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Year: 2023

Year: 2023

DIGITAL AMNESIA – Excessive use of mobile phone could lead to memory loss

Lai Cheng November 24, 2023 0 Comments
Smartphone addiction could impair our brain’s ability to retain new information and form new memories, says an article in Down to Earth (18 September 2018). Excessive use of mobile phones can cause memory loss in humans. When cyber security company Kaspersky Lab conducted a survey of 6,000 mobile phone users, it found that 71% of them can’t remember the phone numbers of their children and...
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CAP’s Energy Conservation & Efficiency Programme at SJKT Subramaniya Barathee

Lai Cheng November 24, 2023 0 Comments
Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) went to SJKT Subramaniya Barathee on 22 November 2023 to give a talk on Energy Conservation and Energy Efficiency. About 100 primary school students participated in the talk. Saraswathi Devi Odian, an education officer from CAP, was the speaker for this Energy Conservation and Energy Efficiency session. The students showed a keen interest in the topic and...
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Richest 1% account for more carbon emissions than poorest 66%, report says

Lai Cheng November 23, 2023 0 Comments
‘Polluter elite’ are plundering the planet to point of destruction, says Oxfam after comprehensive study of climate inequality The richest 1% of humanity is responsible for more carbon emissions than the poorest 66%, with dire consequences for vulnerable communities and global efforts to tackle the climate emergency, a report says. The most comprehensive study of global climate inequality...
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Lawyers: Government can go ahead with the GEG Bill

Lai Cheng November 23, 2023 0 Comments
Despite the Attorney General’s view that the Generational Endgame (GEG) provision in the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill 2023 is unconstitutional, the government can still go ahead with the Bill, say lawyers. They say the government is not bound to follow Attorney General Datuk Ahmad Terrirudin Mohd Salleh’s view, which sees the age-based prohibition as unconstitutional as...
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Rising trend of animal abuse

Lai Cheng November 23, 2023 0 Comments
The alarming trend of animal abuse in the country is of great concern and needs urgent action to stop it. According to Penang Veterinary Services Department chief Dr Saira Banu, cases of cat and dog abuse are on the rise in Penang. Abuse may take many different forms such as beating, scalding, suffocating, bestiality, poisoning, shooting, bashing, starving mutilation, and animal...
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Call for anti-smoking Bill gets louder

Lai Cheng November 22, 2023 0 Comments
The call to expedite the anti-smoking Bill has grown in light of the rising trend of teenagers vaping. Malaysian Council for Tobacco Control Council secretary-general Muhammad Sha’ani Abdullah said vape devices are too convenient to be used by the public and called for them to be urgently addressed by passing the Control of Smoking Products for Public Health Bill 2023. “Using a vape device...
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Call for more action to address vaping in schools

Lai Cheng November 22, 2023 0 Comments
As advocates maintain their calls for nicotine and vape liquid to be relisted under the Health Ministry’s Poisons List, they are also urging for more action to address vaping in schools. Parent Action Group for Education (PAGE) chairman Datin Noor Azimah Abdul Rahim said vaping should be treated similarly to smoking cigarettes in schools. “It is a surprise that although vaping has been in...
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Eczema Cream Sold in Malaysia Found to Contain Over 430 Times the Allowed Limits of Arsenic, Singapore Health Authorities Warn

Lai Cheng November 22, 2023 0 Comments
An eczema cream sold on a retail website based in Malaysia was found to have contained more than 430 times the allowed limits of arsenic, and Singapore health authorities have warned users there to see a doctor "as soon as possible". The cream, Euzema Confidence Revival Cream, was among 4 products that were found to contain potent or banned ingredients, said the Health Sciences Authority (HSA)...
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Penalise those responsible for damaging roads

Lai Cheng November 22, 2023 0 Comments
In early May 2023, a group of lorry owners urged the Transport Ministry to intervene because they claimed that the Road Transport Department (JPJ) was about to forfeit the ownership of their vehicles. They should know better that their vehicles are not supposed to be overloaded under the law which has been around for more than two decades. There are a variety of reasons why a road appears to be...
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GLOBAL PLASTICS TREATY (INC3)

Lai Cheng November 21, 2023 0 Comments
Efforts to Move Forward Stalled by Fossil Fuel Producers “Despite agreement amongst nearly all states of the urgency to protect human health from toxic chemicals in plastics, major fossil fuel producers stalled efforts to move forward in an efficient manner, claiming that plastics production has nothing to do with plastic pollution.”    
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