The world of Tzu Chi Sep-Oct 2022 (Vol.143)

TZU CHI 143 29 Digital media has greatly influenced people’s reading habits. In order to provide a conducive reading space with wholesome titles for their staff, entrepreneurs Tien Chin Hsiang and Teoh Weng Chai have set up a Jing Si Reading Room in their respective companies. By encouraging reading, it will also help the employees to deal with their daily encounters with wisdom. Weng Chai saw reading as a good habit and a low-cost way of learning from the authors’ knowledge and wisdom. Chin Hsiang takes it as a corporate social responsibility to foster peace in society. She hopes to promote the idea of Jing Si Reading Room to more corporations as it is possible for one to be enlightened by a single sentence in a book. In an active effort to promote a green culture in the company, WWRC Malaysia has been serving meatless lunches to its staff two days a week, since 2011. The persistent initiative over 11 years has increased the employees’ acceptanceofaplant-baseddiet.Thecompany’s CEO, Teoh Weng Chai, who initiated the vegetarian campaign, said that it serves as a reminder for the staff to take a vegetarian meal or reduce meat consumption whenever they can, which is not only good for their health but also friendly to the environment. A Malay staff, Nurul Farizah, expressed that it is difficult to find halal vegetarian food outside, so the meatless lunches served in the company have given them a chance to enjoy vegetarian food conveniently. KL & Selangor I 11.08.2022 KL & Selangor I 07.09.2022 Jing Si Reading Room – A Space to Settle Down in a Busy Life Eleven Years of Vegetarian Promotion in the Company By Yap Chai Hoon Photo by Sam Pin Fook By Loo Yee Mei Photo by Loh Hon Fui