Prestigious Global CSR Awards 2012 To Recognise Outstanding CSR Programmes

The Global CSR Awards, one of Asia’s most prestigious recognition awards programme for corporate social responsibility is back for the fourth successive year. The awards will be held in conjunction with The Global CSR Summit 2012. Read more

TELUS International Receives Prestigious Stevie Award for CSR Video

TELUS International has won a coveted Stevie Award for a video highlighting its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives in the Philippines. Filmed in Manila, Philippines, the short video features TELUS International president Jeffrey Puritt with almost 2,000 TELUS International team members working together to build homes and create safer communities for the homeless during the annual TELUS Day of Service. TELUS International also received an honorary mention in the Stevie Award’s Video and Film category for the video documenting its CSR work in Central America. Read more

‘The Hapinoy Program’ Wins Project Inspire Grand Prize

The Singapore National Committee for UN Women (UN Women Singapore) and MasterCard Worldwide recently awarded a USD25,000 Women’s Empowerment grant to ‘The Hapinoy Program’ from the Philippines at the Project Inspire: 5 Minutes to Change the World Grand Finals held at the INSEAD Asia Campus in Singapore. Read more

Third Global CSR 2011 Awards Winners Recognized

Ten companies in Asia were recognized for their outstanding corporate social responsibility initiatives, world-class products, programs and services at the 3^rd Annual Global CSR Awards 2011 held in conjunction with The Global CSR 2011 Summit last 11^th August 2011 in the beautiful city of Cebu, Philippines which is also known as the “Queen City of the South”. Read more

Malaysia: New nonprofit for journalists and bloggers

In a bid to defence the media and to promote of freedom of expression in Southeast Asia, a new nonprofit organisation was launched recently. The Southeast Asia Media Legal Defence Network (SEAMLDN) aims to provide legal assistance to journalists and media organisations, support training and also to promote the exchange of information and strategies among lawyers working on media freedom cases. Read more

Ayala: Taking care of the bottom line while seeking a social impact

By Bernadette Reyes, Manila. Courtesy of INSEAD Knowledge.

“Businesses cannot simply operate in societies that are plagued with extreme poverty and where the environment is severely degraded. It is important for businesses to build in solutions to these challenges in their business strategies for their long-term viability and survival.” That’s according to Fernando Zobel de Ayala, who is President and Chief Operating Officer of Ayala Corporation, and concurrently Chairman of Ayala Land, the largest real estate company in the Philippines. Read more

COP 15: What is the Impact on Malaysia and South East Asia?

By Daniel Chandranayagam

What most can take away from COP 15 is a bitter sense of disappointment with the ‘disagree-to-agree’ outcome of the summit, which has been described as “a theater of the absurd” on HuffPost. With that in mind, it piqued my interest to learn that a talk would be presented by the US Embassy Public Affairs Office, at the Annexe Gallery, on the Copenhagen Summit. Read more

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