Day: March 16, 2025

The hk prize is one of the most prestigious awards in Hong Kong, recognizing individuals for their outstanding achievements and contributions to society. Those who win the award receive a trophy, monetary prize, and recognition at a ceremony. The process of selecting winners is rigorous and follows a structured evaluation system to ensure fairness and credibility.

The South China Morning Post picked up 12 prizes, including a top honour in the Best Scoop category, at the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong’s 2024 awards on Friday. The Post’s City desk reporters, including senior reporter Edith Lin and news editor Jeffie Lam, were honoured for their work exposing unauthorised structures added to luxury properties. The Post’s science team also scooped the award for best science reporting with a series on movers and shakers in the field.

A record jackpot has been set for the Mark Six Lunar New Year Snowball draw, with a first prize estimated at HK$188 million for a single winning unit hitting all six numbers. The jackpot is a whopping increase of more than 30 times compared to the previous record set during the last Chinese New Year Snowball draw in 2016. Thousands of people queued up outside betting centers Sunday to try their luck at buying a ticket.

The 2019/20 Hong Kong racing season will see a significant increase in prize money, with a total of HK$1.38 billion on offer across the elite races featured at the Longines Hong Kong International Races and FWD Champions Day. The world’s most valuable seven-furlong Group 1 contest, the G1 Queen’s Silver Jubilee Cup (1400m), will continue to be the highest-endowed turf race in the world, while the upcoming G1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize (1200m) at FWD Champions Day will become the second-highest prize money for the 1200m group of races in the country.

A number of US lawmakers have nominated Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. The lawmakers, all of whom are members of the congressional-executive commission on China, say that the activists serve as a global inspiration in their fight against Beijing’s crackdown on freedoms.

Depending on the award category, candidates may be nominated by academic institutions, professional organizations, businesses, government bodies, or prominent figures within their fields of expertise. They must then submit an official application, a detailed biography, and evidence of their accomplishments to the hk prize selection committee. The committee then verifies the nominations to make sure they meet the necessary criteria before final selection.

The Hong Kong Studies Association (HKSA) is a non-profit professional organization with a membership consisting of scholars in the disciplines of Asian and Hong Kong studies from around the world. The HKSA seeks to promote research into Hong Kong’s multifaceted connections and significance in the world, both contemporary and historical. It is an affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies and aims to build a global network of scholars engaged in Hong Kong studies. For more information, please visit the HKSA’s website.

The LIV Golf Singapore 2025 tournament will see the winner take home a massive payday. The tournament’s purse is $25 million, with $20 million going to the individual winner and $5 million for the team event. The tournament will be held at Sentosa’s Serapong course. Last year’s winner Brooks Koepka is the top pick to win, despite his inconsistent play this season. He’s familiar with the course, so he should have an advantage. However, he’s not the only one to keep an eye on. Sergio Garcia is another top contender and a past champion at the event.

The UNESCO Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation is awarded every two years. It consists of a financial reward and a diploma. The prize is founded on a gift from the Sultan of Oman and it’s given to organisations that are working for the preservation of the natural environment.

Prince William has joined forces with partners including Temasek and carbon solutions platform GenZero to create The Earthshot Prize, an initiative to solve global environmental challenges within a decade. It is inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s ‘moonshot’ speech in 1962, where he challenged Americans to reach the moon by the end of the decade.

William is in Singapore to host the inaugural awards ceremony for the new prize, which will be held on 7 November. He’ll meet Singaporeans to see how local organisations are working to protect and restore our planet. During his visit, he’ll call on Singapore President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. He’ll also attend the United for Wildlife summit, which features representatives from law enforcement agencies and conservation groups who work to combat the illegal trade in wildlife.

In keeping with the sustainability theme of the prize, he and other guests walked down a “green carpet.” The glitzy event was hosted by actresses Hannah Waddingham and Sterling K. Brown and featured performances by the bands One Republic and Bastille. Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a trustee of the prize board, also attended the ceremony.

This year, 224 books were submitted for the prize’s various categories. Authors and industry experts judged the submissions, which were announced at a ceremony at the National Museum of Singapore.

The winning books include Straits Times journalist Akshita Nanda’s debut novel Nimita’s Place, which explores the lives of two women named Nimita navigating their families’ expectations in India and Singapore. Epigram Books titles also won prizes in English fiction, with the award shared by the SG50-centric book Kian Kok and speculative short story collection Lion City. There were no winners in Malay and Tamil fiction, but the two merit winners each received a cash prize and a 12-month Storytel audiobook gift subscription. The Readers’ Favourite category saw four winners, including veteran Malay-language writer Peter Augustine Goh. Each of them will receive $1,000 cash and a book voucher worth $50. Almost 3,000 people voted in the category. The other winners include a biography of Singapore’s pioneering women, the first book on the history of the Singapore Stock Exchange and a scholarly study of a 14th-century port town.