November 2017 – Consumers Association Penang

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

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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...

STOP EXPORTS TO SUSTAIN THE PRICE OF VEGETABLES AND FISH

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The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-Operatives and Consumerism and Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (FAMA) to take immediate steps to bring down the prices of vegetables, fruits, and fish that have increased up to 300% in the past one week. It was reported on 15 November 2017 that the rise in prices and shortages of vegetables and fish...

Action needed now on antibiotic resistance

admin November 16, 2017 0 Comments

The world is marking World Antibiotics Awareness Week on 13-19 November. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the world is running out of new antibiotics to fight the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. Malaysia is also affected and must take urgent action on this threat. In the words of the Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom, Professor Dame Sally Davies, ‘the...

CAP: Stop becoming a nation of diabetics

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CAP President pointing out major complications of diabetes. The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the Ministry of Health to take drastic action to curb the rising number of diabetics in the country. In Malaysia in spite of many campaigns against diabetes its prevalence especially that of Type 2 has increased to epidemic proportions? It is estimated there are 4.2 million diabetics,...

Unhealthy Living Makes Malaysia No. 1 in Diabetes Prevalence in ASEAN

admin November 14, 2017 0 Comments

Today November 14 is World Diabetes Day, and on this occasion, the Consumers Association of Penang calls on consumers to practice healthy lifestyle to reduce the risk of diabetes Currently it is estimated that there are 3.5 million diabetics in Malaysia. Our diabetes prevalence is the highest in ASEAN. Diabetes prevalence in Malaysia was only 1-2% in 1960. It has skyrocketed to 17.5% this year....

Malaysia should not give in to a new TPP

admin November 9, 2017 0 Comments

In the next few days, the Prime Minister and the Minister of Trade and Industry will be making a major decision on behalf of Malaysia on whether to join other countries to revive and sign a new Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) without the United States. They will be at a meeting in Danang, Vietnam, where the remaining 11 TPP countries (including Malaysia) are meeting to agree to a new...

FROM CRANES TO PILING RIGS

admin November 8, 2017 0 Comments

Each time an incident has occurred at a construction site and it resulted in the death of one or more innocent lives, The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) called on the government to conduct a full inquiry into the operations of the Department of Safety and Health’s (DOSH) operations; but unfortunately, it seems to have fallen on deaf ears. We are iterating that call on account of the...

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Month: November 2017