The First Kiteboarder To Win A Million SGD Could Walk Away With A Singapore Prize
A Singapore-based company has won the Group 2 prize in the 2024 Toto Lotto draw, according to the Toto results website. The winning ticket, purchased online via the Singapore Pools app, was number 773889. The winnings will be split among 12 winning tickets at $127,391 per share. This is the biggest amount ever won in the country’s largest lottery game.
SKOLKATOPPERS IN SINGAPORE COULD WIN A MILLION SGD
A kiteboarder who has become the first Singaporean to win an Olympic medal could walk away with a million Singapore dollars ($753,579) payout, thanks to an award from the nation’s major sports council. Singapore’s National Olympic Council has introduced a new award programme, which offers cash payouts for athletes who win gold medals at the Olympics and Asian and Commonwealth Games.
The winner of the inaugural Singapore History Prize will be announced next month. The National University of Singapore’s (NUS) History Prize was created in 2014 to honour works that look at historical events from a personal perspective. This forgoes the traditional view of history as a record of big movers and shakers, says NUS academic Kishore Mahbubani, who runs the prize committee.
The top prize is worth $50,000, while the runners-up will each receive $25,000, NUS said in a statement. The shortlist includes books such as Imperial Creatures (2019, available here), which explores the relationship between humans and animals in colonial Singapore, and Home Is Where We Are (2020, available here), which follows the experiences of an extended family through political movements and detentions.
Another work to make the list is Kamaladevi Aravindan’s novel Sembawang (2020, available here), which tells a story of five decades at an estate in the city-state. Sembawang is also up for a Readers’ Favorite prize, which invites the public to vote online for their favourite book on the list.
Britain’s Prince William will travel to Singapore this week for the announcement of this year’s winners of the Earthshot Prize, a competition to find technologies that can tackle climate change. He will meet with local groups to see how they are fighting the global trade in wildlife products, which is estimated to be worth $20 billion a year. William, who created the $10 million annual prize in 2020, chose Singapore for this year’s ceremony because it is a “hub for innovation in Asia”. He will try his hand at dragon boating and visit law enforcement and conservation groups to see how they are trying to combat the illegal trade in animal products. The final winners will be honoured at a ceremony in the city-state on Tuesday. The event will be broadcast on the BBC.