Taiwan, Philippine 7-Eleven stores to join Earth Hour lights-off eventStaff writer, with CNATaiwan's 7-Eleven chain is to partner with its Philippine counterpart in Saturday's Earth Hour campaign by having each store turn off their sign lights from 8:30pm to 10:30pm, operator Uni-President Chain Store Corp said yesterday. 7-Eleven employees hold signs for an Earth Hour event outside a store in an undated photograph. Some 7-Eleven stores already began in June 2024 to regularly shut off sign lighting early in the morning, and more than 3,000 stores are doing this now, Uni-President said. OK Mart also said it would join in switching off all sign lighting in its stores across the country for one hour starting at 8:30pm. Earth Hour, also known as the "lights off" moment, was initiated in 2007 by the World Wide Fund for Nature and is now recognized as the world's largest annual environmental grassroots movement, according to its official Web site.

Source: Taipei Times March 25, 2026 04:15 UTC