KUALA LUMPUR: Law and ethics in cyberspace and managing brand online reputation were widely discussed at the Asian Bloggers and Social Media Conference 2010 session this morning.The conference which started yesterday saw first speaker Eddie Law, a local blogger and founder of LawEddie.com and eLawyer.com.my, addressed on where bloggers should learn to draw the boundary with their contents, among others.

A recent blog post by Auret van Heerden titled "Where is CSR Heading?"  begs a really big question: What good has "corporate social responsibility" been for workers, up to now? Sweatshop abuses are Exhibit A and that is where van Heerden plies his trade as head of the "Fair Labor Association" in Washington.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has long been a hot topic globally. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has lectured companies on it. Some corporations have won acclaim and awards for CSR.Two of them were BP, the oil giant, and Goldman Sachs, the big investment bank.

SHELL Malaysia will set aside about 10% of its scholarships specifically for disabled students from this year onwards.At its recent Scholarship and Student Excellence Awards,

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should place more importance on corporate social responsibility, but they may need incentives, says Yuthasak Supasorn, director of the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises Promotion (Osmep). country's 2.82 million SMEs account for 90% of the businesses in Thailand, but it is mostly large companies that carry out projects as part of corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes.

MIRI: The private sector can complement the Government’s efforts to abolish hardcore poverty in the country through their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said. said the public and private sectors could join hands to alleviate the burden of the poor.