Vivien Ang

Vivien Ang

CHIEF SUB- EDITOR

Vivien is BT’s chief sub-editor. Besides editing, she covers CSR-related stories. Vivien is a journalism and mass comm graduate from Monash University.

DPM Lawrence Wong at the Singapore Volunteer Management Conference 2023.
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NCSS rallies partners to better engage volunteers

“CORPORATE social responsibility is a form of employee engagement.”

What sets this cafe apart is that it not only employs people with disabilities, and those from disadvantaged backgrounds, it also adopts a sustainable approach in the entire supply chain. 
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The Social Kitchen sets up shop at Bank of Singapore

HEALTHY bubble tea may seem like an oxymoron, but that is what The Social Kitchen (TSK) has on the menu at its...

Runners taking off for the 5km Zero Waste Run in 2019. This year, participants are encouraged to wear their own orange T-shirts or past Income Eco Run race T-shirts so as to promote reusing and recycling of existing clothes.
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Running towards a zero-waste future

INCOME Insurance marked the inaugural International Day of Zero Waste on Mar 30 with the launch of the first part of its...

A research has found that women needed to better control money and grow their wealth, as 80 per cent of them more likely to be impoverished by retirement than men.

CMC Markets partners Sophia Women to drive financial literacy for women

CMC Markets Singapore has partnered Sophia Women, Asia’s first and only female-focused financial education platform, to promote financial literacy among young Singaporean women.

Masnawati, one of the farmers who is working with Mars to improve his crop yield. Through the candy maker's initiatives, farmers are taught that cocoa can be grown with other crops, such as banana and avocado.

Chocolate therapy: Indonesia’s cocoa farmers learn new ways to boost crop yields

Initiatives by candy maker Mars are also spurring interest among the younger generation

The AI Nonprofit Learning Community provides free webinars, resources, scholarships and advisory support, among others, for non-profit workers.
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AI no longer just ‘nice to have’ for non-profits, says social enterprise Infoxchange

It has partnered companies such as Google to launch a capacity-building initiative across the Asia-Pacific 

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung taking a wefie at the DBS Foundation X Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities partnership launch event on Oct 13.
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DBS Foundation in S$1.5 million partnership to scale micro-jobs for seniors

Its tie-up with Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities will be rolled out across 100 Active Ageing Centres, and will benefit about 5,000...

From left: Aberdeen Investments senior sustainable investment director Sheela Veerappan; Impactt CEO Patrick Shaw-Brown; international human rights lawyer Natasha Latiff; and Business for Societal Impact director Simon Robinson, who moderated the discussion.
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Putting the spotlight on ‘S’ in ESG

While social goals have tended to be ignored, ‘we’re starting to see some progress’ says a panellist at the UNGCNS Summit

Developing nations such as Timor Leste receive significantly lesser ocean funding despite hosting rich marine biodiversity.

Only 1% of philanthropic funding goes to ocean conservation projects: panellist

NUS senior lecturer says this is despite about 70% of the world’s surface being covered by ocean

Chavalit Frederick Tsao (left), who chairs family business Tsao Pao Chee, with Education Minister Desmond Lee at the Impact Week event.
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Family business TPC injects S$12 million to uplift underprivileged families

The sum will be disbursed over 6 years, with community hubs to be built around the rental flats in Fengshan