The HK$10 million Hong Kong Prize is the latest of its kind to be awarded. The award honors changemakers whose innovations advance education in a changing world. It includes a cash prize and project funds. This year’s winner will be announced tonight.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) is raising the prize money for races at 1600m and beyond in its 2023/24 racing season. Races at the longer distance will carry a 10% premium over contests shorter in length. The DBS x Manulife Million Challenge series will also increase in prize money, with HK$1 million for the winning horse and HK$350,000 for second place.
Despite no first prize winner in last week’s draw, the jackpot snowball continues to build with a current total of HK$102 million, which has been carried forward from bets made up to this Sunday. To ensure the fairness of the draw, a number of strict measures are taken, including a thorough inspection by employees from security and customer service departments of all materials used for the draws, from boxing to transport, as well as a re-check of the balls on a daily basis. The balls are also weighed and examined by X-ray before and after each draw.
Professor George B. Endacott, the prize’s namesake, was responsible, almost single-handedly, for the re-establishment of the History Department as one of the Faculty of Arts’ principal teaching and research units in the 1950s. His main area of research was East Asian history.
A Chinese film has made the shortlist for this year’s HK International Film Festival (HKIFF) Golden Rooster Awards. The movie, titled Zhuoyun, or Invisible Hand, was adapted from a popular novel of the same name by Lu Xiudong. The HKIFF is the most prestigious award ceremony in the city for local and regional films.
HKFP has been nominated for a journalism-related prize in the 2024 Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Awards. The NGO lauded HKFP for covering subjects considered taboo by Beijing, such as human rights, politics and trials of political figures. It said that HKFP was “a rare media” in Hong Kong that does so while “maintaining its independence.”
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) became the first Asian orchestra to win a Gramophone Classical Music Award, known as the “Oscars of classical music”, at a ceremony in London last October. The award honours ensembles that have recorded significant contributions to the classical repertoire. The HK Phil’s live recordings of the Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner were deemed to be particularly outstanding.