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| Ms. Chern Meng Gaik, Senior Manager – Corporate of Salcon Berhad receiving the Award from Lt. Gen Sudhir Sharma, panel Judge of AREA |
Salcon through the Salcon River & Water Awareness Educational Programme, was conferred the pretigious Asia Responsible Entrepreneurship Award (AREA) in the Green Leadership category for its contribution towards environmental conservation awareness amongst the community.
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| Trophy of AREA, Green Leadership Category |
'The Green Leadership award honours companies which recognize the impact of their business operations to the environment and which actively seek to reduce and reverse the impact,' said Lt. Gen Sudhir Sharma, one of the panel judges of AREA. 'In total, we received over 120 submissions for the various award categories from all across Southeast Asia, and only 21 submissions were selected as winners for this year's programme.'
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| Group photo with all winners of AREA |
It is a great honour for us to receive an international recognition for the Salcon River and Water Awareness Educational programme,’ said Dato Eddy Leong Kok Wah, Executive Director of Salcon Berhad. ‘Educating our younger generation on the value of conserving precious water resources is something very close to our hearts and this award has definitely given us a huge encouragement to continue our efforts in this area.’
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| Ms. Chern Meng Gaik was interviewed by CNBC Asia on the Salcon River Programme |
The AREA recognizes and honors Asian businesses for championing sustainable and responsible entrepreneurship in 7 different award categories which include social empowerment, investment in people, health promotion, green leadership, corporate governance, SME CSR and responsible business leadership award. The award recipients undergo a stringent selection process by the International Judging Panel, which picks the most outstanding enterprise leaders and gives international recognition for their achievement in promoting the ethic of Corporate Responsibility to the society. Winners of the Green Leadership award category include Toyota Motor Thailand Pte Ltd, Permodalan Nasional Berhad, Thai Wacoal Public Company Ltd, Malakoff Corporation Berhad, Ricoh Asia Pacific Ptd Lte and many more.
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