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Month: January 2013

Month: January 2013

No to logging in catchment forests

admin January 31, 2013 0 Comments
Friends of Ulu Muda (FOUM), a coalition of concerned Malaysian civil society organisations of which CAP and SAM are members of has called on the Kedah State Government to gazette the Ulu Muda forests as water catchment forests under the National Forestry Act 1984. “There should be no logging of whatever kind in the Ulu Muda forests and its protection should be enhanced by establishing a State...
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Severely punish culprits for carnage of Pygmy elephants

admin January 30, 2013 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) views the death of 10 pygmy elephants at the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve as the worst disaster to have happened in 2013.  Nothing is more poignant than the sight of an elephant calf tugging at its dead mother - a heart wrenching sight that is certain to tug at the heartstrings of even the most hard-hearted person. SAM condemns the killing of the innocent defenseless...
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Solicitors wrongly billing chargors for change of bank names in charge documents

admin January 29, 2013 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang calls on the Malaysian Bar Council to immediately direct its members to refrain from billing charges for preparing Change of Name forms and Vesting Orders for changing bank names in charge documents when discharging properties from banks that have changed names due to mergers. The cost of changing the banks’ names in the charge documents are to be borne by...
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CAP and SAM glad that proposed offshore project has been scrapped

admin January 16, 2013 0 Comments
CAP and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) are very glad that the proposed creation of offshore concrete structures for mixed development slated to be developed on the West Coast of Penang Island has been scrapped. CAP and SAM have been vehemently opposing this project since October 2012.  We had sent our objections to the Penang State Government with preliminary comments based on the proposal paper...
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