Highlights from philanthropy, NGOs, and social entrepreneurship blogs in the Asia Pacific region.
* New resource for aspiring entrepreneurs. FYSE launched the first online database in the Asia Pacific to provide young people with information on where to get support to start their own ventures.
* Half-truths, lies and poverty. Abraham George, founder of The George Foundation in India, shares how assertions and projections made by leaders that are incorrect or unrealistic hurts the credibility and confidence of all efforts to eradicate poverty.
* Classes in boxes. Sudhar Krishnamachary is Think Change India's new education correspondent. In his first post, he shares the Digital Study Hall story, a technical approach to education for rural and slum schools.
* Should China redraw its poverty line? Wokai points out that China might be facing a much grimmer plight of poverty than what the official numbers declare. There are 150 million or 10% of the Chinese population living on less than $1 a day.
* China's CSR Report: 40% of China's top corporations are bystanders. Chinese Academy of Sciences released the 2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Blue Book that contains the indexes and evaluation of China's top 100 corporation's CSR.
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