The Hong Kong Prize aims to encourage excellence in the community by recognizing students and individuals who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in their studies, research or career development. The Prize champions the Hong Kong spirit of perseverance and innovation by rewarding the winners with a cash award and certificate of merit. In addition, the winner’s school will receive a grant of up to HK$100,000 for further development of the winning student or individual.
In the secondary division, Charmaine Wu Sum-ching from Diocesan Girls’ School and Christina Wong Man-yan from St Paul’s Co-educational College were awarded first place. Despite quarantine restrictions, these young students competed with their peers from all over China via video link.
China Daily’s Hong Kong edition scooped four top awards at this year’s news awards for its coverage of Hong Kong’s efforts to become a culture and arts hub. The paper’s senior reporter Kate Li Bingcun won the top prize in two categories. She crafted a three-piece culture series that explored the city’s pursuit of art and civilization.
Two of the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s artists have won prestigious international prizes. Nikola GAO won the Judges Prize, with a cheque for HK$8,000, while Sze Wing Cathy won the Public Vote Prize and received a monetary award of HK$4,000, as well as a HK$20,000 school award. The HK Phil extends its heartfelt thanks to our generous supporters, especially the Hong Kong SAR Government and Principal Patron Swire Group, for their support for this award-winning project.
Prof. Fan Zhiyong, a professor in the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering and the Chemical & Biochemical Engineering at HKU, has been selected to receive this year’s BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (STIP in AI). Supported by BOCHK and Tencent Foundation, the prize encourages scientists aged 45 or below in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan to research unexplored areas of basic sciences and frontier technologies, and promotes talent cultivation for the future of the Greater Bay Area.
The HK Prize is open to all full-time PhD and MPhil candidates, with the exception of those who are also members of a university faculty. Candidates must have a published full-article, with the date of publication appearing in the by-line, in a journal whose content is relevant to the category for which they are applying. Submitted articles must be original works that have been published in the preceding calendar year. Review articles and letters to the editor are not eligible. Applicants may submit up to five entries in each category. For each entry, the candidate must provide a copy of the published article as well as a blinded abstract of not more than 500 words. The submission deadline is 31 August 2024. For more information, please visit the official website of HK Prize. You can also follow the Facebook page of HK Prize to get the latest updates and announcements. Good luck!