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1. Wide shot of 2007 Ramon Magsaysay award ceremony 2. Close up of Ramon Magsaysay seal 3. Wide shot of winners 4. Audience applauding 5. Jovito Salonga (Philippines) receiving award for Government Service 6. Cutaway of audience 7. Reverend Kim Sun-tae (Korea) receiving award for Public Service 8. Cutaway of audience 9. Mahabir Pun (Nepal) receiving award for Community Leadership 10. Audience 11. Palagummi Sainath (India) receiving award for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts 12. Cutaway 13. Ramon Magsaysay award winner Chung-To (China) receiving award for Emergent Leadership 14. Photo on screen of Chung-To (China) 15. Wide shot of six out of the seven Ramon Magsaysay award winners 16. Mid shot Jovito Salonga, Reverend Kim Sun-Tae and Mahabir Pun 17. Mid shot of Tang Xiyang, Palagummi Sainath and Chung To 18. Ramon Magsaysay seal, pan down to award winners 19. Various photos on screen of Chung-To (China) 20. Tang Xiyang receiving his Ramon Magsaysay award, for Peace and International Understanding STORYLINE: A Filipino nationalist at the forefront of struggle for democracy during and after Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship was among the winners of the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award, Asia's version of the Nobel Prize, organisers said on Tuesday. Jovito R. Salonga, 87, won the award for government service for tirelessly fighting for the rule of law, honest and competent government and showing compassion for the poor - democratic and social ideals that were not always easy to find in the Philippines under Marcos. A law graduate and senator, he was crippled by a bomb blast at a political rally in 1971, a year before Marcos declared martial law. He fought Marcos' iron-fisted rule by defending the president's opponents and working for the release of political prisoners. He was briefly jailed in 1980 and spent four years in US exile. Salonga initiated the government's efforts to recover Marcos' ill-gotten wealth. In 1991, as the Senate president, he clinched his nationalist credentials by leading fellow senators in voting to close down US military bases in the Philippines. Other winners include Mahabir Pun of Nepal, who received the community leadership award for his innovative application of wireless computer technology that brought progress to remote mountain areas. Tang Xiyang from China received the peace and international understanding award for guiding his country to meet its mounting environmental crisis. Palagummi Sainath of India won the journalism, literature and creative communication arts award. Chung To and Chen Guangcheng of China won the emergent leadership awards. Chung's AIDS Orphans Project provides children who have an AIDS-infected parent with school fees. Chen, blinded by a fever as a child, became a "barefoot lawyer" helping farmers with grievances to file court cases, leading protests against a river-polluting paper factory and documenting abuses such as forced abortions by family planning officials in his native Shandong province in eastern China. He and his friends were beaten, Chen was held for months under house arrest and in a closed-door trial was sentenced to four years in prison for disturbing public order. He is still serving the sentence. Chen's wife was prevented from travelling to the Philippines to receive the award on his behalf. Yuan Weijing was blocked last week by Chinese authorities from leaving for Manila, and accused Beijing of violating human rights. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/ddf405111b4784aa0881834b9c4098ee Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork