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Year: 2019

Year: 2019

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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Developers turn state’s low cost housing policy into a charade

admin September 5, 2019 0 Comments
CAP fully supports the Penang state government's 30% compliance clause imposed on housing developers. Under this clause, 30% of the housing units built by developers have to be of the low-cost (RM42,000) and low medium cost (RM72,500) types. However, the state leaves it to the developers to do the sales of these units and it keeps a blind eye to the fact that developers are not selling the units...
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CAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Malaysia’s poverty scandal

admin September 3, 2019 0 Comments
Last week U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, announced that Malaysia had been fudging its poverty measurement and that it’s poverty rate is much higher than official reports. Instead of an official poverty rate of 0.4%, Malaysia’s real poverty rate is at an estimated 15%. What it means is that Government policies of the recent past have not been...
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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GRANITO STATE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (SCI) MUST BE TRANSLATED INTO ACTION BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

admin August 30, 2019 0 Comments
The recommendations of the State Commission of Inquiry (SCI) on the Granito tragedy in Tanjung Bungah that led to the deaths of 11 workers on 21 October 2017, must be urgently translated into action and given effect by all the relevant government agencies. This has to be done in order to avert future tragedies related to hill-site and hillslope developments, not only in Penang but throughout the...
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Tackling the Diminishing of Tigers

admin August 30, 2019 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is heartened to learn of the Government’s commitment to battle poaching by increasing manpower through a special battalion assigned to aid the Wildlife Department in the patrol of the country’s jungles. The number of wild tigers estimated to be left is only about 250. This is alarming.  All efforts in the past are not working to save the tigers.  At best they...
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Food Outlets That Charge For Plain Water Are Totally Unjustified!!

admin August 30, 2019 0 Comments
According to a survey carried out by the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP)  the price of plain water sold at food outlets such as restaurants and food stalls are exorbitant. The price survey at restaurants and food stalls in Penang found that the traders were selling a glass of warm water for RM 0.40 to RM 1.20. It costs a restaurant only 85 cents per 1,000 litres of water.  Even if a...
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Tackling the diminishing of tigers

Admin August 28, 2019 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is heartened to learn of the Government’s commitment to battle poaching by increasing manpower through a special battalion assigned to aid the Wildlife Department in the patrol of the country’s jungles. The number of wild tigers estimated to be left is only about 250. This is alarming.  All efforts in the past are not working to save the tigers.  At best they...
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What happened with the Penang Smart Parking?

admin August 23, 2019 0 Comments
Both the Penang Island and Seberang Perai City Councils, and the company HeiTech Padu Bhd (HeiTech) are answerable to taxpayers because of the seriousness of the multimillion Ringgit ‘glitch’ regarding installation of sensors on 647 council parking lots in Penang. It is more than a ‘glitch’ because out of the 647 sensors, only 30 (4.6%) had been installed. The company had failed to...
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Serious concerns and unanswered questions over Lynas operations renewal

admin August 16, 2019 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) and the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) voice our serious concerns over the Pakatan Harapan government’s decision to allow Lynas to continue its operations for another six months and for its radioactive wastes to remain in the country. This means that once again, another toxic legacy is being created for future generations to suffer, in addition to the existing...
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