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Month: May 2021

Month: May 2021

 Quitters are winners

Admin May 31, 2021 0 Comments
In conjunction with this year’s World No Tobacco Day theme “Commit to quit”, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges: > Smokers and vapers quit their habit, not only because of the money they save but also not to jeopardise their health. The people should not let the tobacco industry use them as pawns to advance their business interests. > The government should not entertain...
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Time to reduce water wastage to reduce painful water bills

Admin May 29, 2021 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) says that it is time to reduce water wastage, not only to trim water bills but also to conserve our limited water resources. The primary reason is because Penangites have been over consuming processed water which is becoming a precious commodity. While the water catchment area is only 6 per cent of the land area of the state, the population of the state...
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Historic victory: Judge forces Shell to drastically reduce CO2 emissions

Admin May 27, 2021 0 Comments
Friends of the Earth wins climate case against Shell The Hague, 26 May 2021 - For the first time in history, a judge has held a corporation liable for causing dangerous climate change. Today, as a result of legal action brought by Friends of the Earth Netherlands (Milieudefensie) together with 17,000 co-plaintiffs and six other organisations1 the court in The Hague ruled that Shell must reduce...
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CAP: Accelerate laws to eliminate lead in paints

Admin May 27, 2021 0 Comments
Thirty years ago the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) made a call to the government to promulgate laws to eliminate lead in paints. Till today, we still find lead in our paints. In 1992, we found seven out of nine enamel paints tested to contain lead above 600 parts per million (ppm). The highest amount of lead in that study was 11,700 ppm. In 2016, a total of 39 samples of enamel...
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Ensure Covid-19 vaccination hotline is speedy and effective

Admin May 25, 2021 0 Comments
On 23 May 2021 registration for the second round of opt-in AstraZeneca vaccination began for those aged 60 and above residing in the states of Penang, Johor, Selangor, Sarawak, and the W.P. Kuala Lumpur. This round of volunteer AstraZeneca vaccination seems to have come in a timely manner (even though only strictly for those aged 60 and above, at the moment) as 23 May also marked the highest...
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Stop the culling of wildlife

Admin May 24, 2021 0 Comments
Sahabat Alam Malaysia is deeply shocked and disturbed by the recent shooting of a family of 20 dusky langurs (Trachypithecus obscurus) in Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan on 20 May 2021 by the Negeri Sembilan Jabatan Perhilitan (wildlife department). SAM was alerted to a social media post uploaded by a person named Nurul Azreen Sultan about this incident that went viral bringing attention to the...
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Authorities should ensure private institutions comply with accreditation terms and conditions

Admin May 22, 2021 0 Comments
The Consumer’s Association of Penang (CAP) was surprised to see Lim Kok Wing University’s advertorial for their May 2021 intake in an online news portal just a few days after it was brought to light that the MQA accreditation for 8 of their programmes had been revoked. The advertorial stated that the university had 1000 scholarship to give to qualified students. Is this supposed to entice...
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Urgent need for medicines to treat COVID-19 – A comprehensive waiver is needed

Admin May 21, 2021 0 Comments
  We the undersigned organisations and patient advocacy groups strongly welcome YAB Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s keynote address at the Nikkei 26th International Conference on The Future of Asia on 20 May 2021. We applaud him for this transformative call: “To prepare for a long century of recurring health emergencies – the temporary IP suspension must give way to a total transformation...
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Offer amnesty and vaccinate elderly residents in unlicensed old folks’ homes

Admin May 21, 2021 0 Comments
In dire times like these, the government should grant amnesty to unlicensed old folks’ homes for every employee and resident access to Covid-19 vaccination. The registered ones are licensed by various authorities, such as local governments. It is shocking that out of the 1,300 unlicensed facilities, only about 100 of them have their staff and residents registered for vaccination, constituting...
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LACK OF POLICY COHERENCE IN PROTECTING BIODIVERSITY

Admin May 21, 2021 0 Comments
  22nd May is the International Day for Biological Diversity. Malaysia, is a party to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and is one of the most megadiverse countries, ranking 12th in the world, according to the National Biodiversity Index, that is based on estimates of the country’s richness and endemism in relation to some classes of plants and animals. If we are proud of this...
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