Coppertop® Continuity  In this picture, SEA Regional GM Choo Hon Keong (standing) leads the Asia Pacific Crisis Management Team of consumer products multinational The Gillette Company (Duracell® batteries, Braun® appliances, razors) during its BCP rehearsal at Hewlett Packard's Singapore Office Recovery Centre. Forbes Calamity Prevention helps Gillette maintain and exercise its BCP in Asia.

Mabuhay! DataOne Asia (Philippines) provides first-class data center and recovery space in Manila, Philippines. CEO Cyril Rocke and Operations Manager Alex Fernando gave FCP Director Nathaniel Forbes a tour in April. All the Philippine telecom companies serve this Eastwood City building, which houses large call centres. IBM occupies several floors.

What If? Malaysia The second of our maps showing the Sept 11, 2001 Lower Manhattan exclusion zone imposed over major Asian Cities. Click here for an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file for Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur. Click here for an explanation. Side note: An April 2004 Wall Street Journal article praised KL as city in the world where Muslims and non-Muslims mix easily and happily - and the Middle Eastern food is great.

What's the Sanskrit for "Disaster"? Established in 1995, Duryog Nivaran network helps governments and private organizations develop community support for disaster prevention in India, Pakistan, Bangaldesh, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh - in its own words, "the world's most disaster-prone region."Duryog Nivaran" is Sanskrit for "disaster mitigation."

Who You Gonna Call?  Havenpoint offers a Communications and Meeting Plan (CAMP™), a Web subscription service for families (or planners) to store emergency plans with emergency meeting locations and vital contact information. The company is in Virginia, USA.

Need BCP training? Hire us for private, in-house BCP training for your staff. Visit our training page for video samples. Contact Wendy at wendy@calamity.com.sg