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Borneo Post
13-05-2025
- Business
- Borneo Post
Japan provides grant to support children's transportation in Papar
Yamashita (centre) handing over the van to Caring For The Future. KOTA KINABALU (May 13): The Government of Japan has extended a grant of approximately RM157,733 to Caring For The Future (CFF) Malaysia Berhad under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP). The grant was used to purchase a van for transporting children of CFF to and from school. The van was delivered to CFF's facility in Papar on Tuesday. Yamashita Yoshito, Head of the Consular Office of Japan in Kota Kinabalu, represented the Government of Japan at the handover ceremony. The GGP is one of Japan's international aid initiatives aimed at meeting basic human needs. It supports projects that deliver tangible benefits at the grassroots level, especially those requiring timely humanitarian assistance. Since 1989, through the GGP, the Government of Japan has implemented 55 socially impactful projects in Sabah and Sarawak. These include the provision of vans for schools and welfare facilities, solar-powered electrification, and the enhancement of medical infrastructure — totaling over RM7 million in assistance to date. The Consular Office of Japan in Kota Kinabalu remains open to receiving and reviewing strong project proposals from NGOs and other non-profit organizations under the GGP.
Hans India
24-04-2025
- Business
- Hans India
Making pharma deliveries more sustainable
Hyderabad: On Wednesday, DHL Express has partnered with Sai Life Sciences to use DHL's emission-reduced shipping solution – GoGreen Plus (GGP). The partnership provides Sai Life Sciences with a greenhouse gas emissions reduction of up to 90 per cent for its international logistics needs. Sai Life Sciences works with over 300 global innovator pharma and biotech companies to accelerate the pace of their drug discovery, development and commercialisation. R S Subramanian, senior vice president – South Asia, DHL Express, said, 'Addressing Scope 3 emissions is critical to DHL for achieving the commitment to be carbon neutral by 2050. GoGreen Plus is a pioneering service that helps our customers address Scope 3 carbon emissions of their critical shipments to global destinations.' Sivaramakrishnan Chittor, CFO, Sai Life Sciences added, 'Our partnership with DHL reflects a shared commitment to reducing environmental impact while maintaining the reliability and precision that our customers depend on. It's one more way we're integrating sustainability into how we work – with intent and consistency – to make it better together.'
Scroll.in
23-04-2025
- General
- Scroll.in
A new book suggests that young Indians' use of recreational drugs points to complex class politics
I am tired now of talking about everything that's wrong with a young country's pre-eminent schools, so it is time to move onto something more positive, and, as a byproduct, also explain this memory loss I keep talking about. One of the first images to surface when you Google certain keywords is a picture of a bed in a student hostel, whose cover is strewn with what can only be 4,000 marijuana joints.26 These have been made in preparation for something called the 'GGP' – let's call it the 'Great Green Pastime'. On the left-most side of this picture is the 'Big Fat Lady', pastime the size of a newborn baby, which, legend has it, inaugurates the festival. A ten-member committee is in charge of planning and hosting the GGP. Some versions of the legend hold that the sixty-five-year-old professor of introductory statistics goes up on stage with the Big Fat Lady with the kids he once taught. Over the next three days, the remaining approximately 3,999 pastimes are lit and shared amongst the students and the pass-outs, who grow in number even though no more academic years are completed. The committee has probably rolled a little over and above the public count of pastimes, a quota reserved for them for the time spent on this service. I'm going to confirm: it was a blast. It is common enough for a college-goer's entire personality to be about weed that I think we can skip to the highlights here. Depending on who is listening, and what they are likely to think of me, I might include that I have been part of such committees. (I could've been elected head of the committee, you know. But hopefully my professional successes through and since then reassures everyone of my extremely high calibre and competence.) At the time, I wasn't aware that this effortless-highachieving-party-girl-persona was borne of a desperate need to collapse the 'bad' and the 'good' onto each other, to prove that nothing is as it's made to seem through my very way of life. Intense, I know. But what I thought was a benign tranquilliser that helped me study and bear social anxiety was also easy to abuse; it numbed my feelings entirely, so that I could ignore my nervous system and continue running on the hamster wheel I needed to run to survive. Think about the word too. Stoned. You can do anything to a stone. You can use them to create fires. You can lay roads, build things. You can throw it somewhere and nothing will happen to it. It won't feel a thing. On its own, it's inert, immobile, incapable of action. You get stoned. Like so much of my personality that I thought was irrevocably unique and edgy of me, I was sad to discover that a mid-to-late-twenties dependence on pot was not only unhealthy but also unoriginal as fuck. And it was characteristic of my generation for the same reasons as mine! In her essay about India's competitive exams, Gopalan describes a friend who went to study at Kota. 'She was surrounded by people involved in self-destruction. The drug scene on campus was vibrant and diverse. She would talk about thirteen-year-olds snorting cocaine at a joint on campus because what else were they going to do? They were people who had been stopped from happening, trapped in the abyss of a twisted version of 'real life'.' 'Stopped from happening.' It really does not behove a writer to plug so many of her own pieces in her own book, but such are the evermore self-involved times we live in. In a VICE piece on how technology is shaping the drugs market in India, I mention that the number of drug users has gone up 70 per cent in the last decade, a rise that the law enforcement attributes to increasing westernisation and declining traditional social control, and a need for instant gratification brought about by technology and social media. All this is true. But a book called Stoned, Shamed, and Depressed, 'an explosive account of the secret lives of India's teens,' confirms my theories: in the book, Jyotsna Bhargava writes about 'Rock N Roll Generation 2.0', and how India's urban teenagers resort to drugs to make studies bearable, to fill a parental or emotional void, or, to remain socially connected for the 'cursed overachiever', or to 'rebel against an extremely strict upbringing'. Embarrassingly me. But these kids started in school, much before I did, because of how available things are today. The latest is mephedrone or 'meow meow', especially popular with 12-year-olds; it is ingested by sniffing and leaves no smell, lasting about 45 minutes to a couple of hours, which means it suitable for undetected use at school, in tuitions, or at friend's places. New-age Indian television that captures such Delhi youth life induces FOMO in me because the kind of adolescent I was would have thrived there. The 2023 web series Class, in particular, depicts the vagaries of interwoven distractions that children are mired in today, from drugs and casual relationships to increasing westernisation and declining traditional social control, the pressures of performing your best self on social media, while grappling with mental health and dysfunctional families and intergenerational trauma, whether by collecting achievements or posing as generally aware or 'woke', which holds that the issues that divide our society have a right answer. To wit: for the privileged, awareness, followed by shame, guilt, and online performances of morality are a chase to what they have inherited. But according to the identity politics framework, the final judge and gatekeeper of morality is the province of oppressed identities. Once a 'Privileged' has become alert to how their identities have helped them at the cost of others, rightful redressal should take the form of whatever an 'Oppressed' defines, whether it is changing the language you use, or being in favour of meat-eating, or excusing their own narcissism, or their hatefulness towards those who deviate from these right behaviours. Those we do are 'problematic', 'hypocritical', 'morally bankrupt', and so on.
Express Tribune
13-04-2025
- General
- Express Tribune
Japan funds Jhandwal Link Road in Mansehra
The Ambassador of Japan to Pakistan, Akamatsu Shuichi, inaugurated a project for the pavement of a link road in the village of Jhandwal, Shinkiari, District Mansehra. The project was implemented by Saibaan Development Organisation, a non-governmental organisation working for vulnerable people in rural areas of Pakistan to eliminate social disparities. Through its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) Programme, the government of Japan provided financial assistance of 56,418 USD for the pavement of a 3,800-foot link road, including the construction of retaining walls and culverts. The newly paved road offers a safe and reliable route to school for 330 children.
Jordan Times
24-02-2025
- Business
- Jordan Times
Japan grants $122,881 to Greater Karak Municipality
The Government of Japan provides a grant of $122,881 to Greater Karak Municipality for the procurement of waste collection trucks under the Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects (GGP) (Petra photo) AMMAN — The government of Japan has provided a grant of $122,881 to Greater Karak Municipality for the procurement of waste collection trucks under the Grant Assistance for Grass-Roots Human Security Projects (GGP). The grant contract was signed by Japanese Ambassador to Jordan Asari Hideki and Mayor of Greater Karak Municipality Mohamed Maaitah on Monday. The initiative aims to improve waste management services in Karak City, which has a population of 130,600, including Syrian refugees, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. Asari commended the Municipality's long-standing dedication to public services, noting that the grant will help ensure a healthier and more sustainable environment. "Greater Karak Municipality has a proud history of serving its people since 1893. This project is another step forward in its continued dedication to building a better future for the community," he said. Maaitah expressed gratitude for Japan's support, emphasising that the two new waste collection trucks will significantly enhance service efficiency and reduce operational burdens. He reaffirmed the Municipality's commitment to ensuring effective management of the vehicles to maintain high-quality waste collection services. Since 1993, Japan has allocated more than $10.5 million under the GGP programme, supporting 160 projects across Jordan, benefiting non-governmental organisations, schools, hospitals, and local governments.
