An Indian filmmaker who has strived for emotional integrity in his films

A Vietnamese editor whose convictions led him to act with perceptive courage and staunch individualism as writer and editor, professor and government official.

A Japanese broadcaster who embraced mass media broadcasting in educating a country?s population.

A Thai cartoonist who used humor and satire in illuminating national issues in his country

A publisher who founded a magazine that advocated for quality consumer goods for the Japanese middle class amidst rapid industrialization and commercial expansion

A Japanese poet and essayist whose writings helped address the toxic industrial pollution ravaging her community's water systems and killing its fisher folks

One of very few practitioners of the profession of competent agriculture reporting in developing Asia, where agriculture has been the principal livelihood and holds promise of being an increasingly lucrative mainstay

A senior Indian journalist who was editor of leading newspapers The Hindustan Times and The Indian Express

An Indian theater actor who created superbly crafted productions shaped the literary taste of an intellectual generation