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A prize for short fiction whose subject is travel. First place receives $5000 and is published in Overland; two runners-up will each be awarded $750. Supported by the Malcolm Robertson Foundation and named after Neilma Gantner, this prize is open to writers nationally and internationally at any stage of their writing careers. Imaginative, creative and literary interpretations of the theme are encouraged.

Everything today is getting shorter. Essays become op-eds. Blog posts are Twitter tweets. The Sidney Prize stands athwart technology, yelling “Stop!” Several times each year, the prize celebrates long-form journalism and thought. The winner of this year’s prize is Peter Wood, who writes a fascinating piece in the Weekly Standard that explores the long-term harms of hook-up culture.

The 2024 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature is awarded to former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove. Dove has won the National Humanities Medal and the 2011 National Medal of Arts, the only writer to have received both awards from the federal government. She is also the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and has written many books, including “The House on Mango Street” and “A Song of Ice and Fire.”

Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies has announced the 2024 winner of its annual Sidney Taylor Book Award. The award recognizes a book that has contributed significantly to the understanding and appreciation of the region. The winner is a work of fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Previous winners include “The Last Day of the War,” by Philip Roth; “The Book of Ruth,” by Anne Patchett; and “A Place Called Home,” by Sandra Civacki.

The prestigious Sidney Howard Memorial Award was a prize for new playwrights in the early 1900s, sponsored by the New York-based Playwrights’ Company to encourage the development of promising young talent. The prize was vacated after the death of the award’s founder in 1939. Among the playwrights who won the prize were Robert Ardrey and Tennessee Williams.

This annual prize is given to the best book on the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the prior calendar year. The 2024 winner is Dr. Emily Michelson (University of St. Andrews), Catholic Spectacle and Rome’s Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance (Princeton University Press, 2022).

The annual Sidney Taylor Prize for Younger Readers is awarded for a middle grade or young adult title that shows exceptional promise in its ability to appeal to readers of all ages. The publisher must have demonstrated a commitment to the advancement of children’s literature and publishing by providing quality literature that inspires learning and imagination through storytelling. A copy of the winning book will be donated to the AJL Library. The winner is selected by a committee of librarians. This year’s committee was chaired by AJL Board member and librarian and library educator Libby Cox. A complete list of past winners can be found on the AJL website. For more information, visit the AJL bookstore page.

Data hk is an engineered platform to collect, process and display public data. Its aim is to promote the use of open government data and information for policy formulation, needs assessment and monitoring and evaluation of public services. It has been designed to integrate data from various databases of the Department of Health and other public agencies. The data can be accessed through the internet and retrieved in formats that are compatible with spreadsheets, maps, charts etc. This enables researchers to conduct more sophisticated analyses and generate more in-depth reports on issues and trends related to the health of Hong Kong residents.

Whether your company is transferring data out of Hong Kong or into it, it’s important to understand the rules governing these transfers. Padraig Walsh from the Tanner De Witt Data Privacy practice group walks us through some of the key points to note.

The first thing to consider is the definition of “personal data.” For example, in Hong Kong’s Personal Data Protection Act (“PDPA”), the term ‘personal data’ includes data relating to an identifiable natural person (that is, one who can be identified from the data or from other information): “…information about the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of an individual” [emphasis added].

If the data does not meet this definition, it will likely not be subject to the PDPA’s transfer provisions. In addition, the PDPA provides that the data user must not permit any third party to use or hold the personal data transferred outside of Hong Kong for purposes other than those expressly contemplated by the transferring data user. The importing data user must also agree to model contractual clauses that will comply with the PDPA’s transfer provisions.

Finally, the importing data user must verify that it has lawful grounds to receive the personal data. This step is a bit less onerous in Hong Kong than under GDPR, where the data user must review its PICS to ensure that it has the voluntary and express consent of the data subject to use their personal data for the new purpose and to transfer it to another country.

Having a strategic digital infrastructure foothold in a top Asian business hub is vital to the success of your global expansion. As the leading regional internet exchange and a carrier-dense network hub, Hong Kong is the gateway to China and Southeast Asia for many of the world’s largest cloud providers. Equinix’s Hong Kong IBX data centers give you direct network access to these companies and to the data of their customers around the world. The data centers are located in multiple distinct sites around the city to form a connected campus that supports geographically distributed, high-availability deployments of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and other mission critical applications.