The winning snap, on ST's website

See photos, stories and other works that won at recent news awards event

An aerial view, shot in March last year, shows snaking queues as people try to make it into Parliament House to pay their last respects to Mr Lee Kuan Yew. ST photojournalist Desmond Foo clinched the News Picture of the Year award for this photo. PHOTO: ST FILE

Straits Times senior writer Wong Kim Hoh (right) with one of his interviewees, Mr Toh Chin Siong, a used furniture salesman, and his daughter Brillyn, at the launch of the writer’s book, It Changed My Life, at UE Square in November last year. Mr Wong was named Journalist of the Year for his work, including the It Changed My Life series in The Sunday Times, which tells stories of everyday people doing extraordinary things. PHOTO: ST FILE

Infographics journalist Chng Choon Hiong and executive artist Tay Chern Hui won Infographics of the Year for “A peek into the past”, which offered a sample of some specimens to be displayed at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore's first natural history museum.

Senior executive sub-editor Denise Chong bagged the Layout/Page Design of the Year award for her work on “Living History”, a print supplement that marked The Straits Times’ 170th anniversary last July.

ST’s Sally Lam, Lim Kai Li, Ng Kai Ling, David Gan, Basil Edward Teo, Chang Ai-Lien and Tay Hwee Peng won Best Digital Package of the Year for “Lee Kuan Yew: The Final Journey”, an e-book in The Straits Times Star app. It compiles over 100 images from the seven days of national mourning, as well as video and audio clips.
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Melissa Lin

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Mar 05, 2016, 05:00 AM

The Black Knights - the Republic of Singapore Air Force aerobatics team - flying in formation over the South China Sea during a training session in preparation to celebrate Singapore's jubilee year. This photo, "Ready to soar for Singapore's Golden Jubilee", bagged executive photojournalist Alphonsus Chern the Feature Picture of the Year at the news awards ceremony on Thursday. PHOTO: ST FILE

Six red-and-white fighter jets, flying in formation over the South China Sea, leaving a bomb burst of smoke trails behind them.

An aerial view of the crowds at the Padang lining up to pay their last respects to Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew following his death last year.

And an exclusive interview with jailed Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo, the man embroiled in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad saga, in which he confessed to trying to sell stolen data to topple Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

These are some of the stories and photographs by journalists from The Straits Times (ST) that picked up the top prizes at Singapore Press Holdings' English/Malay/Tamil Media group's annual news awards ceremony on Thursday.

The winning pieces can be viewed on ST's website at http://str.sg/ZyVY.

ST won big at the ceremony, bagging 12 of the 19 awards.

The awards were decided by top editors from the various newspapers and stretched across several categories in news and features, infographics as well as visual and digital packages.

ST senior writer Wong Kim Hoh, 54, was named Journalist of the Year, for his work which includes the interview series It Changed My Life.

Indochina bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh, 56, and Malaysia correspondent Shannon Teoh, 34, won Story of the Year for their scoop on Justo and the 1MDB scandal.

Executive photojournalist Alphonsus Chern, 36, bagged a hat-trick of awards.

He won Feature Picture of the Year for his photograph of the Republic of Singapore Air Force's Black Knights and Best Interactive Infographics for a piece on the National Gallery Singapore.

Together with executive photographer Ng Sor Luan, 37, Mr Chern also picked up the Best Video of the Year for their three-minute clip, Trailing The Knights, a behind-the-scenes look at the team's training.

ST also swept the multimedia awards, including the Best Cross Media Story of the Year and Best Digital Package for its coverage of Mr Lee's death and legacy.

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The winning pieces can be viewed on ST's website at http://str.sg/ZyVY.

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