Haiti: Is Your Money Going Where It’s Supposed To?

The amount of money heading to (or already in) Haiti is staggering. Just take a look at the Huffington Post’s list of corporate donations from the USA! In fact, Reuters reported that the USA plans to give more to Haiti than to the tsunami disaster victims, amounting to a cool USD519 mill on 27 Jan 2010. In Malaysia, L’Oreal, Air Asia and... [Read more...]

The Ethics of Credit Cards

By Daniel Chandranayagam Anyone empathizing with Rebecca Bloomwood in Confessions of a Shopaholic might wonder if credit cards could ever be ‘ethical’. But ‘ethical’ proves to be an attractive communications tool, so what is said to be the world’s first ethical credit card, the ‘think’ card hit the UK markets for the conscientious shopper.... [Read more...]

Nigerian CSR Legislation: Good News or Bad?

By Charlotte Morgan The Nigerian Government’s decision to issue a bill which legislates CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) on a national level has been met with a fierce wave of criticism, which has now spread rapidly across the world. The bill, which was first announced in February 2009, proposes to make obligatory a 3.5% donation of companies’... [Read more...]

Najib Tun Razak’s First Take on CSR

Newly minted Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mr. Najib Tun Razak, has asked employers to make full use of tax incentives at their office. Prime Minister Najib was reported to have said: I would like to urge the private sector to fulfill their corporate social responsibility by providing childcare facilities at the workplace for their employees. According... [Read more...]

Lights Out For Earth Hour

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...]

CSR and Corporate Communications

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...]

Nigeria: Legislating CSR

By Daniel Chandranayagam Nigeria might be the first country in the world to legislate on corporate social responsibility (CSR). A bill which proposes that businesses spend 3.5% of its gross profits on CSR is making its way through  the National Assembly.  While there have been many definitions of “CSR”, “tax” has never been... [Read more...]

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