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Vision & Mission

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Vision Giving a voice to the little people - that is the objective of the Consumers’ Association of Penang. And that’s what we have been doing since our establishment in 1970. CAP is a consumer organization with a difference. Fighting for fair prices and good quality products and services is just one of our many activities. Our main concern is ensuring the right of every consumer to basic...

Featured Videos

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CAP presents latest featured videos Changing education paradigms: An important, timely talk for parents and teachers. Toxic Profits? : An Aljazeera video on the Lynas rare earth project in Gebeng, Kuantan The Warriors of Qiugang :Oscar 2011 Nomination for Documentary(Short Subject) The Story of Bottled Water Organic Farming Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 CAP's Farmers Training Part...

Call off Shrimp Farming!

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Shrimp farming has again wielded its ugly image, the latest being discharge from several shrimp farms in Kuala Selangor that has polluted neighbouring mangroves swathes and threatened the firefly colony and other marine life in Kuala Selangor. Over the years, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has been objecting the development and expansion of shrimp farming in Malaysia as it has...

Issue 41-1 Jan-Feb 2011

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U N C O M M O N E X P O S E S , V I E W S & W I S D O M Bimonthly Paper of Consumers Association of Penang We have stories which you will not find in other papers -- hard-hitting stuff with no holds barred, for we name the brands, companies or people in our exposes, unlike the commercial papers which are dependent on companies for their advertisements or are owned by poltical...

Revoke approval for field trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

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CAP and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) call upon the National Biosafety Board (NBB) to revoke the approval given to the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) in October 2010 to release genetically modified (GM) male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for the purpose of a field experiment. The applicant and implementer of the field trial is the IMR which had developed the GM mosquitoes in a joint research with...

Electricity theft and unfair Power Purchase Agreements drain revenue

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Electricity theft is costing the national utility company, Tenaga National Bhd (TNB) nearly RM500 million annually. Over and above all this, TNB has already parted with an estimated RM78.3b of its revenue to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) over the last ten years. Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP), is concerned that eventually consumers will have to suffer from exorbitant tariff...

Time is running out for the birds!

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Massive clearing of greens and the relentless chopping of trees to make space for frenzied development for hideous concrete structures have taken a toll on birds. Much of the areas that are now urban centres, agricultural and industrial areas used to be wetlands, forests and other habitats for birds. Humans, principally developers are ignorant of the fact that trees provide birds with food,...

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