BCP News for
Multinational Companies
Bye
Bye Birdie For useful contingency planning information about ¡°bird flu¡± -
including health and travel precautions in Thai, Chinese, Japanese and English ¨C the Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization have detailed, scientific information about avian influenza. Be sure to read WHO¡¯s Fact Sheet on the
disease.
Asia
Disaster Newsletter The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) has launched a
monthly email newsletter, Echoes,
for disaster management practitioners. Articles focus on Asian communities and on
humanitarian relief, but the lessons and advice are universal. Subscription is free.
Rhymes
with ¡°sashimi¡± We attended the opening of AriMI, the Asia Risk Management
Institute www.arimi.org,
founded in 2003 by French entrepreneur Marc Ronez. ARiMI offers
education, training and examinations in risk management from Singapore¡¯s contemplative, 19th century House of Tan
Yeok Nee, home to the University
of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Going The
Distance We congratulate our colleague, Mr.Gideon
For-mukwai on launching Xtra Mile Continuity www.xtramile.biz in Singapore to provide emergency management (EM) training. Gideon trained firefighters,
and is our ICS for Executives
course instructor.
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