Day: February 15, 2025

The Hong Kong Prize is awarded to young researchers with innovative research projects in five areas: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Life and Health, New Materials and New Energy, Advanced Manufacturing and FinTech. The award aims to encourage scientific innovation and technology entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams, build on Hong Kong’s strengths, serve the country and contribute to the world.

The winning researchers will be awarded HK$200,000 each, while their school/university will receive a grant of up to HK$40,000. A total of 20 schools will benefit from the scheme, which was introduced in 1986 and is one of Hong Kong’s oldest student incentive schemes.

Hong Kong’s top jockey Silvestre de Sousa is set to return to the track after a 10-month absence in this week’s Group 3 race at Sha Tin. The former champion of the UK’s Classic Chase and the International Hurdle will be aiming for his seventh win in the race.

The HKJC has set aside a jackpot reserve for the draw tonight, with the jackpot rising to HK$102 million after no first prize winner was picked last week. The jackpot will increase by a further HK$5 million if there are no winning tickets in tonight’s draw. The Stanley Street betting station in Central, which has seen 47 top prize winners since 1994, opened an hour early today with dozens of punters lined up to place their bets.

It’s been another busy week for the HKJC, with the Club offering increased prize money across all racing classes this weekend to mark the Year of the Snake. The HK$20.8 million Triple Trio, Quartet and First 4 merged pool will be topped up by 54%, while the HK$5million Class 1 Handicap race will also get an extra HK$2.5m from the Club’s prize fund.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) has been named as Orchestra of the Year 2019 by the international magazine Gramophone in its annual poll. The HK Phil’s performance and recording of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, led by Music Director Jaap van Zweden, has won praise from music-lovers around the world. The HK Phil extends its heartfelt thanks to the Hong Kong SAR Government, Principal Patron the Swire Group and music-lovers worldwide for their support.

The University of Sydney offers a wide variety of prizes for submissions in various written forms including poems, plays and essays. These are often awarded to students or scholars who are displaying excellent work or promise in their research field. Prizes are offered in both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. All literary prize submissions require an application and the submission of written work on a selected topic. All work must be submitted under a nom de plume and be the original work of the applicant.

Winners of each Sydney Prize receive a mesmeric swirl award designed and handmade in Sydney by Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy at Dinosaur Designs. Prizes are listed in USD and converted into GBP and Euros at the mid-market exchange rate for each period. This is shown in the table below.

In memory of Sidney Howard, a dramatist who died tragically in 1939 at the age of forty-eight, this prize was established by the Playwrights’ Company to encourage and support new playwrights. It has been awarded to such distinguished writers as Robert Ardrey and Tennessee Williams, among others.

This award is given to a student in their first two years of graduate studies. The prize was endowed by the friends of the late Sidney Cox in his honour and is administered by a committee of former students, of whom Robert Frost ’96 and A. B. Guthrie are honorary chairmen and Budd Schulberg ’36 is active chairman.

The Society for the History of Technology has awarded York University Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep its 2018 Sidney Edelstein Prize – the most prestigious book prize in the history of technology. Jones-Imhotep, who teaches one of our most popular HIST courses at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies (LA&PS), was awarded the prize for his book The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in Cold War America.

Each year, the Sydney Film Festival awards a number of prizes to filmmakers, writers and actors who have made outstanding contributions to Australian cinema. The full breakdown of prize money offered each year is shown below, along with the % increase from the previous year.

The Hillman Foundation is proud to announce that Philippe Sands KC, who leads the legal team at The Global Fund for Community Investments, has been named the 2024 recipient of our George Barrett Award. The prize is given to professionals whose career exemplifies the public spirit and activism of George Barrett by advancing human rights and addressing the legacies of colonialism. The prize includes a $20,000 honorarium and will be presented at the Foundation’s annual celebration in New York City. The Hillman Foundation also awards the monthly Sidney Prize, an honorarium that recognizes journalistic excellence in service to the common good.