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LIVING OUR YEARS DANGEROUSLY Years of Living Dangerously is global warming as you’ve never seen it before. Over the course of nine episodes, this multi-part television event tells the biggest story of our time: climate change and its impact on people. Each year, Earth Day is celebrated on 22 April, marking what many consider the birth of the modern environmental movement, which began in the United States of America in 1970. Today, Earth Day is celebrated internationally as an on-going effort to fight for a cleaner and more sustainable planet. brings ‘Years of Living Dangerously’, which won Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series in the 2014 Emmy Awards as well as being the first honouree of the 2014 Environmental Media Awards, to awaken our social consciousness and inspire us to make a change. In conjunction with Earth Day, FOX International Channels (FIC) ‘Years of Living Dangerously’, the multi-part television series on cli- mate change and its impact on people, will make its debut on the National Geographic Channel on Monday, 13 April 2015 at 11pm. Over the course of nine episodes, the show will chronicle celebrities like Jessica Alba, Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, America Ferrera, Mark Bittman, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, to name a few, going into the field to speak to real people who are dealing BY THAMAIYANTHI SEGARAN TRIPLE RECOGNITION AmBank Group was honoured with three major awards at the recent Fifth Asian Excellence Recognition Awards 2015 held on 10 April 2015 in Hong Kong. The Fifth Asian Excellence Recognition Awards 2015 is organised by Corporate Governance Asia and identifies excellence in financial performance, investor relations and communications, business ethics, corporate social responsibility and environmental practices in corporations. In its fifth year, the award gave recognition to Ms Mandy Simpson, Chief Financial Officer, AmBank Group with the Asia’s Best Chief Financial Officer (Investor Rela- 16 tions) Award. AmBank Group also won the Best Investor Relations Company in Malaysia and Best Corporate Social Responsibility in Malaysia awards. Syed Anuar Syed Ali, Head, Group Corporate Communications and Marketing, AmBank Group accepted the award for Best Corporate Social Responsibility.