7th Annual Asian Forum on CSR (AFCSR)
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The seventh annual Asian Forum on Corporate Social Responsibility (AFCSR) and the Asian CSR Awards will be held in Singapore at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel on November 20 & 21, 2008. The theme of AFCSR 2008 is CSR - "Business Response to Social Issues: Getting it Done. Mr. Ramon R. del Rosario, Jr., President and CEO of PHINMA, co-chairs the event with Mr. Boon Yoon Chiang, Chairman & Managing Director of Jardine Matheson (Singapore) Ltd. and Ms. Claire Chiang, President of Singapore Compact for CSR.
Recognized as being the largest and most significant conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Asia, the AFCSR was launched in Manila in 2002 with subsequent annual events held in Bangkok in 2003, Kuala Lumpur in 2004, Jakarta in 2005, back in Manila in 2006 and last year in Ho Chi Minh where a record breaking 550 delegates attended AFCSR 2007.
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