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.