Day: March 1, 2025

The Hong Kong Prize 2024 Winners Announced

The Hong Kong prize is a biennial award that recognizes outstanding research contributions by young scientists in the fields of science and technology. It is open to scientists under the age of 50 and aims to inspire future generations to pursue scientific research. It is one of the most prestigious awards in Hong Kong and is widely recognized in the scientific community.

The HK Prize was established by the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine to reward outstanding research published in a peer-reviewed journal by an Academy Fellow. This research must have significant clinical impact and be of high quality.

The winner of the 2024 HK Prize will receive a cheque of HK$500,000. The winner of the 2nd prize will receive a cheque of HK$25,000 and the winner of the 3rd prize will receive a certificate. The winning submission will also be given the opportunity to present their ideas to key stakeholders in the development sector.

During the week of 12-15 May, the 2024 hk prize winners will be announced. If there is no winner of the first or second prize, the money that would have been paid out for these prizes will be added to a jackpot in the next draw. This is how the jackpot can grow to about HK$100 million, which is still significantly more than the normal 1st division prize of HK$8 million.

Ben Campbell will go head to head with fellow Hong Kong tour pro Cameron Smith for the prestigious $2m hk prize payout this weekend at the LINK Hong Kong Golf Club. The tournament is the eighth of eight elevated International Series events on this year’s Asian Tour calendar, and the winner will earn a place at the season-ending HSBC Champions Tour event at Mission Hills in Shanghai.

The late director Benny Chan has been posthumously awarded the best director prize for his cops-and-robbers actioner Raging Fire at the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards. Donnie Yen won best actor, while the movie was also honored with film editing and action choreography awards. A letter signed by nine lawmakers across party lines nominated the Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, calling them global inspiration in the face of a crackdown by Beijing.

In the fine arts, Pakistani artist Sameen Agha won the $30,000 Grand Prize for her sculptural work A Home is a Terrible Place to Love, while the Vogue Hong Kong Women’s Art Prize went to local artist Michelle Fung for her mixed media piece Red Bean Stalk. HKFA chairman Derek Yee confirmed that the best director nomination for the documentary Leaving Home, about the residents of Ying Wa Girls’ School who staged a hunger strike to protest their detention by police, will remain unchanged. The committee decided not to take up its rights to cancel the nomination. The movie will be released in US cinemas on 16 June. Ying Wa Girls’ students will have the opportunity to attend its premiere in the city.

Singapore Prize Winners Announced

The winner of this prize will receive a grant of up to $100,000 to support a project in Singapore’s social sector. The winning proposal will be based on one of three themes: empowering the underprivileged, connecting citizens to their communities, and tackling climate change.

The prize will be awarded at a ceremony in the city-state on 7 November, during which Prince William will meet Singaporeans and tour sites that are working to protect and restore the planet. During the trip, he will also participate in the United for Wildlife summit, which will bring together representatives of law enforcement agencies and conservation organisations to discuss how to stop the illegal trade in wildlife products.

In the women’s 200-metre breaststroke, American Kate Douglass broke a world record to win the gold medal and received a $10,000 Triple Crown bonus. She also won a gold in the 100-metre butterfly and 50-metre freestyle, while her teammate Regan Smith took silver. In the men’s 400-metre individual medley, Australian swimmer Kyle Cochrane won the bronze medal and pocketed a $30,000 bonus for his efforts.

This year, the winner of this prize will be announced on 7 November at a star-studded awards ceremony in Singapore. The prize’s panel of judges consists of leading experts in urban issues from around the world. They are looking for innovative, impactful and scalable solutions to help address the challenges facing cities today. They have a two-tier evaluation process, which involves a Prize Council and a Nominating Committee, to ensure that the best city efforts are recognised.

The inaugural Readers’ Favourite category saw a record number of submissions, with almost 3,000 members of the public casting their votes in this year’s Singapore Prize. Winners included a novel that explores the history of the Straits Settlements, a book about a woman’s journey towards self-discovery, and a memoir that chronicles a family’s battle with cancer.

Singapore’s oldest ongoing literary award in all four official languages, the Singapore Literature Prize (SLP), has launched new categories for translation and comic books. The award’s organiser, the Singapore Book Council, said in a statement that these were introduced to “recognise and promote the increasingly diverse published works of Singaporeans and permanent residents”. The winner of the SLP for English literature this year was 91-year-old author Peter Ellinger for his book Down Memory Lane.

The SG Pools Prize winner will be able to access real-time data on the lottery results for Group 1 and Group 3 games, giving them more confidence in their strategies when playing online. They can use this information to make more informed decisions about which numbers to choose and when, enabling them to maximise their chances of winning the jackpot. This is a significant improvement over previous years, when players had to wait for the full results in print. The new data will be available on the SG Pools website. In order to participate in the SG Pools Prize, students must be nominated by their teachers.