Clean Water For Africa
March 31, 2009 by admin
Filed under Initiatives
The quality of life has been improved for people in Africa with the help of LANXESS AG. Last year, the specialty chemicals company entered into a partnership through to 2010 with the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), a reputed African relief organization. Rainier van Roessel, Labor Director and member of the Board of Management of LANXESS... [Read more...]
KDEB Lavished on the Balkis
By Daniel Chandranayagam Notwithstanding Malaysia’s leading regional CSR standing, a recent enquiry on Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Bhd (‘KDEB’) contributions towards the now defunct Selangor assemblymen and MPs wives charity organisation (‘Balkis’) reveals confusion on the term “CSR”. It also possibly exposes the... [Read more...]
Lights Out For Earth Hour
March 30, 2009 by admin
Filed under Editorials
It was reported that tens of thousands of businesses and households in Malaysia joined millions of others globally in turning off non-essential lights for a one-hour campaign aimed at raising awareness on the global climate crisis. The campaign, Earth Hour, was initiated by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and was Malaysia’s first participation... [Read more...]
Green Business
Originally published in Thrive Magazine (Malaysia) reproduced with kind permission. From Movement to Market Around the country and around the world, more companies and investment funds are walking their talk on tackling global climate change, because increasingly, businesses are finding that going green can be profitable. Jee Wan finds out more. “Going... [Read more...]
Business & Government Must Work With NGOs to Regain Trust
By Suresh Kr Pramar The financial meltdown has blown away the people’s trust in business worldwide. Trust in business has been the major casualty in the past year. Business scams in various parts of the world sent the people’s trust in business plummeting to almost floor level. On the other hand, trust in civil society organizations has... [Read more...]
CSR and Corporate Communications
March 6, 2009 by admin
Filed under Editorials
After having read Terrence Fernandez’s column in the Sun today, it’s little wonder that the public views the corporate giving with huge suspicion. Fernandez described, … I was utterly disgusted upon discovering recently that boardroom tactics were used on a group of cancer survivors by the representative of a corporate giant. Apparently... [Read more...]
Hiring Green
Originally published in Thrive Magazine (Malaysia) reproduced with kind permission. The buzzwords of corporate accountability today undeniably revolve around the topic of going green. Green rhetoric is fast becoming an institutional norm, with “green-collar” jobs a particular favourite of late. Mere spin, or something that bears real economic... [Read more...]
