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Year: 2020

Year: 2020

IF WE ARE HAPPY AND CONTENTED, WE WILL BUY LESS

admin August 24, 2020 0 Comments
So advertisers are there to make you discontented and unhappy so that you will part with your hard-earned money and buy more.They create a world of fantasy where everyone is beautiful and smiling (happy?), things will always work out if you buy their products which will fulfil your need for love, status, power, sex -- all the things that promise happiness, but cause unhappiness. They also prey...
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An Addiction to Kill Many Painfully

admin August 21, 2020 0 Comments
Tobacco-related cancers constitute the highest burden among all types of the disease in India. As many as 27 per cent of cancer cases were caused due to tobacco consumption, according to a new report released by the National Cancer Registry of India (NCRI) on August 18, 2020. The cancers of the lungs, mouth, stomach and oesophagus were the most common among males. Cancers of the breast and...
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HOW WE ALL BECAME WESTERN & are LOSING OUR ROOTS

admin August 21, 2020 0 Comments
THE TROJAN HORSES "Our sanctimonious missions of civilization, development, conscientization, modernization, social change, democratization, liberation, social justice, and even of co-operation and international solidarity, are often TROJAN HORSES vis-a-vis the traditions of Africa, Asia and the Americas. It is in this sense that, > in the name of literacy, the oral traditions of the local...
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Need to halt reliance on coal for energy in the interest of climate

admin August 21, 2020 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) refers to Mangai Balasegaram’s article entitled ‘Malaysia needs to stop building coal-fired power plants – here's why’ published in The Star (of 11th August), and wish to express our whole-hearted support on her call. In the interest of climate change, we urge the Malaysian government to halt the country’s reliance on coal for our energy source, and...
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The government has no reason to reduce tobacco tax

admin August 19, 2020 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the government not to entertain any suggestion to reduce tobacco taxes. The authorities must remember that Malaysia is a party to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC), ratifying it in 2005. As such Malaysia should abide by WHO FCTC Article 6 which requires the countries to “implement the simplest and...
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5 to 7 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO GET COVID 19

admin August 18, 2020 0 Comments
A new study has found that teenagers and young adults who smoke or vape have a higher risk of contracting COVID-19 Led by researchers from Stanford University in California, US, the study was published last Tuesday, 11 August, in the Journal of Adolescent Health. They found that teens and young adults who vape are five times more likely to become infected by the coronavirus than those who do...
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Exploitation of forest resources for quarrying activities in the Segari Melintang Forest Reserve is inappropriate and alarming

admin August 18, 2020 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is concerned that the Perak State Authority may approve quarry activities (granite) and laterite mining in an area of land with the status of Permanent Reserved Forest (PRF) in Segari Melintang Forest Reserve (HS Segari Melintang) in the district of Manjung, Perak. In 2017, SAM had voiced our concern when the State Authority had approved quarry...
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We are in a pandemic, ban medical tourism!

admin August 17, 2020 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is appalled by the news that the Penang state was going to allow medical tourism once more despite the increase in Covid-19 cases in Penang and the emergence of various Covid-19clusters in our neighbouring states. It was reported that an Air Asia flight arrived last week, bringing medical tourists from Medan, Indonesia to Penang for treatment. This...
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WORST INVENTION?

admin August 17, 2020 0 Comments
We all clamour for our dream car? A dream turning into a nightmare. Planners and traffic engineers plan our cities to the needs of the private cars. Roads, highways, carparks... their needs become public and subsidised while people cannot house themselves. We are subsidising the rich. We are willing to breathe in the fumes as the cars become the main source of pollution in our cities. The cars...
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2,871-lb MACHINE to carry a 200-lb MAN

admin August 17, 2020 0 Comments
You are using a 2,871-lb (average weight of car) machine to carry a 200-lb man. Is that not ridiculous? The bigger the car, the more ridiculous. "Man on a bicycle can go 3 or 4 times faster than the pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy in the process. He carries 1 gram of his weight over 1 km of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match...
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