The Singapore Prize recognizes individuals or organisations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in shaping our vibrant city-state into an internationally acclaimed hub of creativity, technology and innovation. This annual award comes with a cash prize of S$2 Million; its inaugural recipient was revealed in December 2018.
Established in 2009, this prize is among Singapore’s highest accolades bestowed upon researchers. It recognises their contributions towards upholding research excellence and building a stronger community of scientific talent in Singapore. Formerly known as President’s Science and Technology Awards (NSTA), the Presidential status was awarded upon it in 2009.
With its mission of “engaging and enriching the public through engaging, fun and meaningful sports experiences”, the National Sport Agency seeks to encourage Singaporeans to share in the joy of living a healthy lifestyle with their loved ones and friends. Through various sporting events and initiatives organized by this Agency, Singaporeans are also encouraged to serve and connect with their community more meaningfully.
The Agency hosts many premier events such as the Singapore Marathon, SEA Games, National Swimming Championships and Tennis Open. Other programs offered by this agency include ActiveSG Scholarship Program, SportSG Elite Sports Programme and Enhancing Human Performance by Exercise Book Prize.
Singapore Masters Golf Championship, first known as Singapore International Masters and inaugurated in 1968 as an Asian golf competition is one of Asia’s oldest and most renowned tournaments, boasting one of its oldest and prestigious sporting competitions with a prize pool worth US$12 Million that includes $2.5 Million as champion’s prize money.
An annual prize awarded by the NUS Department of History to honor publications that contribute to a greater understanding of Singapore’s past and future is administered by an assessment committee that measures both historical significance and impact in relation to understanding Singaporean history. Not limited to period- or subject matter-specific works, but open to any book-length work written in English that addresses Singaporean history can qualify.
In 2018, the inaugural Singapore Prize was given to Prof John Miksic’s work entitled, Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea: 1300-1800 which provides archaeological evidence dating back over 700 years ago when Singapore first emerged on the map. Hidayah Amin’s Leluhur: Singapore Kampong Gelam earned Hidayah the prize in 2021, thanks to its contribution of historical knowledge and appreciation of urban life in Singapore. Judges were highly complimentary of the work’s “synthesis of scholarship and primary sources”, oral histories as an essential source of data and author’s personal contributions that made her writing “an affirmation for ordinary citizens that you don’t need to be an academic historian in order to have something significant to say about Singapore’s past”.