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Nov. 11, 1961 - Wins Asian Nobel Prize - Mr. Gus Borgeest holding his 2½-year-old adopted, Chinese daughter, Ruth, and standing with his Chinese wife, Mona, at their hone on Sunshine Island. Hong Kong, has received a 1961 Magsaysay Award, described as an Asian Nobel Prize. Himself a penniless refugee from Communist China in 1953. Borgeest has established on what was once 200 rook-strewn uninhabited acres a resettlement center for Chinese refugees who continue to arrive from the Communist-dominated mainland. Most of his guests stay for an average of six months before striking out on their own. Their work and his have raised homes, vegetables, fruit and pigs. His award, coming from the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation, Manila, is 0, 000 and a gold medal, but he still needs, 000 a month to make his award-winning island in the British colony entirely self-supporting

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Acres Adopted Average Award-winning Continue Described Entirely Established Hone Mainland Manila Mona Needs Penniless Pigs Ramon Refugee Resettlement Self-supporting Stay Striking Uninhabited Vegetables Year-old

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