Bursa Malaysia Plans ESG Index

Bursa Malaysia’s chief executive officer, Datuk Yusli Mohamed Yusoff, announced recently that Malaysia’s stock exchange plans to have its own Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Index in the next few years. This is said to be a bid to to attract investors with increasing awareness of this area, Datuk Yusli was reported to have said... [Read more...]

Kraft Food Employees Make a Difference

Employees in 32 Kraft Foods businesses around the world plan to participate in a week of volunteerism and community engagement, with Kraft Foods Asia Pacific kicking off its new community programme at the Singapore Children’s Society’s Sunbeam Place. Other programmes  across the region will join in as part of Kraft Foods’ single largest volunteer... [Read more...]

Support in Bangkok For International Climate Change Day

An international day of action to raise awareness on climate change took place in Bangkok recently. The driver behind the events is 350.org, an international campaign dedicated to uniting the world in the search for solutions to the climate crisis. The name “350″ refers to the maximum desired level of Co2 in the atmosphere.   Currently... [Read more...]

Malaysia: GLCs Need To Improve in Transformation Programmes

Government-linked companies (GLC) need to progress further to sustain their performance and meet the transformation programme objectives by 2015, according to a report released by the Finance Ministry recently. Launched in 2004, the 10-year GLC Transformation programme is a bid to raise GLC performance to be on par with domestic competitors, and to... [Read more...]

Malaysian Gov’t Wants to Help Less Fortunate

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is something the Malaysian government is serious in promoting so that the needs of the less fortunate are alleviated. Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, was reported to have said that a CSR fund totalling RM100 million will be established soon, as announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak... [Read more...]

The GRI Readers’ Choice Awards

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s most widely used sustainability reporting framework provider, and its partners invite both readers and sustainability reports teams to participate in their second global survey. The objective of the GRI Readers’ Choice Awards is to determine what sustainability report users worldwide think of... [Read more...]

The New Face of CSR in Australia

By James Chua In November 2007, Dr Leeora Black, the managing director of Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, wrote in The Age (Business section, 27 November 2007) that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Australia would be given increasing visibility by the Rudd Government, spelling a new outlook on the way businesses approach... [Read more...]

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