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Hiroshima mayor, China activists win 'Asian Nobel'

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The three-term mayor of Hiroshima who spearheaded a global campaign for nuclear disarmament and a photographer who documented river pollution in his native China are among the 2010 winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards
By HRVOJE HRANJSKI (AP) – 3 August 2010

MANILA, Philippines – The three-term mayor of Hiroshima who spearheaded a global campaign for nuclear disarmament and a photographer who documented river pollution in his native China are among the 2010 winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Awards.

The awards announced Monday are considered Asia's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. They are named after a popular Philippine president who died in a plane crash in 1957... (click here or on the link below to read more).

Article Date: 03/08/10
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