Tag: Asia

TNT Malaysia names General Manager for north

Posted by | Jun 25, 2007 | |

TNT Express has appointed Christopher Bain as general manager, northern region, Malaysia. Bain will be based in TNT’s Global Express Centre in Penang.

Bain has over 24 years of corporate and business development experience in multinational companies across Malaysia, the Philippines and the United States.

He began his career in 1983 at an internationally-renowned bank, where he worked in its corporate banking and marketing departments. From 1995 to 1997, he was with a Malaysian multinational company as vice-president of its power generation and energy, shipbuilding, and steel divisions.

From 1997 to 2006, he worked with aviation and air transport company Transmile Group, where he served as country manager for its offices in the Philippines and the United States.

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China and Malaysia crowned football and cheerleading champions at DHL AsiaCup 2007

Posted by | Jun 25, 2007 | |

DHL announced that China and Malaysia have emerged as the football and cheerleading champions in its inaugural DHL AsiaCup 2007, held from 22 June to 24 June at the Royal Selangor Club at Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur. This region-wide team-building exercise is one of the largest corporate sporting events, involving 12 countries across Asia Pacific.

A total of 19 teams and 450 staff from DHL offices in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Oceania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam participated in the DHL AsiaCup final play-offs. Hundreds of DHL staff turned up to support their teams during the three-day event.

Besides the football teams, nine cheerleading teams also held their own competition, providing spectators with a visual feast of choreography and precision. The cheerleading team from host country Malaysia got the highest votes from the judges, amidst enthusiastic support from friends and colleagues from the sidelines.

Organized by DHL Asia Pacific, the inaugural DHL AsiaCup 2007 was held following the success of the 2006 World Sports Event by DHL’s parent company Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN), which was hailed as one of the world’s largest team-building events with a participation of 2,500 staff from 24 countries. The DPWN World Sports Event was organized parallel to the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

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Japan Post to Set Up Staffing Agency

Posted by | Jun 23, 2007 | |

Japan Post Corp., the planning company for the breakup and privatization of state-owned Japan Post, plans to establish a wholly owned staffing agency as early as July, Jiji Press learned Saturday.

The move is aimed at securing part-time workers on a stable basis in order to allow the Japan Post group to utilize such employees after the scheduled breakup and privatization in October.

Japan Post is currently employing hundreds of thousands of part-timers as postal sorting and delivery workers and clerks at post offices across the country.

As a result of a cutback on the recruitment of full-time workers and the promotion of an early retirement program as part of cost reduction efforts, part-time workers have became indispensable to maintain Japan Post’s services.

However, Japan Post is now having difficulties recruiting part-time workers, mainly in urban areas, as Japan’s economic recovery has led to a rise in job offers by private companies.

This has forced Japan Post to raise hourly wages for its part-time workers for some regions and start using workers dispatched by staffing agencies at post offices in areas around Tokyo and the Kinki western Japan region for the first time ever.

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All Nippon Airways and Overseas Courier Service to launch express delivery service

Posted by | Jun 23, 2007 | |

All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Tokyo-based Overseas Courier Service (OCS) will jointly develop a new international express delivery service aimed primarily at the growing Asian market, ANA said Friday.

BEAM, as the new service will be known, is planned to launch at the end of Augustr. It will utilize ANA’s growing freighter network for air transportation and OCS’s collection, delivery and customs-clearance services on the ground to provide high-speed, high-quality and reliable international deliveries.

Services will first be offered to Shanghai — using ANA’s late night cargo flights from Haneda via Kansai — and rolled out to other points in China as demand for the service develops.

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Postal workers plan largest union

Posted by | Jun 22, 2007 | |

Two post office workers’ unions have agreed to merge and form Japan’s largest labor union, with 220,000 members, after Japan Post is privatized on Oct. 1.

The 136,000-strong Japan Postal Workers’ Union voted for the plan at its national convention last Thursday in Naha. The 84,000-strong All Japan Postal Labor Union approved the merger on June 15.

Each of the two unions will finalize the merger at extraordinary meetings and form the Japan Postal Group Union on Oct. 22. The new union will eclipse the All NTT Workers Union of Japan, which is currently the largest, with 180,000 members.

The two postal unions were formerly longtime rivals, but they cooperated on opposing the privatization of Japan Post when the plan was being debated in the Diet in 2005.

After the privatization legislation was enacted that year, the two unions began considering a merger to increase their bargaining power.

While Japan Post is set to break up into four firms and a holding company after privatization, the new Japan Postal Group Union will refrain from dividing itself into company-by-company unions.

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