December 2018 – Consumers Association Penang

Does Taiping Fulfil Sustainable Town Criteria?

admin December 31, 2018 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) questioned Green Destinations’ criteria for evaluation and giving recognition to Taiping as one of the Sustainable Destinations Top 100 of 2018. Based on SAM’s recent survey around Taiping town, we found that the implementation of several development activities was not environmentally friendly nor sustainable especially development on 25° slopes....

MoH Lets Horse Bolt Before Closing The Gate

admin December 27, 2018 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked and disappointed that the Malaysian Health Ministry (MoH) allows the sale of heat-not-burn (HNB) tobacco product devices and exempted them from pictorial health warning (PHW). It is puzzling why MoH is confused with the Control of Tobacco Product (our italics) Regulations (CTPR), thinking that it regulates only shredded tobacco rolled in...

Review Procedure For Admission Of Under 6 Year Olds To Standard 1

admin December 23, 2018 0 Comments

Children must have completed 6 years of age on 1st January of the year they are entering school. However, since 2003 an exception is given to children who are up to two weeks younger (born 2nd to 15 January) if they have reached the “mental and reading age” of 6 year olds. These 2-weeks younger children are required to go through a very stressful evaluation process (saringan). The first...

Issue 48-6 November-December 2018

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We have stories which you will not find in other papers -- hard-hitting stuff with no holds barred, for we name the brands, companies or people in our exposes, unlike the commercial papers which are dependent on companies for their advertisements or are owned by political parties. You can expect our views and perspectives to be different, for we are on the side of consumers.

Debunking the ‘Heat-Not-Burn Tobacco Product’ Myths

admin December 20, 2018 0 Comments

In response to Philip Morris (M) Sdn Bhd (PMM)’s recent media release, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) wishes to rebut the claims. In the opening statement PMM stated that “we would like to stress that our smoke-free products are intended to be better alternatives for adult smokers who can’t or don’t want to quit”. We ought to ask why smokers are unable to quit. The answer...

Ban Waste Incineration

admin December 18, 2018 0 Comments

The Malaysian government must enact a regulation to ban all forms of waste incineration to keep out incinerators, their promoters and peddlers from Malaysia. Instead, we need policies and actions towards Zero Waste and waste reduction programmes. Currently among the most aggressively promoted incinerators are “waste-to-energy” facilities. Last week it was announced that two waste-to-energy...

Spend less on school supplies

admin December 14, 2018 0 Comments

An estimated 5 million students (from pre-school to secondary school) are to splurge on new school uniform and other items when school reopens next year, parents could easily spent more than RM2 billion just for this period alone. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges parents not to buy entirely new sets of uniform and other school supplies when school reopens if the existing uniform...

Flash floods threaten 500 in Jeniang

admin December 12, 2018 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls for the Kedah Government and the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (JPS) to investigate and take immediate action to solve flash flood problems that is being faced by more than 500 residents of Kuala Muda district at Jeniang. The problem involving Kampung Batu 8, 9 and 10 has been happening since 2014 but till now there has been no...

Government must stand firm in asking Lynas to ship out all its radioactive and hazardous wastes

admin December 10, 2018 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia and the Consumers Association of Penang support the decision of the government to ask the Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd to remove and dispose of its accumulated 451,464 metric tonnes of radioactive waste. In our view the radioactive waste should be exported by Lynas to Australia because the raw materials that are processed into rare earth originates in Australia. We also note that...

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Month: December 2018