SHANGHAI - Fourteen-year-old Meng Xinyu described her recent trip to the Shanghai Expo Garden as not only an eye-opener, but also something that helped to set her future career goal as well.

MALAYSIA would be deemed a failure if the orang asli community are still residing in backwater conditions 25 years from now.

The recent suicides at Foxconn’s manufacturing facilities in China were reported widely in the media (both inside and outside China), and there was no shortage of attempts to explain why workers took their lives. One explanatory theme is psychological; such as the feelings of loneliness that workers face in the intensely monotonous and restrictive environments that characterise man factories (not only in China).

Starbucks Corp. is finding new ways to use the 3 billion paper cups its customers use each year, even in cities where recycling is not popular or mandated.This fall, the Seattle-based company will send cups used at its Chicago stores to Green Bay, Wis., where a Georgia-Pacific paper mill will turn them into Starbucks napkins.

United Nations (CNN) -- Leaders in commerce who met Thursday at the United Nations say they expect a significant shift in global business practices that focus on social responsibility."Principles and profits go hand in hand," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Global Compact Leaders Summit in urging international business executives to recommit to social responsibility.

VADODARA: Budding engineers from M S University's technology faculty are all set to start the trend of student social responsibility. And this noble cause will be supported by the annual national-level tech fest Footprints' under the banner of Footprint Social Responsibility (FSR). To start with, students have decided to adopt Umarva village near Waghodiya to support children and help in fulfilling basic educational requirement.