Social responsibility must be integral to business strategy to succeed

Walmart unveiled its global sustainable agriculture goals recently, with which the company seeks to help buy more from small and mid-sized farmers around the world; reduce food waste and sustainably source key agricultural products. [Read more...]  Read More →

Grameen Foundation, Qualcomm & Bakrie Telecom Announce Application Laboratory in Indonesia

Grameen Foundation, together with Qualcomm Incorporated, through its Wireless Reach™ initiative, and Bakrie Telecom, recently announced the launch of the Application Laboratory in Indonesia (AppLab Indonesia). Building on Grameen Foundation’s pioneering AppLab initiative in Uganda, AppLab Indonesia delivers new and innovative products, information... [Read more...]

CA Technologies and Siemens Form Carbon Management Alliance

Siemens IT Solutions and Services and CA Technologies have today announced a strategic alliance to provide carbon and sustainability management tools and processes that measure, assess and report environmental impact and performance within an organisation. The collaboration will combine CA Technologies and its CA ecoSoftware suite with Siemens’ multi-discipline... [Read more...]

Higher integration of sustainable practices for Msian listed companies

Bursa Malaysia recently launched its Business Sustainability Programme in line with its call to Malaysian public-listed companies to integrate sustainability elements into their business strategies. Together with this, the country’s regulator also launched Powering Business Sustainability – A Guide for Directors, which aims to assist directors... [Read more...]

The World That Changes The World

By Alan Wong Thanks to modern technology, bad news are delivered with great speed and in huge amounts. We are barraged by “Have you heard?”, “OMG!”, and of course, “Look at this!”, which is often followed by “Spread the word!” or, if you’re on Facebook, “Please ‘Like’ This.” So far, over 200,000 Malaysian Facebook users have... [Read more...]

Sustainability Efforts Go Largely Unnoticed

Considering the magnitude of corporate sustainability initiatives in the marketplace today and the vast sums of dollars backing them, it is difficult to comprehend that companies wouldn’t be getting more credit for their efforts. Yet this is a key finding in a new report, Marketing Sustainability 2010: Bridging the Gap Between Consumers and Companies,... [Read more...]

Largest classical music mentorship programme for youths in Singapore

The Singapore National Youth Orchestra (SNYO) is organizing the largest classical music mentorship programme for youths in Singapore from November 24 to 29. Under the invitation of German specialty chemicals company LANXESS, French horn virtuoso Stewart Rose will conduct a lecture demonstration and hold a series of master classes. Significantly, this... [Read more...]

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