Happy Chinese New Year! People born in Years of the Dog (1946, 1958, 1970, 1982) make excellent:

Teachers We have a “doggone” full schedule of courses, training and presentations for the new year with training partners CoreVentus, The Pinnacle Group Inc, Partners Conferences and DMS Electronics. Check out our “Do-It-Yourself BCP” course on our training page, watch video clips and read testimonials from past courses. In March we offer a half-day BCP for SME’s for the first time at the Singapore Productivity Association.

Doctors “The Singing Doctor” Dr. Alvin Chan writes and performs his own songs in HK to promote health. His tunes include how to use chopsticks properly to prevent spreading germs. If songs persuade people to pay attention, plenty of planners will want singing lessons...

People born in Years of the Dog are also:

Good Listeners You hear a lot about disasters in Asia, but this article by Nathaniel Forbes for the Computer Society of Sri Lanka summarizes what we’ve learned from those disasters. Thanks to Continuity Central for distributing the article.

Responsible The Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council offers advice to banks on preparing for an influenza epidemic. Phone banking will get a boost, but if you go into a bank wearing a mask, will guards assume you’re robbing the place? Hmmm…

Reliable Asia may be the world’s factory, but some manufacturers aren't sure how to implement BCM. Download the brochure and sign up here for our 2-day BCM for Manufacturing course taught by Nathaniel Forbes and Daniel Steele, Director of Facilities Operations at Singapore’s Chartered Semiconductor.

Honest Find straight answers to common BCP questions on our Frequently Asked Questions page. While you’re visiting, see our new Links page with simpler tabs for navigation (Dog Year people make good interior decorators, too!) Write to us if you can’t find a Link you'd like us to add.

Compassionate UNICEF reports in “Building Back Better” that funds for tsunami relief in Asia raised from individuals, foundations and business (US$450 million) exceeded the amount received from governments (US$175 million) by more than a 2-to-1 ratio (total US$625 million). Who says people don’t care about each other?