From October 4 to November 4, The Hong Kong Science Museum is hosting the 2024 Future Science Prize exhibit. This showcase highlights winners of this prize over time as well as interactive displays related to their research projects. Visitors can gain an in-depth understanding of science behind each prize as well as learn how they could win themselves!
This year’s Hong Kong Prize (HK Prize) prize pool has reached an all-time record high of HK$1.62 billion, featuring numerous extra features that encourage horse owners to invest in high-quality racehorses. These include an unprecedented single season increase in prize money across distance races as well as an enhanced bonus system designed to encourage them.
Mabel Cheung’s To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self was honored at the 41st Hong Kong Film Awards with best film while Wai Ka Fai’s cops-and-robbers thriller Raging Fire won best director. The ceremony, hosted on Sunday evening at Hong Kong Cultural Centre, saw numerous nominations present and numerous attendees present as nominees received their awards.
On January 31st, Mark Six will award jackpots totaling HK$20 million to bring its total prize fund to an all-time high HK$30.8 million. The Triple Trio jackpot will increase from HK$18 to HK$22 million while Quartet and First 4 Merged Pool prizes will receive additional jackpots totalling an extra HK$2.8 million each. Unit investment for every Mark Six entry remains at HK$10, with winning tickets needing to be presented within 60 days after their respective draws for payment.
An independent review of the Hong Kong Prize has been initiated in order to ensure it continues to operate according to scientific and standardized management practices, while taking public sentiment and concerns into consideration when making its award decisions.
The Charter seeks to promote scientific and standardized management of BOCHK SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PRIZE and ensure its award process is both objective and fair. To this end, it establishes clear responsibilities between its three tiers – Board, Review Committee and Compliance Oversight Team as well as an independent Secretariat responsible for day-to-day operations of the award.
The Hong Kong Prize (hk Prize) is an international accolade designed to honour outstanding scientists for their contribution in science and technological innovation, and Hong Kong government will continue its support of it, said Secretary for Science and Technology Lee Lee-ching. The prize forms part of Hong Kong’s government strategy to establish it as an international hub of innovation and technology, as well as to prepare its people for an increasingly globalised world. The BOCHK SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Innovators’ Prize has played an essential role in helping us meet this goal since 2002, when the Shaw Prize Foundation was formed to administer and further promote it. Each prize winner receives a cash award of 1.2 Million U.S. Dollars while runners-up will be awarded $220,000; annually eight events take place.