2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardees, from left, Indonesia's Ahmad Syafi Maarif for Peace and International Understanding, Sri Lanka's Ananda Galappatti for Emergent Leadership, India's Mandaki and Prakash Amte for Community Leadership, Philippine's Jaime Alip of Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) for Public Service, Philppines' Grace Padaca for Government Service, Thailand's Therdchai Jivacate for Public Service and Japan's Akio Ishii for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts pose for photographers in Manila on Thursday. The award, named for a popular Philippine president who died in a plane crash in 1957, is considered the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize.