HOME-grown non-governmental organisation Mercy Relief has won enough international recognition for it to be invited to speak at a United Nations conference.

This is the International Disaster and Risk Conference 2008 (IDRC), which opens today in Davos, Switzerland.

The five-year-old relief agency's chief executive Hassan Ahmad will address the 1,000 participants from 100 countries at the week-long conference on Wednesday.

Read the full story in Monday's edition of The Straits Times.