Japan’s Fujitsu-JAIMS Foundation and Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) are offering scholarships to Vietnamese students in a bid to conduct corporate social responsibility (CSR). The Japanese foundation will provide scholarships which will cover tuition, airfare and a cost-of-living allowance to help the students attend a management program entitled “Global Leaders for Innovation and Knowledge” with a four-month training course featuring a multi-campus network in Japan, the U.S., Thailand, and Singapore from February 2015. So far, the foundation has granted 468 scholarships to students from Asia-Pacific countries, including 24 in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Thai group grants scholarships to 50 poor high school students in Hanoi. Each scholarship includes cash and a backpack choked full with clothes, notebooks and souvenir. Earlier on July 4, SCG and the Tuoi Tre newspaper granted 350 identical scholarships to outstanding students in seven southeastern provinces in Vietnam in an effort to help students fulfill their life’s dreams as said by Niwat Komarn, executive country director of SCG in Vietnam. (VietNamNet July 16)
