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

Standard Chartered educates 1.4 mill on HIV prevention globally

Standard Chartered announced recently that it has exceeded its 2010 target to help educate one million people on HIV and AIDS. Working with governments, other businesses, communities and health organisations globally, the Bank educated 1.4 mill people over three years through its HIV and AIDS workplace education programme “Living with HIV”. Read more

Bursa Malaysia wants sustainability as part of boardroom agenda

Bursa Malaysia Bhd will launch its Business Sustainability Programme soon, in a bid to engage directors of public listed companies on Malaysia‘s stock exchange in making sustainability practices a boardroom agenda. 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

M’sia: Plantations Need To Be Serious In Helping Workers

The Malaysian government recently called on plantations to take their corporate social responsibility (CSR) seriously, and to make efforts to address the grievances of their workers in a holistic manner. Read more

Malaysian Railway Workers Protest

The Railwaymen’s Union of Malaya intends to protest against a move by Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) to allow its Electric Train Services (ETS) to be managed by a subsidiary company, ET Sdn Bhd (ET). Read more

Asia Pacific Employee Benefits Conference 2010

The second annual Asia Pacific Employee Benefits Conference–APEB 2010 (previously known as Singapore Employee Benefits Conference–SEBC) is the first conference in Singapore and the region to focus exclusively on the latest developments and best practices in the use of ‘Employee Benefits’ (‘non-cash’ benefits) as an effective, long-term strategy to attract, retain and motivate employees. Read more

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