Balasubramanian Chithambaram of Singapore recently won an astounding US$1 Million (over Rs 8 Crore) after purchasing gold jewelry for his wife from Mustafa Jewellery three months earlier. Chithambaram, who works at an engineering firm and plans on using his prize to secure his family’s future and help charitable causes with it, announced his win during an event hosted by Mustafa Jewellery called Civil Service Club@Tessensohn on November 24. In order to be eligible for participation in this lucky draw event customers had to spend over S$250 on purchases to qualify.
Singapore’s government is taking steps to encourage more young people to become entrepreneurs and create jobs, by offering the Young Entrepreneurs of the Year Award 2024 worth S$100,000 (over Rs 60 lakh) as a prize for two entrepreneurs who have created businesses within four years. Two winners will be chosen.
Singapore’s leading book publishing company has resumed submissions for their renowned fiction prize, the Epigram Books Fiction Prize (EBFP). This competition accepts unpublished fiction manuscripts with translation rights that carry an award of up to $6,000 per author; previously suspended due to 2024 suspensions.
Singapore Literature Prize (SLP) for the first time includes a Best Debut category for writers, translators and comic artists in addition to fiction, non-fiction and poetry categories. Furthermore, SLP now recognizes literary work published across four official languages of Singaporean – Chinese English Malay Tamil – along with biannual award. Previous winners included poet Marylyn Tan, historian Wang Gungwu as well as literary pioneer Peter Ellinger’s 91-year old Down Memory Lane award win in 1991.
Singapore International Violin Competition 2022 has awarded three top violinists, Dmytro Udovychenko, Anna Agafia Egholm, and Angela Sin Ying Chan with USD $110,000 prizes each – in addition to this cash award they will each also be receiving multiple concert engagements in Singapore.
Unfortunately, that era seems over. Here we are in 2025 and it still doesn’t make much difference in terms of economic development and climate change mitigation efforts. AI Singapore has initiated the Online Safety Prize Challenge as part of their efforts to promote safer interactions online globally. This 10-week competition seeks to advance AI research on multimodal, multilingual, and zero-shot models capable of distinguishing benign from harmful memes in Singapore’s digital ecosystem. This competition is generously supported by Infocomm Development Authority, Ministry of Communications and Information, National University of Singapore and ETH Zurich. Identification of early-stage teams with exceptional solutions that could scale to facilitate safer and more responsible digital interactions in other regions is a global challenge. All interested parties can learn about and submit entries by visiting the competition website. Winners will be selected by an esteemed jury panel composed of experts from around the globe led by Professor Mahbubani; judges will assess submissions according to four criteria.