The Hong Kong Film Awards honors excellence in local cinema. Last year, The Last Dance made an impressionful win as it unexpectedly claimed the top prize, while Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In won best director. Veteran actor Sammo Hung received a lifetime achievement award during a ceremony held Sunday evening at Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
Generocity’s Hong Kong Global Development Prize competition seeks to gather innovative ideas on how Hong Kong could leverage its international influence to further shape the city’s Official Development Assistance (ODA). Finalists will receive an award of HK$10,000 and winners can present their ideas directly to stakeholders within Hong Kong’s development community.
This week the Asian Tour heads to Hong Kong Country Club for the LINK Hong Kong Open, where its winner will take home a $2m payout. This event marks one of eight elevated International Series tournaments taking place this year – former winners have included LIV Golf reserve Ben Campbell who claimed his maiden Asian Tour title last year at this tournament.
As part of its 25th Anniversary celebrations, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon’s title sponsor has increased prize money to HK$20 million this year – in addition to an increased jackpot pool (HK$10 million), Quartet and First 4 Merged Pool Pool prizes will increase to an unprecedented HK$2.8 million total prize pool prize pool.
Organisers of this year’s HK Marathon have introduced a special incentive award designed to increase local challengers. Under this scheme, permanent Hong Kong residents who complete the Marathon Challenge category in under 3 hours for men or 3 hours 30 minutes for women will receive a bonus award of HK$10,000 as an incentive prize.
Scholarship to Empower Hong Kong Students
The University of Queensland’s Hong Kong Alumni Prize provides exceptional academically talented undergraduate students from Hong Kong the chance to thrive at UQ. This gift includes full tuition scholarships plus living allowance and other allowances that allow recipients to spend more time studying. Previous recipients have shared with us how this support has bolstered their confidence and deepened their dedication.
Hong Kong has long been known to champion human rights, which was evident this year on the Nobel Peace Prize shortlist which featured five Hongkongers nominated by Global Scholars for Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai, Chow Hang-tung, Lee Cheuk-yan, Gwyneth Ho and Noormah Jamal were nominated by Global Scholars for Hong Kong as candidates. Also featured on this shortlist was Wong Chi-shing’s Did the Seed Grow? painting which depicts two figures looking down at their feet with empty expressions reflecting disillusionment about how their worldview differs from their counterparts’.