The Singapore Prize recognizes and encourages those using design as their primary tool to address real-life challenges in Singapore, recognizing their accomplishments and efforts to help overcome them. Furthermore, it hopes to foster creativity among Singaporeans to use design to solve real problems more creatively.
The Prize will be distributed among five categories.
On Thursday evening, Singapore held its inaugural science and technology award ceremony to honour some of its leading researchers and innovations. Hosted by Enterprise Singapore, this inaugural event brought together many dignitaries and celebrities such as violinist Dmytro Udovychenko, Anna Agafia Egholm, Joel Smirnoff as well as violinist Anna Agafia Egholm as well as musician Joel Smirnoff to celebrate this historic occasion. Additionally, Joshua Kangming Tan conducted the Singapore Symphony Orchestra before unveiling the winners from this year’s Singapore International Violin Competition winners; Dmytro Udovychenko took home USD 1110k while Anna Agafia Egholm brought USD $25,000, while Angela Sin Ying Chan took home USD $15K!
After purchasing snacks at a hawker centre in Singapore, a bus passenger noticed four-digit lottery ticket with winning numbers on it that he believed belonged to someone. He immediately alerted police and published his story in Shin Min Daily News with hopes of finding its owner of S$1 Million prize money.
Shubigi Rao’s Pulp III: An Intimate Inventory Of The Banished Book won the best English creative non-fiction prize at the Singapore Literature Prize 2024, outwitting five other shortlisted works and becoming his second consecutive win of this type at that event. Additionally, Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger Memoirs won him the Singapore History Prize two years prior. A new Arts and Multimedia category was introduced in 2025 and welcomes any artist, writer, playwright composer or producer whose work uses artistic forms to explore any field or theme related to Singapore history.
The inaugural prize was bestowed in 2022 to violinists Dmytro Udovychenko from Singapore, Anna Agafia Egholm from Norway and Angela Sin Ying Chan of Singapore – each winning an additional concert engagement as part of their awards.
India-made solar-powered dryers, a soil carbon marketplace and groups restoring Andean forests and deterring illegal fishing have won this year’s Earthshot Prize awards. Prince William of Britain who initiated this 10-year prize program said Tuesday that these 15 finalists demonstrated hope despite climate change worsening and biodiversity loss increasing.
Each of the ten winners received a stipend of SGD 10,000 and will take part in an overseas internship programme with leading Chinese technology companies or venture capital firms starting in 2025, lasting at least three months and providing them with entrepreneurial training as well as opportunities to meet with established entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in addition to receiving cash payments totalling at least SGD 2,000 each and a Singapore Valley Award trophy.
