A number of prestigious accolades have been bestowed in the past few months. Film director and action choreographer Sammo Hung received a lifetime achievement award at a ceremony Sunday evening in Hong Kong. The event also honored veteran actors and actresses, and the film industry’s top talent including producers and editors. Films from both 2021 and 2020 were honoured at the awards, which included categories for acting, music, editing, and action choreography.
Two US scientists are among those who won this year’s Shaw Prize, a top honour awarded in Hong Kong for outstanding accomplishments in science and technology. Life scientists Thein Swee Lay and Stuart Orkin were lauded for their research that could lead to a cure for sickle cell disease and beta-thalassaemia, blood disorders affecting around 20 million people worldwide. The scientists discovered a gene regulator that affects the production of haemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
Scientists from the University of Hong Kong won a series of prizes in the science and technology category of this year’s BOCHK SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PRIZE. Martin M. L. Wong, Department of Physics and Materials Science, won the Zhu Kezhen Prize for his research paper “Lidar & Radiosonde Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer over Hong Kong”. Lee Ying Man won the Scientific Research (Natural Sciences) category, while Xiao Ying won the Social Science and Humanities category.
The HK$2 million prize is sponsored by the Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited. It aims to recognise scientific research that has a major influence on the transformation of R&D outcomes in Hong Kong and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Candidates should support the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and have high professional ethics and social morality.
An independent review process is put in place to ensure that the operation of hk prize is performed professionally, objectively, and impartially. The judging panel is composed of experts in various fields. Applicants are required to provide detailed research projects and supporting documents for evaluation. The Board of Review, Compliance Oversight Team and Secretariat are responsible for interpreting the articles of THE PRIZE Charter, suggesting important scientific research fields for consideration, setting requirements for nominations, and verifying and approving nominees.
Justice Centre Hong Kong launched this annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Art Prize in 2022, co-hosted by the EU Office in Hong Kong and Macao and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong. This year’s theme, Our Changing World, encourages submissions across a range of media by artists to explore aspects of global evolution. In addition to the judges’ prize, a public vote will reward a work that sparks conversation and reflection on diversity. HK$10,000 is awarded to the school of the Public Vote Prize winner. For more information, click here. The deadline for the submission is 16 September. All enrolled secondary school students in Hong Kong are eligible to take part. They will be nominated by their teachers and can submit up to three artworks.