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Month: November 2014

Month: November 2014

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Are you Eating Plastic?

admin November 11, 2014 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) cautions consumers from consuming food cooked using plastic ladles and spoons or hot food stored in plastic containers. From a public health perspective, heated plastic is an unnecessary source of exposure to harmful elements and stringent measures must be taken to prevent it. The use of plastics has increased exponentially. Global plastics...
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Do away with fuel subsidy for good

admin November 5, 2014 0 Comments
The inescapable fact is that fuel subsidy will eventually have to be scrapped as it is economically untenable in the long run. The question is when? Our answer is now is the right time as crude oil price is tumbling. The government recently announced that it in mid-2015, it will be implementing a new petrol subsidy rationalization programme as part of its plan to eventually scrap fuel subsidy....
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Outdoor advertisements are ugly, unsightly and unbearable

admin November 4, 2014 0 Comments
Commercial outdoor advertisements have increased in numbers, size and variety in all our towns, cities and even along highways, over the years. They appear in the form of billboards, banners and streamers. Technology has made possible outdoor advertisements which are larger, more colourful, realistic, attractive, and even with animation. The main purpose of commercial outdoor advertisements is...
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SAM urges stringent action on polluters of Sungai Rui, Perak

admin November 4, 2014 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) has urged the Department of Environment (DOE) of Perak to investigate and take stern action against those responsible in polluting Sungai Rui, near Gerik recently. In addition to the stringent action, the party responsible for committing the offence should also be subject to heavy penalties, commensurate with the adverse effects to the environment and the death of fish...
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