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Shaw Prize laureates announced

This year's winners of Asia's most prestigious award for scientific research, the Shaw Prize, are announced in Hong Kong. Prizes for astronomy, life science and medicine, and mathematical science will be presented at a ceremony in September. Each prize is worth US$1 million. The awards, sometimes referred to as Asia's Nobels, were created in 2002 by Hong Kong film tycoon Run Run Shaw.

 

An inquest concludes in Singapore into the death of American scientist Shane Todd, who was found hanged in his flat in the city-state last year. Todd's parents, Rick and Mary, left Singapore last week before the conclusion of the inquest. They said they had lost faith in the process and that evidence of suicide presented by the police was fake. They believe his death was linked to his work.

 

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