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Month: December 2017

Month: December 2017

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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