Singapore Prize and Voted Product of the Year AwardsSingapore Prize and Voted Product of the Year Awards
Singapore, Dec 28 — A 70-year-old Singapore man has become a millionaire after winning the first prize in a 4D lottery ticket from Changi Airport newsstand on Dec 28, matching all winning numbers – successfully retrieving his prize money!
Singapore firms have been honored at this year’s Voted Product of the Year (VPOY) show, which celebrates consumer favourites across different categories. Candine apple fruit from French cooperative Blue Whale was declared winner in Freshness category while Changi Transit won Transportation category – both results being announced Monday.
The VPOY was established in 1995 to acknowledge the efforts of locally-owned, privately held businesses that have significantly contributed to economic development, social progress and national prestige. Each year more than 100 categories are awarded to enterprises which excelled in various sectors from food and beverages through healthcare/lifestyle to technology/infrastructure.
Judges also gave several additional commendations: Khir Johari’s The Food of the Singapore Malays: Gastronomic Travels Through the Archipelago was awarded with a Merit Prize while Woon Tai Ho’s Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 received an Honorary Mention.
At an award ceremony held on Tuesday evening in Singapore, the winners of the 2023 Earthshot Prize were honored at a ceremony hosted by NUS Centre for Environment and Sustainability and sponsored by Temasek and GenZero. Presentations by Accion Andina, GRST Technologies S4S Technologies WildAid Marine Programme among others took place.
SUSS has increased their prize pool from S$50,000 to S$100,000 and added a new category, Arts and Multimedia Category. This category will alternate every three years with Book Category; works submitted here must engage deeply with Singapore history while offering new insights or sparking the imaginations of Singaporeans about our past.
A prize committee will select winners in each category for an awards ceremony to take place in 2027, judged by an esteemed panel of five scholars chaired by Professor Kishore Mahbubani – Distinguished Fellow at NUS Asia Research Institute.
The inaugural VPOY will award its winner with a trophy designed by artist and designer Yong Seong-Kook, while all ten finalists will be given cash prizes of S$5,000 each. In addition, top ten winners will have the opportunity to attend an intensive workshop on entrepreneurship with internationally-recognized experts; six of those participants will then compete in a final pitch session for a grand prize of S$50,000 that will be announced during a gala dinner at National Museum of Singapore on Nov 8! Read up more on these prizes here!