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on 30-Jul-02 11:19 PM
Koirala wins Magsaysay Award
KOL Report
KATHMANDU, July 30 - Veteran Nepali journalist and founder of Nepal Press Institute (NPI) Bharat Dutta Koirala was among six Asians conferred with this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel prize.
Koirala, won the award for journalism, literature and communications for developing professional journalism in the country while promoting the use of mass media for development, an Associate French Press (AFP) report from Manila said Monday.
“I feel very excited and happy, and consider this as an honour not only for me but for all my friends within the country and the region,” a delighted Koirala told Kantipur Online on Monday night. “On the whole, I feel that this is an honour to Nepal’s emerging free media and the press, which has performed extremely well in the last 12 years of democracy.”
A former Editor of Gorakhapatra, the first newspaper of Nepal, a former trustee of the King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation (KMTNC) and the man who played an important role in setting up Radio Sagarmatha, South Asia’s first community (F.M.) frequency modulation radio, Koirala, 60, is the second Nepali to be conferred with the prestigious award.
Mahesh Chandra Regmi was the first Nepali to be conferred with the award. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1977 for journalism, literature and creative and communication arts.
The winners of the awards will each receive a medallion and a cash prize of 50,000 dollars each in an awards ceremony at the Philippine capital in August. The Magsaysay Awards Foundation was set up in May 1957 in honour of popular Philippine president Ramon Magsaysay, who died in a plane crash in March, 1957
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