As part of PepsiCo's corporate social responsibility in undertaking humanitarian and communal issues at the heart of its policy, PepsiCo's team members in Lebanon dedicated an entire day to visit Renee Wehbe Center for the Sick Elderly in Mansourieh.…

Following its recent success with the first Pan-Arab exhibition of contemporary art 'The Future of a Promise' at the 54th Venice Biennale, the internationally renowned arts initiative Edge of Arabia, with support from Abdul Latif Jameel Community Initiatives and Abraaj Capital will be launching the most significant show of Saudi contemporary art ever held in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Edge of Arabia Jeddah: We Need to Talk, curated by Mohammed Hafiz and co-curated…

UAE telecom company du won top spot in an index that ranks companies according to their level of corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.

The firm was ranked first in the Standard and Poor/Hawkamah Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Index 2011.

"The ranking comes as a result of the telecommunications company's sustained efforts to enhance corporate governance standards within the company and community, which have boosted du up from last year's…

An exhibition highlighting the key actors in voluntary work in Oman and the region was held last week at the Oman International Exhibition Centre, Seeb. The Volunteer Exhibition 2011, which was opened by H E Sheikh Sa’ad al Sa’adi,  Minister of Commerce and Industry, on December 5 and ran for three days, coincided with the International Volunteer Day and Oman’s ‘Day for…

Samsung Engineering was awarded the “Corporate Social Responsibility Award” at the second annual Oil & Gas Magazine awards ceremony in Dubai this week.

Global financial service company Deutsche Bank AG showed its commitment to the local environment by participating in the "UAE Clean Up Day" corporate event organized by Goumbook with the full support of the Emirates Industry for Camel Milk as Special Host Partner and Averda as the official Recycling Partner for the…

Bazinga Ramallah started the way most coworking spaces do--with too much coffee. "We were building mobile and web apps and we spent our time working in cafes, but we felt we were being too unproductive. And it was too expensive," says Mohammad Khatib. So he and some friends rented a storefront and invited others to join them--a space, among the first of its kind, to foster tech startups in the Palestinian territories. But even now, nearly a year later, nobody has…

Vodafone Qatar has named its 2012 “World of Difference” programme winners as Abdullah al-Naemi and Kathleen Bates.

Now in its second year, the “World of Difference” is an initiative that is part of “Better World”, Vodafone Qatar’s corporate social responsibility strategy.

It is a flagship project and a first in Qatar in which…

Samsung Electronics Levant recently launched the second phase of its 'Hope for Children' campaign on Facebook, where the goal is to collect donations for the benefit of the SOS villages in Amman and Irbid to be sent by the 'Bus of Hope' on December 18th and 20th.…

Porsche Centre Oman, SATA LLC, in association with the Grand Hyatt Muscat, hosted the Porsche Kids Driving School, a unique road safety activity aimed at children aged five to nine through the concept of 'edutainment', reinforcing educational objectives in a…

In continuance with its strategicobjective towards serving the community which entails training and employingpersons with disabilities, Savola Group celebrated the graduation of 18graduates with physical disabilities in preparation for them to embark on theirnew careers providing by Savola at their various sectors.  This new batch will join their fellowgraduates from the first batch that have completed the program in July 2010.

Theevent, held in Roshan Mall was attended by key…

“Business cannot succeed in societies that fail,” is one of 10 messages that the World Business Council for Sustainable Development operates.

However, apart from few individual corporate initiatives, Lebanon still lacks a comprehensive strategic framework to promote sustainable development. This represents the core of Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR…

In building a reputation for delivering liquefied natural gas (LNG) safely, reliably and efficiently to customers around the world, RasGas Company Limited (RasGas), is continuing to demonstrate innovation in sustainable development in the State of Qatar, said Brett Doherty, Group Manager, Safety, Health, Environment and Quality at RasGas. 

"Sustainability at RasGas is aligned with the Qatar…

The Savola Group, a company specializing in the food industry across the Middle East and globally, has joined hands with the Jordan River Foundation (JRF) as strategic partner to study the development of the Handicrafts Center in Saudi Arabia, as part of The Group's CSR…

Qatar University (QU) held a series of events to commemorate International Volunteer Day, an international observance designated by the United Nations as December 5. Students participated in a seminar organized by College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) and an awareness…

BankMuscat is supporting and participating in the three-day Volunteer Exhibition which opened at Oman International Exhibition Center yesterday. The exhibition is in line with the directive of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos to celebrate December 5 as the Day for Volunteerism in the Sultanate, as well as the announcement of the Sultan Qaboos Prize for Voluntary…

GE Oil and Gas has signed a contract with Qatar Operating Company Limited (Qatargas) to supply advanced combustion technology that will reduce gas turbine emissions at the Qatargas 1 Utility complex to meet new regulations from the Qatari Ministry of Environment. The deal was announced…

As world leaders continue talks in Durban on renewal of the Kyoto Protocol, which has been in place since 1997 to limit greenhouse gases emissions, Dubai-based Carbon Credit brokerage, Advanced Global Trading (AGT) reassures investors that private sector VER (Voluntary Emissions…