hk prize is one of Asia’s premier awards, drawing thousands of applicants each year. It recognizes scientific research with significant societal benefits, encourages young people to follow their passions and broaden their global perspectives. It also grants winners access to Hong Kong’s premier facilities and fosters international cooperation.
PGA Tour pro Abraham Ancer won the hk prize at his first event in the Hong Kong Golf Association LIV Golf League, clinching a playoff victory over Australia’s Cameron Smith and England’s Paul Casey. The winner takes home the prize money of $4,000,000. The tournament’s total prize purse was $25,000,000.
Veteran actor and martial artist Sammo Hung won a lifetime achievement award at a ceremony held in Hong Kong Sunday night. His filmography includes such classics as Police Story, Chungking Express and The Legend of Fong Sai-Yuk. His new movie, Against the Wind, stars Michelle Yeoh as a woman forced to choose between her lover and her family. The film won best new director for Nick Cheuk Yik-him. Other winners included actress Jennifer Yu Heung-ying, who won best performance for her role in the drama In Broad Daylight about a reporter exposing abuse at a nursing home.
The hk prize was established in 2016 by the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and China. The prize consists of cash, a medallion and a certificate. A citation is presented to each of the winner’s institutions and the winning research projects are published in academic journals. In addition, the winner and his or her team will have a unique opportunity to conduct further research in Hong Kong’s leading laboratories and be exposed to experts from around the world.
HK prize is open to high school students in Southeast Asia, mainland China and the rest of the world, who can demonstrate their excellent academic achievements, extracurricular activities and leadership abilities through the application process. The judging panel consists of renowned scholars, scientists and leaders in the fields of science and technology. They will make independent judgments and objective evaluations based on the candidate’s scientific and technological innovation, the transformation of the achievements, and the social or economic value created.
A group of US lawmakers has nominated the Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters for a Nobel peace prize, calling them “global inspiration” in the face of Beijing’s crackdown on freedom and civil society. The letter, signed by senators from both parties and a congressman, was delivered to the Nobel committee on Wednesday. The letter says that more than two million Hong Kongers took to the streets in June this year, making it one of the largest mass protests in history. The nominations come a week after the government announced it would ban public discussion of Beijing’s policies on freedom and human rights. The protesters are students, journalists, lawyers and members of civil societies. In a separate development, an international student team won the HK prize in 2023 for their research report entitled “On the Properties of the Semigroup Generated by the RL Fractional Integral”. Their research could help solve a problem in the field of fractals and cryptography.