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Month: September 2019

Month: September 2019

Extra profit for banks from unfair policies

Admin September 24, 2019 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang is completely against banks attempting to profit more than they already do from implementing unfair policies. We are against the RM0.50 CRM (cash recycling machine) and CQM (cheque deposit machine) transaction fee and the RM2.00 for counter transactions fee. It has been reported that certain banks have announced beginning 1st October 2019 they will be...
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The need for a leading Cardiothoracic Surgery Centre for the Northern Region

admin September 20, 2019 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang appeals to the Ministry of Health to upgrade the Penang General Hospital to make it the leading centre for Cardiothoracic Surgery for the Northern region. The department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Penang General Hospital has been operational since 1995 and provides critical care and treatment to thousands of patients from the Northern region. It has...
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PENANG’S LOW-COST HOUSING SCAM

Admin September 18, 2019 0 Comments
CAP refers to the recent claim by the Penang Ex-Co for housing and local government YB Jagdeep Singh Deo that the renovation packages are voluntary. Responding to recent complaints, he retorted that "if the buyer wants an empty unit, with absolutely nothing, and wants to take his own mattress and one pillow to go and sleep there, then the developer must sell it to them at either RM42,000 or...
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Police involvement  in protecting wildlife is much needed

admin September 18, 2019 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) commends the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador for his duty of care and national responsibility towards the protection of our nation’s wildlife.  He has made positive statements to combat the smuggling and trafficking scourge with the mobilisation of air, marine and land units to assist the Wildlife Department in thwarting wildlife...
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ASEAN must step up action to halt Indonesian forest fires

admin September 13, 2019 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) welcomes the move by the Malaysian Prime Minister in reaching out to his Indonesian counterpart in addressing the increasing transboundary haze problem which is seriously affecting Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. We sincerely hope that urgent measures will be taken by the Indonesian authorities to halt the forest fires stemming from Indonesia, as monitoring...
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Losing sharks and rays will have unintended consequences  

Admin September 12, 2019 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is devastated to learn that Malaysia had voted against the protection of shark species at risk of extinction.  The fate of the world’s sharks is in the hands of the top 20 shark catchers, Malaysia included, many of whom have failed to demonstrate what they are doing to save these imperiled species. They need to take action to stop the decline in shark populations...
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COURT DECISION ON GRANITO PROJECT MUST BE REVIEWED

Admin September 12, 2019 0 Comments
The Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) calls on the Attorney General (AG) to review and file an appeal over the decision of the Sessions Court in Penang yesterday, where the consultant engineer and the engineering firm involved in the fatal landslide tragedy in Tanjung Bungah in October 2017 were each fined RM40,000. According to media reports, the consultant engineer, Khoo Koon Tai, and...
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CAP Decries the Institutional Blindness to Poverty and Calls for Urgent RCI

Admin September 11, 2019 0 Comments
CAP is pleased to note that senior parliamentarian YB Lim Kit Siang has supported CAP’s call on 3 September 2019 for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to be formed to address the poverty scandal highlighted by UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston. Ever since Professor Alston’s expose that our poverty rate is a shocking 15% or higher, information...
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CAP Decries the Institutional Blindness to Poverty and Calls for Urgent RCI

admin September 11, 2019 0 Comments
CAP is pleased to note that senior parliamentarian YB Lim Kit Siang has supported CAP’s call on 3 September 2019 for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to be formed to address the poverty scandal highlighted by UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston. Ever since Professor Alston’s expose that our poverty rate is a shocking 15% or higher, information...
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Are we having a ‘fire-sale’?

admin September 9, 2019 0 Comments
With the anti-government protest going on in Hong Kong, Malaysian developers are making a beeline to attract Hong Kong investors to buy properties here. This may ease the overhang in the local property market but it is not going to solve housing problems faced by our people. Penang, Selangor, and Johor have set the highest minimum property prices for foreigners to acquire properties. For Selangor...
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