2005

  • Hong Leong Foundation continued to give away hongbaos to the needy in its annual festive giveaway tradition. Nearly 3000 needy elderly received a festive hongbao of $180 each from Hong Leong Foundation. In addition, 900 elderly received $60 each. The giveaway amounted to $600, 000.

2000

  • This year, the Hong Leong Group, together with its subsidiaries and Hong Leong Foundation contributed S$10,000 to the School Pocket Money Fund, a fund-raising project by the Straits Times and Sunday Times team in aid of children from low-income family. The project aims to raise enough funds to help these low-income family children to attend school with minimum worries. The entire project raised approximately

  • CDL received the Corporate Gold Award from Community Chest. The company contributed S$100,000 to the Community Chest Charity Gala held in March, which raised S$1.2 million for 55 charities supported by the National Council of Social Services.

  • Members of CDL's staff volunteer club, City Sunshine Club (CSC) help raised about S$15,000 through the sale of carnival coupons and food items at Carnival 23, a food, fruits and fun fair carnival held at Mount Alvernia Hospital in September 2000, in aid of cancer-stricken children. Funds raised are for establishing the Assisi Children's Centre by Assisi Home & Hospice.

  • CDL sponsored S$20,000 towards the President's Charity Night 2000 in aid of charity organizations nominated by His Excellency, The President of Singapore, Mr S R Nathan.

  • Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc has kicked off the new millennium with a most worthy cause by adopting NCH Action for Children as its leading charity. NCH is one of the UK's leading child care charities, running more than 370 projects for Britain's most vulnerable children, young people and their families - and in so doing supports over 70,000 people. Around the world, the group's hotels also support charities on a local or regional basis, and many focus on children. For example, the Singapore hotels support several children's charities including the Spastic Children's Association and the National Kidney Foundation. CDL Hotels New Zealand Ltd have the Child Cancer Foundation as their sole charity.
1999

  • A food and fun fair carnival hosted and co-organised by CDL at Central Mall in August 1999 raised a whopping $417,062 for Assisi Home and Hospice, which provides medical, nursing, social and pastoral support for over 600 cancer patients. The carnival's success was made possible by a turnout of a 10,000-strong crowd and 1,000 volunteers who manned a total of 100 stalls
1998

  • A pledge of a total of S$2 million to 43 educational, community, charity and arts organisations by CDL to celebrate the official opening of its flagship building, Republic Plaza, in February 1998.


2000

  • CDL offers two construction industry scholarships worth S$52,000 as part of the company's continuing effort to promote youth development and education in Singapore. The BCA-CDL scholarships, which will commence in July 2001, will cover a four-year degree programme in Engineering (Civil) and Science (Building) at either NUS or NTU.

1998

  • In 1998, the Hong Leong Group bought six special editions of "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Proceeds from the sale of the Memoirs were used for training and education. CDL also purchased a gold-plated edition of the Lee Kuan Yew CD-Rom at $10,000 in aid of the Universities Fund in May 1995. Another $10,000 was donated by the Group to the Tan Swan Beng Professorship in Construction Industry.

  • CDL was the sole sponsor of the Young Entrepreneurs Programme (YEP) launched by the National Youth Achievement Award Council in 1998. Sanctioned by the Singapore Trade Development Board, the programme addresses the government and business community's concerns about the need to nurture enterprising young Singaporeans.

1996

  • CDL contributed S$100,000 to the Universities Endowment Fund, designated for the Goh Keng Swee Professorship in Economics at the National University of Singapore in December 1996. The chair, named after Dr Goh, a former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, is in recognition of his contribution as the architect of the Singapore economy.

1995

  • The Hong Leong Group of companies committed S$500,000 to the Chinese Heritage Centre, a data resource center for Chinese history, language, culture and the arts. The center was established following increasing interest in Chinese communities living outside China. It opened in mid-1995 at the Nanyang Technological University.


1998

  • CDL and Copthorne Hotels & Resorts were major sponsors of the M1 Classic Tennis Championships 1998. The magnificent performance of 8 veteran players including Grand Slam champions Bjorn Borg and Henri Leconte were surely a source of inspiration for our young tennis players.
1995

  • Young football talents in Singapore benefited from overseas training stints under the CDL-Goh Chok Tong Football Talent Scheme in the early 1990s. In April 1995, CDL extended its sponsorship with an increased sponsorship of S$100,000 per annum over five years, in a bid to promote sporting excellence in Singapore.



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