Corporate Governance, Fair Operating Practices and Government Relations |
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The next module of the new Professional Master´s in CSR offered by CSR Asia in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand, will be delivered in Bangkok over four intensive days from Friday 23rd to Monday 26th March, 2012. The module, which can be taken as an individual ´stand-alone´ course, will focus on the good corporate governance which is the foundation of good CSR. Key corporate governance challenges in the region will be considered including the power of shareholders, government relations, competition, Board diversity, socially responsible investment and bribery and corruption. Interested applicants can visit www.csrcenter.ait.asia or email csrcenter@ait.asia for further details. |
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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