting beside an elephant. (Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation via AP) In this undated photo provided by Arai via the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, 2024 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee, Japan's Miyazaki Hayao, reads a script. (Arai/Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation via AP) This undated photo provided by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation shows 2024 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee, Karma Phuntsho, left, from Bhutan. (Ramon Magsaysay Awards Foundation via AP)
A Vietnamese doctor who has helped seek justice for victims of the powerful defoliant dioxin "Agent Orange" used by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War is among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards — regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prizes.
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