The SGP Prize is a biennial international award that honors cities for their dedication to building vibrant, liveable, and sustainable urban communities. The Prize pays tribute to key leaders and organizations within cities for demonstrating foresight, good governance and innovation in addressing challenges that threaten healthy, prosperous environments in urban settings.

This year’s winner of the Sustainable Global Power (sgp) Prize was Bilbao for its innovative approach to creating a greener, healthier and more socially connected urban community. Established in 2011, this prize seeks to promote best practice in urban sustainability by rewarding outstanding city initiatives; furthermore it seeks to inspire cities worldwide to accept both its challenges and opportunities with regards to becoming sustainable in order to guarantee a future where people want to live and work.

In 2024, an anonymous donor doubled the prize amount to $100,000 and introduced “The Arts and Multimedia Category”, in addition to the Book Category that had previously existed since 2014. Each three years thereafter, prizes would alternate between these categories.

As more states legalize sports betting, single-game parlays (SGPs) have grown increasingly popular with bettors due to their exciting payout potential and engaging betting strategy. Although these bets may seem risky at first glance, experienced bettors can increase their odds by using advanced strategies such as research, correlation, and bankroll management to boost their chances of success.

Same Game Parlays (SGPs) are betting strategies in which all of the individual bets, known as legs, come from one event. Their odds tend to be adjusted accordingly because many different wagers within an SGP often relate in some way; for instance if you bet on both winning team and quarterback throwing for more than 300 yards it is likely related.

While you could, in theory, take out a loan against it as collateral against its repayment in full, this may not always be possible due to your location and/or credit status. In such instances it would be prudent for the individual to seek alternative means of funding their studies – for example through private tutoring sessions rather than making use of public transport networks and available facilities such as trains. The Singapore Book Prize has recognized several books written by authors from Singapore. Former ST journalist Clara Chow won in English creative non-fiction for her travelogue New Orleans; former Straits Times columnist Yvonne Yap won for Not Great But At Least Something; Chinese poet Xu Zhi’s Lousy Love Poems won Chinese poetry, while author Jenny Bulstrode received Malay fiction recognition with The Last Embrace by author/novelist Jenny Bulstrode. This year, 49 works have been shortlisted in various English and Malay categories. Finalists will be revealed on 23 May; the winning book will receive a cash prize of $70,000 along with medal and trophy awards; all other finalists will each be presented with $3,000 prizes. Lists of shortlisted books are now available online, judged by prominent academics from Britain, Philippines and USA. UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, has sponsored this award since 2009 – this marks their sixth time doing so!