2017 – Consumers Association Penang

Make Public State Action Plan on Paired Road Projects

admin December 29, 2017 0 Comments

The Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) deeply regrets the approval by the Department of Environment (DOE) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the three paired road projects on 10 November this year. TBRA has learnt about this from the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) who were informed about the EIA approval by the DOE.We also have learnt that the Penang State...

BE PRUDENT IN SPENDING ON SCHOOL UNIFORMS

admin December 28, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is very concerned not only about the rapid increase in the prices of school supplies but how parents tend to spoil their children by buying them new sets of uniform and other school supplies when school reopens. Parents should be prudent with their spending on school items, even more so with the prices of particularly school uniforms having increased...

Objection of Clearcut Logging Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve

admin December 21, 2017 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) objects to clear cut logging of trees covering 500 hectares in parts of Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve (Compartments 12, 13, 14 & 15 of HS Bukit Enggang) for the purpose of establishing a forest plantation (monoculture cultivation in a Permanent Reserved Forest). The extractive activity (logging) by uncontrolled clear cutting of original forest trees had caused...

TABUNG HAJI SHOULD HANDLE UMRAH MATTERS

admin December 19, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is very disappointed with the Imams (Integrated Manasik Monitoring System) issue and how it has been handled. The Umrah Regulatory Management Council claimed that Imams was put in place to stop the ever increasing number of Umrah scams that are happening every year. Why was it necessary to create a system that was going to be run by a third party...

A MUCH AWAITED STEP FORWARD FOR MAVCOM

admin December 7, 2017 0 Comments

Kudos to the Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom) for successfully putting together their much awaited Airport Quality of Service framework which will be implemented by the third quarter of 2018, completing in end 2019. It is timely for the implementation of the four service quality categories comprising i) passenger comfort and facilities; ii) operator and staff facilities; iii) queuing times;...

Need to review Penang State Enactment on State Park and Botanic Gardens

admin December 6, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang, while welcoming the move to create a statutory corporation for managing State Parks, including the Penang Botanical Gardens, is disappointed that there was no public consultation on the provisions contained in the law establishing the Corporation. The Bill was rushed through and adopted by the State Assembly without sufficient discussion. After the first...

MUCH NEEDED PAINFUL CLAMPING AND TOWING

admin November 23, 2017 0 Comments

Kudos to the Penang Island City Council (MBPP) and the Penang Island Mayor Dato’ Maimunah Mohd Sharif in enforcing the clamping and towing of illegally parked vehicles. This is in view of the recent case where a lady with her disabled mother’s car was clamped in Jalan Macalister. MBPP enforcement officers acted even-handedly because it is common to find that cars without OKU stickers taking...

ONE MONTH AFTER THE LEMBAH PERMAI LANDSLIDE

admin November 21, 2017 0 Comments

The last of the 11 victims was retrieved two days after a landslide buried construction site workers at Lorong Lembah Permai 3 in Tanjong Bungah on 21 October 2017. The majority of the victims were from Bangladesh. Out of that official number of victims, 4 were from Bangladesh, 3 from Myanmar, 2 from Indonesia, and 1 each from Pakistan and Malaysian. Three other workers — an Indonesian, a...

LUXURIOUS PROJECTS FREEZE: CAP SAID IT 29 YEARS AGO

admin November 21, 2017 0 Comments

The Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani had announced that the government is finally freezing luxury property developments from 1 November 2017 because of a glut in this sector. The freeze will affect high-rise condominiums, shopping malls, commercial units, including those that are worth more than RM1 million. CAP wants to reiterate that we had warned of this scenario 28 years...

GOVERNMENT MUST MAKE PERSONAL INFORMATION DATABASES SAFE

admin November 20, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked that our personal information databases are unsafe, seen from the barrage of news concerning “personal data theft” and “illegal sales of personal data” these last few weeks. We are concerned whether our country is prepared for the digital economy. The majority of our transactions today are done online. The push towards the digital...

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Year: 2017