Winners of Global Scholarship Programme for women in travel & tourism

MasterCard Worldwide and U21Global recently announced the recipients of the MasterCard-U21Global scholarship programme for women professionals in the travel and tourism industry. Eleven women have been offered full scholarships to pursue the Postgraduate Diploma of Business Administration from U21Global, the world’s premier online Graduate School.... [Read more...]

World’s largest corporate sustainability and compliance gathering in DongGuan, PRC

The 2010 Multi-Brand Factory Compliance Summit will be held in DongGuan, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from 7-9 December. Over 800 people representing over 27 Brands will be at the event to learn from the world’s compliance leaders how to better manage corporate sustainability and compliance in their factories. [Read more...]  Read More →

Controversy surrounds Spore’s World Savers Awards Congress

Survival International has reported that the 2010 World Savers Award Congress, due to be held in Singapore on 20 October, has been met with criticism over its decision to award a prize to controversial tour operator, Wilderness Safaris. [Read more...]  Read More →

Infrastructure development company launched in Asia

InfraCo Asia to bridge critical development gap across South and Southeast Asia by providing development expertise and early stage capital to kick start infrastructure development. In the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, KG, and the British High Commissioner to Singapore, His Excellency Paul Madden, InfraCo Asia was officially... [Read more...]

Standard Chartered kicks off Children’s Day with Liverpool Experience

Standard Chartered recently celebrated Children’s Day with a football-themed event at its flagship Battery Road branch, hosted especially for 30 children from Beyond Social Services (BSS). The branch was transformed into a mini-football pitch as children and Senior Executives alike had a ball of a time with penalty shootouts, foosball matches and... [Read more...]

WWF 2010 Living Planet finds tropics in decline as natural resources exhausted at alarming rate

New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report – the leading survey of the planet’s health. [Read more...]  Read More →

Gimme Some Truth – Greenwashing vs Sustainability

Courtesy of Centre of Sustainability and Exellence Nikos Avlonas President of the Centre for Sustainability & Excellence (CSE) North America and John Friedman, co-Founder of Sustainable Business Network of Washington (SBNOW) discuss ‘Green washing vs. Sustainability’ in continuation to a successful Roundtable on Green Marketing held in September... [Read more...]

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