AIA Healthy Living Index Reveals Widespread Health Dissatisfaction Across Asia Pacific

AIA Group Limited recently unveiled Healthy Living Indices for 15 markets based on a first-of-its-kind pan-regional survey examining the healthy living habits of over 10,000 adults across Asia Pacific and their hopes and concerns for a healthier way of life. The AIA Healthy Living Index was commissioned by AIA and conducted by TNS, a leading consumer research company. Read more

Employees Deliver Helping Hands To Environmental Projects During FedEx Cares Week

FedEx Express (FedEx), a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, will kick off its fourth annual FedEx Cares Week in the Asia Pacific region.  From September 17-25 FedEx volunteers in 12 Asia markets, including Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, will donate their time to community groups and programs. This is part of a global FedEx initiative involving almost 4,000 employees around the world. Read more

FedEx awarded Best Workplace Practices at Third Global CSR Awards

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and one of the world’s largest express transportation companies, was recently presented with the Silver Award for Best Workplace Practices at the Third Global CSR Awards held in Cebu, Philippines. FedEx was recognized for its unwavering focus on maintaining a safe and rewarding environment where employees have opportunities to grow and succeed. This is the third consecutive year that FedEx has been honored for its workplace practices at the Global CSR Awards. Read more

Going Global – Corporate Social Responsibility on the move

By Jennifer Harvey (Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Crown Relocations)

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become increasingly important in recent years. Demonstrating responsible business practices to customers, employees and other key stakeholders is now a priority, and the demand for such organisations to achieve this is higher than ever. Read more

Student Entrepreneurs Honoured

Cozy Care, student-run company from Turkmenistan, took first place at the first-ever Junior Achievement Asia Pacific Company of the Year Competition, a three-day competition designed to nurture an entrepreneurship spirit and business skills in secondary school students. Read more

Astro wins Asian CSR Awards for Education & Workplace Practices

Astro won two awards at the Asian Corporate Social Responsibility Awards 2010 for the ‘Support and Improvement of Education’ and ‘Best Workplace Practices’ categories today. These awards are recognition of Astro’s commitment to its workplace practices and in providing learning opportunities to future generations of Malaysians. Read more

Migrant Workers Management Toolkit

Irene Fernandez, Executive Director of Tenaganita, recently discussed the Migrant Workers Management Toolkit at CSR Asia’s CSR Wednesday, held at Bursa Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur recently. The human rights activist put together this tool to help businesses in the region with their foreign workers. See below for the full audio on her talk and the slides from her presentation. Read more

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