2011 – Page 3 – Consumers Association Penang

Invitation: Climate & Energy Forum: Towards Energy Efficiency & Safe Options

admin September 28, 2011 0 Comments

Greetings! CAP, Sahabat Alam Malaysia (Friends of the Earth Malaysia), Friends of the Earth Japan and Third World Network have the pleasure of inviting you to attend a 2 day Climate & Energy Forum with a focus on nuclear energy on the second day of the forum. This forum is co-organised with the Faculty of Law University Malaya and is open to the public with free admission. Details of the...

Changing education paradigms

admin September 15, 2011 0 Comments

This animation was adapted from a talk given at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin award. He is an author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies. The videos of...

No-Fault Liability IS the better scheme

admin September 15, 2011 0 Comments

The Government has not accepted CAP’s proposal for a No-Fault Liability (NFL) scheme for road accident victims and has instead decided to maintain the present system with some changes. The new third party motor cover which will be implemented early next year, is also a fault-based liability (FBL) system. Accident victims will lose out with the rejection of the NFL scheme. Since the new motor...

Stall the imposition of 6% service tax on mobile prepaid users

admin September 9, 2011 0 Comments

CAP calls on the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to stall the move by the telco companies to impose the 6% service tax on mobile prepaid users. The telco companies claim that they have been for absorbing the tax since its imposition in 1998 and due to dwindling revenues, they have now to pass it on to the consumers. To say that their revenues are dwindling is far from true....

Support the public campaign against the promotion of nuclear technologies

admin September 9, 2011 0 Comments

Dear friends, despite the on-going environmental and human disasters brought by the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear reactors meltdown, the Japanese government is hell-bent to continue its export of what has become questionable nuclear power generation technologies. Since Fukushima, Japan has witnessed a revival of a citizen-led anti-nuclear power movement. As the crisis entered its 6th month,...

Call on government to address over-prescribing at source – and not just the fallout

admin August 31, 2011 0 Comments

CAP views with apprehension the Ministry’s strategy to tackle the fallout created by over-prescription, rather than the underlying cause, by calling on the public to return unused or expired medications at selected government medical centres and hospitals. The rationale for the move initiated last year is to protect the environment against indiscriminate disposal of expired medications, and...

Carnage on the roads

admin August 29, 2011 0 Comments

Looking at the road fatalities over the last few days leading up to Hari Raya the scenario does not appear to have improved over the last year. The authorities have still not taken into consideration many of the recommendations made by CAP. The average fatality rate for last year was 18 per day. However, from the road deaths reported over the last few days we have exceeded this figure. We can...

A call for sustainable development for Penang

admin August 26, 2011 0 Comments

On Sustainable Development for Penang - address to the full council meeting of the Municipal Council of Penang Island (MPPP) on August 26, 2011 by MPPP Standing Committee Member Dr. Lim Mah Hui. Selamat pagi and selamat sejahtera. Yg Bahagia YDP Ar Puan Patayah and Ir Ang Eng Thye, Pengarah and Ketua Jabatan, Ahli2 Majlis, Para wartan, tuan dan puan. Saya harap memberi beberapa tinjauan ...

Penang Hill Project: The true story

admin August 25, 2011 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang deeply regrets statements by Berjaya Corporation criticizing Tan Sri Koh Tsu Koon’s administration for decisions made over the Penang Hill project in 1993. Both Tan Sri Vincent Tan and Berjaya Land’s chief executive officer, Datuk Francis Ng have distorted the facts and have not presented the complete and true picture of what happened as regards the...

Our oceans in peril

admin August 16, 2011 0 Comments

Are we facing global ecological apocalypse? Experts report accelerated melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets; decrease in Arctic Sea Ice; sea level rise and release of trapped methane from the seabed. How have these changes and human activities affected our oceans - the largest ecosystem on Earth that maintains our world in a habitable condition? A June 2011 summary report of the...

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