This year’s Hong Kong Marathon will welcome over 74,000 participants – 74,000 local and overseas runners alike – taking part. About 15,000 non-locals who qualify to run in full and half marathon events, according to event organisers, will join on March 18 from Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui and ending up at Victoria Park. Organisers also noted that Incentive Awards have been reduced drastically from HK$10,000 last year down to just HK$1,000 for those who complete under 3 hours for men or 3 hours 30 minutes for women finishers compared with last year’s Incentive Award of HK$10,000 awarding those who complete races under 3 hours for men or 3 hours 30 minutes respectively for women finishers this year!
At the 26th Hong Kong Press Club Awards, five Hong Kong journalists were recognized for their exceptional work at the 26th Hong Kong Press Club Awards, with Kahon Chan taking home the Best News Reporting prize for her coverage on a controversy surrounding a Dubai prince’s proposed family office in Hong Kong. Sammy Heung also earned merit winner status with her series on Hong Kong’s scientific community.
For the first time ever in its history, the Hong Kong Prize is opening up the nomination process to members of the public. Anyone wishing to nominate someone or an organisation may do so here and will then be considered in subsequent rounds of competition.
Professor Cecilia 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 published by Routledge. Established in 2023, this annual prize recognizes major scholarly works which advance planning history worldwide.
Hong Kong Science Museum (HKScM) is hosting “2024 The Future Science Prize Exhibition” until November 4 at its G/F Exhibition Hall. This exhibit presents its history, past laureates, as well as this year’s laureates – 2021 Life Science Prize Laureate Dennis Lo, Physical Science Prize Laureate Luk Kam-biu and Mathematics and Computer Science Prize Laureate Mok Ngai-ming – through interactive exhibits.
Silvestre de Sousa proved his commitment to Hong Kong by winning the top award for Best Jockey at the 25th Hong Kong Horse Racing Awards presented by Hong Kong Racing Association at an impressive ceremony held on Friday at Happy Valley Racecourse Grandstand Grandstand.
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