At Tuesday’s Earthshot Prize event in Singapore, solar-powered dryer makers, soil carbon marketplaces, cleaner electric car batteries and groups working to restore Andean forests or prevent illegal fishing were honored with awards from Prince William of Britain’s Royal Foundation charity – who launched this 10-year award program back in 2020 – as winners. He said their solutions proved there is still “hope” despite global climate change’s devastating impacts.
BBH won Gold in the Digital Communications category for their transformative campaign for Income Insurance, which successfully communicated a complex message to the public using an engaging narrative that resonated with them. It serves as an excellent example of how traditional industries can be elevated through innovative communication strategies.
Winners were chosen from over 200 submissions, and will each receive up to $3,000 Singapore dollars (US$2,158) in cash prize and a custom-made trophy from our panel of judges from the global finance community.
Winning medals at an Olympic Games requires an enormous financial investment over years of training, so Singapore’s National Olympic Council established in the 90s an incentive scheme to reward medalists at international sporting events with significant payouts known as Major Games Award Programme (MAP) for able-bodied athletes and Athletes’ Achievement Awards (AAA) for para-athletes; these payments act as significant supplements to their salaries.
Critics claim the schemes aren’t transparent enough and favour certain athletes and sports, not providing enough money for all Singaporeans wishing to compete in Olympic competition or world-class events.
Mustafa Jewellery held a lucky draw to thank its customers for supporting its 21st birthday celebrations on November 24. Balasubramanian Chithambaram, who works as a project engineer at a local firm, won an impressive grand prize of more than $1 Million which he plans to use to secure his family’s future as well as support charitable causes with.
Singapore Literature Prize 2022 winners have been announced. The biennial Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) honors 12 writers representing Chinese, English, Malay and Tamil languages on Singapore Island.
The SLP will introduce a new award this year, the Best Debut Author Award, to honor debut authors writing in any of its four languages. This category replaces Readers’ Favourite and is open to shortlisted works across all four categories. 91-year-old NUS professor emeritus Peter Ellinger made history when his memoir Down Memory Lane won English fiction prize; Malay-language author Suratman Markasan and Chinese-language author Wang Gungwu shared nonfiction wins; rma cureess received readers’ favourite Tamil award.