Mark Six lottery has announced a special “snowball prize” to mark Hong Kong’s 40th Anniversary, offering each winning ticket an amount of HK$705,770!
Prof. Cecilia L. Chu has won the 2024 International Planning History Society Book Prize with her monograph Building Colonial Hong Kong: Speculative Development and Segregation in the City. This major scholarly award recognizes work that advances planning history worldwide, and will be presented at the 2025 IPHS conference in Sydney.
At the Shaw Prize Forum, distinguished scholars and scientists from around the globe will join us to share their research journeys and knowledge. We look forward to your presence at this memorable event!
The Shaw Prize is a renowned international science award. Each year, three prizes are presented in astronomy, life science/medicine/mathematics and mathematics to recognize outstanding accomplishments that have an international scientific impact.
In 1996, friends and students of late Professor John D. Young raised funds to establish this scholarship that is awarded annually to a postgraduate research student studying Hong Kong history. It is endowed by the Hong Kong Jockey Club and administered by the Society for Hong Kong Studies.
Each winner of the prize will receive a certificate and cash award of HK$20,000, along with an opportunity to present their written report during a panel interview conducted by judges. Their written reports are judged based on relevance to theme, systematic use of collected materials, objective analysis techniques and proper citation of bibliographies/footnotes.
This prize is open to undergraduate and postgraduate students from Mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong and designed to encourage them to embrace challenges associated with scientific research and development while striving for excellence. Universities, researchers, and innovative enterprises may work together on jointly promoting this award and their respective fields of study.
Each prize of HK$100,000 will be matched by the Government’s Sixth Round of Research Grants Scheme for postgraduate research projects, while any remaining amount will be placed into an endowment fund to assist its winners long term.
Tencent Foundation has sponsored the Xplorer Prize 2022 to recognize and reward young scientists aged 45 or under from across Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau who are exploring uncharted frontiers of advanced interdisciplinary studies. Applications may be selected for one of 50 awards across 10 fields with top two awardees receiving RMB 3 million over five years – among the highest talent funding programs for young scientists in China.
The BOCHK Science and Technology Innovation Prize family includes The Xplorer Prize as part of their awards to recognize and encourage scientists in the Greater Bay Area to continue exploring, innovating and applying their research achievements towards benefitting humanity.