HONG KONG – Cash incentives for athletes performing well at the Paris Olympic Games will be increased by 20%, enabling individual gold medalists to pocket up to HK$6 million ($768,000). Eric Chan made this announcement during a flag-presentation ceremony honoring Hong Kong competitors at these Games, expecting many athletes from Hong Kong will win medals and achieve great results, according to government expectation.
Prize money totalling HK$150,000 has been distributed among six teams of secondary school students who wrote reports on the topic “The Trembling Ground.” Winning entries included “A History of Pig Farming in Canton: Development of Hong Kong during 1967 Riots,” submitted by Diocesan Girls’ School; and “Frontier Restricted Area and Relationship between China and Hong Kong,” written by Lui Cheung Kwong Lutheran College.
HLC Harmonix from Lee Shau Kee College won the “School Division: Vocal Group” award, taking home both best performance and outstanding harmony prizes. Pooi To Middle School’s Pop Chorus took both championship and outstanding harmony awards.
Patrick Tse, 85-year-old veteran actor from Hong Kong and recipient of many matinee idol roles during the 50s has been active for 70 years in film, theatre and television. Tse’s performance as hitman-turned-noodle-maker in black comedy Time at this year’s Hong Kong Film Awards earned him best actor. At 85 years old he becomes the oldest winner ever.
M+ museum in Hong Kong recently unveiled the shortlist for this year’s Sigg Prize, which recognizes innovative art projects by emerging Asian and international artists. Shortlisted artists include Shanghai-based multimedia artist Bi Rongrong; Macau-born ceramicist Heidi Lau; Taiwanese visual artist Ho Rui An; Berlin composer and performer Pan Daijing; and Hong Kong multidisciplinary artist Wong Ping. A six-member jury panel selected six artists after reviewing nominations from 30 artists. The jury includes international art figures like Maria Balshaw, the director of London’s Tate museums; Gong Yan, director of Shanghai Power Station of Art; Mami Kataoka from Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum; Glenn D. Lowry from New York Museum of Modern Art and Chinese artist Xu Bing – to name but a few.
The BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize is an honorific award presented by HKAIT each year in recognition of excellence. The prize recognizes and rewards outstanding scientific accomplishments by individuals and research-related institutions established by higher education institutions in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area; each award carries an outstanding scientific accomplishment prize worth an incredible USD1.2 Million prize pool. HKAIT oversees it via their Board, consisting of Review Committee, Compliance Oversight Team and Secretariat. The BOCHK SciTech Prize Charter seeks to promote scientific management while assuring fair review process; this document was officially implemented on October 14, and provides for an independent oversight mechanism of this prize.