The 1991 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding

It is with a deep sense of gratitude and fulfillment that we accept the 1991 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding.

The selection of the PRESS FOUNDATION OF ASIA for this prestigious award is an honor that we at the PFA will cherish for a long time to come.

However, that honor is not ours alone. It is that of the many institutions and individuals who have consistently helped us to carry out programs aimed at giving the Asian press a sense of professional purpose and responsibility appropriate to the needs of Asia and the changes taking place in Asian societies.

The award, in a larger sense, is a recognition of the twenty-four-year effort of the PFA to make the Asian press more aware of the need to look beyond national borders and address the complex issues of regional change and development.

Our sense of fulfillment derives from this recognition and from the fact that a growing number of Asian newspapers now devote more space to what the PFA founders had long perceived to be the most significant of features: the development story.

This award gives us all the more reason to pursue our ultimate objective. And that is to make the Asian press live, perform, and prosper in a growing region while remaining honorable.