The 2024 golf season kicked off on a high note with Abraham Ancer winning the inaugural FWD Champions Day. The winner earned a whopping $4 million for his efforts. Paul Casey and Cameron Smith both took home $1.875 million for their runner-up finishes. Taking the third prize was Joaquin Niemann, who banked $900,000.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club has announced across-the-board increases in racing prize money for the 2022/23 season, including a 20% bump for the BMW Hong Kong Derby. The boosts will help the Club reaffirm its long-term commitment to ensuring the financial viability of its flagship race meeting and its world-class horse racing.
It’s been a difficult season for Hong Kong racing, with the industry hit by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent social unrest. But despite the challenges, the Hong Kong Jockey Club has decided to stick with its plan of record-breaking prize money increases for this season. The Club has also made a number of innovations, including the introduction of a new bonus scheme to reward owners of horses that run well in Group 2 and Class 1 races.
HK Global Development Prize
The hk prize is an opportunity to submit innovative ideas that can contribute to enhancing Hong Kong’s international development efforts and shaping its role on the world stage. The prize is open to individuals, organizations, and institutions from all sectors. Its mission is to encourage the creation of new theories, concepts and methodologies for studying Hong Kong’s multifaceted connections with and significance in Asia, as well as its global impacts.
In addition to the cash prize, laureates will receive an unrestricted project fund of HK$15 million that will support them in scaling up their work. In order to encourage and recognise the exceptional achievements of the 2024 Yidan Prize winners, the Prize will feature two prizes, working in tandem: The Yidan Prize for Education Research and the Yidan Prize for Education Development.
The Society for Hong Kong Studies (SHKS) invites scholars and students to submit their research papers on all aspects of the multifaceted history, culture, economy and governance of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Papers will be judged on the basis of their originality, scholarship and impact.
Winners of the 2019 SHKS Best Paper Award will be rewarded with an engraved medal and a cash prize of HK$25,000 each. The winning papers are selected on the basis of a blind peer review by three senior scholars.
This year, SHKS is especially interested in submissions that explore Hong Kong’s changing responsibilities as a regional hub and its implications on the wider world. We look forward to receiving your entries! The submission deadline is 31 August. For more information about the competition, please click here.