SolarWorld AG this year honored Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and micro-finance pioneer Muhammad Yunus by presenting the 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award to him. Professor Yunus received the award in recognition of his contributions to the nonprofit social business company G...
Rich I.P.O. Brings Controversy to SKS Microfinance
By STEPHANIE STROM and VIKAS BAJAJ
An Indian company with rich American backers is about to raise up to $350 million in a stock offering closely watched by philanthropists around the world, showing that big ...
BY HISASHI NAITO AND RYUICHIRO TAKESHITA THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Muhammad Yunus (THE ASAHI SHIMBUN)
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A new business model that blurs traditional distinctions between social activism and business is gaining converts in boardrooms of leading Japanese companies.
"Socia...
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Fast Retailing Co., operator of the Uniqlo clothing chain, will work with microfinance organization Grameen Bank to sell affordable clothing in Bangladesh, executives of the two entities said Tuesday.
Fast Retailing will set up a joint venture in Oct...
Japan's clothing retail chain to help set up textile unit in Bangladesh
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus (L) and Tadashi Yanai, president of Fast Retailing, attend a press conference in Tokyo yesterday. Japan's casual clothing brand Uniqlo and Yunus said they would cr...
(AFP)
TOKYO - Japan's casual clothing brand Uniqlo and Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said Tuesday they would create a textiles company in Bangladesh to help poor women gain financial independence.
Fast Retailing, which owns Uniqlo, plans to invest some 10...
From left, Pamela Gillies, vice chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland; Prof Muhammad Yunus and former British premier Gordon Brown during the inauguration of Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health at the university on July 5. Photo: Lamiya Morsh...
Former British Premier Gordon Brown and Vice-Chancellor Pamela Gillies at the launching  of the Yunus Centre of Social Business and Health at the Glasgow Caledonian University in Glasgow on July 5 with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus, after whom the...
1.   Why Grameen Shakti? Global warming is an on-going over-riding issue in Bangladesh. So is the shortage of power. There is hardly any electricity in the rural areas. Eighty per cent of people of Bangladesh live in the rural areas. Seventy pe...
Yunus sings for social business
Calls for creating a different world
Staff Correspondent
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus has called for establishing social business as a problem solver, not profit maximiser, to tackle global poverty and social injustice.
"If we had ...
