Day: November 9, 2024

The HK prize offers a good chance for young people to showcase their talent and build a strong reputation. Prizes include cash prizes, travel expenses and perks in various fields. However, the competition has strict rules that should be followed. To avoid disappointment, participants should read the regulations carefully before submitting an application.

The Hong Kong prize aims to honour excellence in research conducted by young Fellows of the Academy. Submissions should focus on Hong Kong-related clinical research or scientific research which has been primarily completed in the territory. The winners will receive a cash prize of HK$2,000,000 and a trophy. In addition, the winning researchers will also be given an opportunity to participate in research workshops at the Academy’s world-class facilities.

A controversial movie about the future of Hong Kong won the top prize at the city’s film awards despite antagonising Beijing. The award-winning Ten Years is made up of five vignettes that tap into residents’ worst fears for their semi-autonomous city as China tightens its grip. The film’s director, late Benny Chan, was posthumously awarded the best director prize while actor Andy Lau won best performance and action choreography.

Hong Kong’s top athletes can look forward to a generous pay day after winning a medal at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The top three winners in each event will take home a gold medal worth HK$12 million, silver HK$6m and bronze HK$3m respectively. Athletes finishing outside the top three will still receive a significant amount of money, with a fourth-place finish worth HK$750,000 and a fifth-place finish winning HK$375,000.

The prize for this category is open to all Hong Kong residents. Applicants must submit a written article about a book, play, film or documentary that focuses on global Hong Kong studies. The winning entries will be published in ICAS Book Reviews.

A jury of scholars from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will select the winner, who will be honoured at an awards ceremony on 30 June 2024. Runners-up and honourable mentions will be announced at the same event. In the event that no entry is received, the prize monies will be carried over to the next year’s competition. Interested parties can find more details at the official website. The application deadline is 31 October. The finalists will receive an honorable mention certificate, and a full-page advert in the Hong Kong Prize Magazine, as well as opportunities to attend HKGNA masterclasses and concerts. The competition is free to enter, but there is a limit on the number of finalists who can be accepted. If the number of finalists is oversubscribed, the judges will determine the best entries in their view. The prize is a joint initiative of the Hong Kong Book Publishers Association and ICAS. The HK Prize is supported by a number of sponsors including the Hong Kong Arts Council and the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Associations. The judging panel will be formed by the Hong Kong Book Publishers Association and ICAS members.

The PGA Championship is on the horizon, but there’s plenty going on right now for players and fans alike. The tournament heads to Singapore next week, where we’ll find out if defending champion Brooks Koepka can defend his title.

It’s not every day that you get to see a royal visit in action, but that’s exactly what happened at the weekend when Prince William made his first trip to Asia since becoming king. The British monarch attended the Earthshot Prize awards ceremony in Singapore, which aims to find solutions to climate change before it’s too late.

This year’s winners include solar-powered dryers that combat food waste and a system to make electric car batteries cleaner. At the event, which was held at Mediacorp Campus, the prince praised the work of the five winners, noting that “hope remains as long as we continue to seek the answers we need.”

This is the first time the ceremony has been held in Asia, and it marked the third edition of the prize, named after President John F. Kennedy’s “moonshot” speech in 1962, which challenged Americans to reach the moon by the end of that decade. The prizes are awarded by the NUS Asia Research Institute, which is headed by distinguished fellow Kishore Mahbubani. Celebrities including Oscar winner Cate Blanchett, actors Donnie Yen and Lana Condor and Australian wildlife conservationist Robert Irwin also attended the ceremony, which was the first to feature celebrity presenters.

NUS Singapore History Prize

The Department of History at NUS has shortlisted six compelling works for this inaugural award, aimed at celebrating the rich and diverse history of the city-state. The shortlist features a mix of works with a broad slant and those with a more personal slant, ranging from the historical to the memoir. The winner will receive a cash award of S$50,000.

One such book is Nine Yard Sarees (2019, available here), a cycle of stories by Kamaladevi Chatterjee that follows Tamil migrants in Singapore. Each story tells a different tale of a woman who carries a complex inner life as she navigates the ill-defined space between societies that migrants tend to inhabit.

Other works in the running are Jeremy Tiang’s Sembawang, which follows the lives of members of a leftist political movement and detention camp during the Cold War, and Leluhur: Singapore’s Kampong Gelam (2019, available here), by Hidayah Amin, who explores the history of a heritage royal building that’s now known as Gedung Kuning. Both authors have written about their subject in an accessible way, and show how accomplishment means more than just having the right job or amount of money in your bank account.