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| Green Diamonds highlights the ongoing
efforts of Mitsubishi companies to foster a greener,
more sustainable planet
and brighter, more vibrant communities through wide-ranging environmental and
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| The Kirin Group (Kirin Holdings, Inc.), which operates food and health businesses mainly in Asia and Oceania, has been sponsoring the United Nations |
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University-Kirin Fellowship Program since 1993. This program assists developing countries in Asia in their efforts to solve food problems and achieve healthy socioeconomic growth. It helps fellows from Asian countries in their food science |
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| Researchers on the 2010 Fellowship Program at National Food Research Institute |
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research take the knowledge and technical skills they gain through research in Japan back to their home countries to promote scientific, technological and social progress in their communities.
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| ■http://www.kirinholdings.co.jp/csr/fellow/index.html
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| NYK has decided to extend until 2015 the scholarship program for teachers and students at Shanghai Maritime University (SMU) and Dalian Maritime University (DMU). The company had already extended what was originally intended to be a 5-year program for a further five years in 2006 after strong representations from both universities and the Chinese Transportation Ministry. And in response |
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to further entreaties, NYK recently took the decision to extend the scholarships for a further 5-year period. The scholarships are awarded annually on the basis of academic performance and the financial circumstances of individual students to 36 and 40 students at the SMU and DMU respectively. A total of 509 students have received NYK scholarships at the two universities since the establishment of the program in 2001. |
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| Tenth NYK scholarship awards ceremony held at DMU in November 2010
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■http://www.nyk.com/english/release/
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| Asahi Glass group company AGC Flat Glass (Thailand) Public (AFT), which manufactures and sells a wide range of float glass, has been conducting an activity called “Open Kids’ Vision” in cooperation with a local NGO and others, with a view to helping people living in a forest region in the western part of Thailand create a sustainable society. In fiscal 2009, AFT provided children in the region with an |
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opportunity to experience the sea to broaden their horizons and in fiscal 2010 it began helping residents of the region lead more sustainable lives by providing them with external training. Moreover, the residents of community and AFT employees constructed a multipurpose building together and piped water from the mountains to the local school to enhance the learning environment. In fiscal 2011 AFT will support the community install electricity-generating systems that harness water from the local creek and sunlight.
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| Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) started its first experimental project in tropical forest regeneration in 1990. To date the company has extended these activities to tropical forest regions in Malaysia, Brazil and Kenya and has recently announced that it will launch a 5-year project in Indonesia starting this year with the international NGO, OISCA. The project goal is to regenerate the forest in an area of 10 hectares in a national park and an area of 40 hectares of public land cultivated by the people of Sukamaju Village, Kadudampit, Sukabumi Regency in West Java with the aim of conserving water resources and alleviating flooding, landslides and other natural disasters. The project also aims to strengthen the economic base of those living in the region by empowering local farmers; to raise awareness about environmental |
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| Target area for forest regeneration in Indonesia |
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| 2009 photograph showing tree planting ceremony in Malaysia |
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