(29 May 2010)

On 29 May 2010, CDL once again supported the Assisi Hospice Charity Fun Day, joining over 2000 volunteers and a vast array of 210 stalls ranging from local cuisines, games and handicrafts, among others.

Held at SJI International, the annual event was graced by Dr Tony Tan, former deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of Singapore Press Holdings, and aimed to raise $750,000 for the expansion and improvement of Assisi Hospice's three core services of in-patient care, home care and day care centres. The hospice offers in-patient care, home care and day care services to adult and paediatric patients with cancer and other life-limiting illnesses.

A long-standing partner of Assisi Hospice since 1999, CDL and its subsidiary company CBM Pte Ltd co-organised the Charity Fun Day, with CBM providing services in the areas of transportation and manpower, cleaning management, car park and traffic management. CDL and its sister hotels - M Hotel, Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Orchard Hotel, Copthorne Orchid Hotel and Copthorne King's Hotel - showed their support by taking up a 37-metre pavilion selling multi-racial delicacies and hotel specialties.

(20 February 2010)
Following the first emergency charity concert at City Square Mall on 30 January, CDL is once again joining forces with local peace-building social enterprise Café Diplo to continue their support of World Vision's relief work in Haiti. CDL has sponsored Chinatown Point as the venue for two fund-raising events on 20 February - Haiti Haiti 2, featuring Mandarin pop singers to rally the local Mandarin-speaking community to support the Haitian cause, and a Foot Aid Donation Drive, in collaboration with Kreta Ayer Kim Seng Community Club (KAKSCC), with all proceeds going towards the KAKSCC Community Development & Welfare Fund, as well as World Vision's Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund. Dr Lily Neo, MP for Jalan Besar GRC will be gracing the event, with celebrity appearances by Mediacorp artiste Fann Wong and the cast of the movie Happy Go Lucky.

(30 January 2010)
CDL lent its support to local peace-building social enterprise Café Diplo in organising "Haiti Haiti", a charity concert aimed at raising funds towards humanitarian relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti. By launching a donation drive amongst staff, which was matched dollar for dollar by the company, CDL raised in just three days a total of S$30,000 for World Vision's Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund, which will help to provide relief supplies to victims of the Haiti Earthquake that struck on 12 January 2010. Featuring musicians such as former Singapore Idol vocal coach Babes Conde, veteran singer Robert Fernando, popular entertainer Cat Ong and Rai from acoustic duo Jack & Rai, the concert saw corporations and individuals donating generously to this urgent humanitarian cause.

(15 - 17 January 2010)

As part of CDL's CSR commitment in promoting humanitarian and environmental causes, CDL was a Gold Sponsor at the inaugural Asia Humanitarian Forum (AHF), a public educational platform to promote both humanitarian and environmental causes to the community. Held from 15 to 17 January in Singapore at The Plaza, National Library Building, the event featured film screenings and green activities, talks, a public exhibition by humanitarian and environmental organisations (such as the Jane Goodall Institute Singapore and WWF) and cool performances by talented musicians.

In addition, CDL also co-presented a photography exhibition by Ernest Goh titled "Altered Land", a chronicle of black and white photographs of the destruction wrecked by the tsunami at Banda Acheh in 2004, and the reconstruction and rebuilding efforts which followed.