October 21, 2024

A non-profit professional association open to scholars and students across the globe, SHKS aims to foster the development of new theories, concepts and methods in Hong Kong Studies. It also encourages the study of Hong Kong’s multifaceted connections with and significance in the world, both contemporary and historical.

A Cantopop star and entrepreneur, Ronald Cheng has made the most of his many talents. The Hong Kong native started his career as a singer, then became an actor and even founded a post-production company. But it’s his colourful past – including being arrested for putting a flight attendant in a headlock – that really puts him on the map as one of Hong Kong’s most popular comedians.

The Hong Kong Film Awards honour the very best in local and international cinema, from big-budget blockbusters to small independent films. This year, the award for best director was won by veteran filmmaker Benny Chan, who was posthumously honoured for his cops-and-robbers actioner Raging Fire. The film’s stars Donnie Yen and Andy Lau were among the other winners at the ceremony.

For the first time, a Hong Kong film is competing for the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Titled Ten Years, the drama is based on a true story of the Tiananmen Square protests and the ensuing crackdown. It was funded by the First Feature Film Initiative, a scheme launched in 2013 to spot emerging directing talent and fund their first feature films. The scheme has had some notable successes, but its nomination for the Cannes prize is causing some controversy.

BOCHK SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PRIZE is a merit-based award to reward scientists and research teams in Hong Kong, universities, industry-education-research bases and institutes set up by Hong Kong higher education institutions and located in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area for their significant achievements in scientific and technological innovation and transformation. The operation of the prize is conducted in line with scientific and rigorous standards, ensuring that the review process will be performed professionally, objectively and fairly.

HKJC employees regularly check and test all materials used in the draw, from boxing to transporting. Balls are also measured, weighed and x-rayed on a regular basis, and the draw machine is locked away after every use. If there is no winner of the 1st prize, the money will be added to a jackpot for the next draw, so that there is always a chance of winning a big prize.

The HK Art Prize has been awarded to nine artists from Hong Kong and abroad, making it the most represented city on this year’s shortlist. Sameen Agha, from Pakistan, won the Grand Prize for her sculptural work entitled A Home is a Terrible Place to Love, a red marble piece that depicts a house falling apart like a cardboard box. Other prize-winners included Hong Kong painter Michelle Fung for her mixed media painting Red Bean Stalk and Pakistani artist Noormah Jamal, whose work Did the Seed Grow? was a sculpture of a face and hands.