Project Sukacita—a student-initiated, student-led community service project—celebrated its 5th anniversary by doing what it does best: Serving the local community in Pangkalan Kerinci. Pangkalan Kerinci, or Kerinci as it’s fondly known, was twenty five years ago a mere village of 200 dwellings whose inhabitants were either fishermen or illegal loggers. Today, there are more than […]
Help in the Time of Rain
The dipping temperatures and the arrival of the northeast monsoon herald the start of the flu season in Riau, where Asian Agri partners plasma farmers to cultivate about 35,000 hectares of its 160,000 ha of oil palms. To help its smallholders deal with the flu season, PT Inti Indosawit Subur, a subsidiary of Asian Agri, […]
APRIL Recognised as Valued Donor to Global Compact Network Singapore
Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS) is go-to agency for Singapore-based companies that want to deepen and widen their understanding and implementation of CSR and corporate sustainability practices. As a signatory to the Principles of the UN Global Compact and a company committed to applying responsible and best-practice sustainable forestry management across every aspect of its […]
Tanoto Foundation spearheads CSR Excellence in China
Tanoto Foundation launched a series of corporate social responsibility (CSR) lectures at Fudan University on April 24, 2016. The lectures aim to help raise the quality and standard of CSR courses in the university for the benefit of CSR professionals in China. CSR Programmes for CSR Professionals As more enterprises in China adopt and incorporate corporate social responsibility strategies into their […]
Asia Symbol clinches award for Sustainability Report
Asia Symbol recently clinched the “GoldenBee 2015 Excellent CSR Report” Award for “Foreign Investment Enterprises and Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan Investment Enterprises” for its Sustainability Report 2013-2014. The world-leading China-based pulp and paper producer was among seven recipients given the prestigious award at the Eighth International Symposium on China CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) Report, held […]
Asian Agri receives Best Community Program award
Asian Agri received the Best Community Program Award at the 7th Annual Global CSR Summit and Awards 2015. The award recognises Asian Agri’s continuing commitment to improving the economic conditions of the local communities, comprising smallholders and independent farmers. Mr Kelvin Tio, Managing Director of Asian Agri, was on hand to receive the award. “We do not just build […]
RGE on Ethics, Integrity, Business and Sustainability
RGE’s Director for External Affairs Goh Lin Piao recently met senior public officials at an exchange from Africa to share with the Group’s philosophy, practices and programmes on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Ethics & Integrity Institute (EII), a three-year old NGO that advocates ethics in organisations, led the ten-member Kenyan delegation in Singapore for […]