KATHMANDU, July 31 - Mahabir Pun of Nepal is among the seven individuals who will receive the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award, the Board of Trustees of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation (RMAF) announced on Tuesday. Pun has won the award for Community Leadership for "his innovative application of wireless computer technology in Nepal, bringing progress to remote mountain areas by connecting his village to the global village." Pun, 52, is a resident of the western district of Myagdi. He, among other seven individuals from China, India, Korea, Nepal, and the Philippines will be presented with the prestigious award amid a function in Manila, Philippines, on August 31. Pun is the fourth Nepali national to win the coveted award also known by some as the Nobel Prize of Asia. Dr. Sanduk Ruit, head of the Tilganga Eye Center in Nepal had received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2006 for "placing Nepal at the forefront of developing safe, effective and economic procedures for cataract surgery, enabling the needlessly blind in even the poorest countries to see again." Nepal's renowned journalist, Bharat Dutta Koirala, received the award in 2002 for his outstanding contribution to the development of journalism in Nepal. Late Mahesh Chandra Regmi was the first Nepali to receive the award for journalism, literature, and creative communication arts in 1977. The other 2007 awardees are: Jovito R. Salonga, from the Philippines for Government Service Kim Sun-tae, from Korea, for Public Service. Tang Xiyang, from China, for Peace and International Understanding. Palagummi Sainath, from India, for Journalism, Literature, and Creative Communication Arts. Chen Guangcheng, from China, for Emergent Leadership. Chung To, from China, for Emergent Leadership.