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Month: April 2025

Month: April 2025

THE BUYING TRAP: How We Become Mindless Consumers

Lai Cheng April 8, 2025 0 Comments
There are stealthy societal and marketplace pressures that make us unhappy – without us realising it. Manufactures for example, create new products that we don't really need so that we become addicted to the useless, and become trapped in consumerism. If you feel less, they can sell you more. In Reasons to Stay Alive, a book about depression and how to overcome it, author Matt Haig brilliantly...
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Wildlife Smuggling at KLIA: A National Embarrassment

Lai Cheng April 8, 2025 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is alarmed by yet another case of wildlife smuggling involving exotic species through Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), which remains a key transit point for traffickers in the booming illegal wildlife trade. In early March, two smugglers boarded a Malaysia Airlines flight to Chennai with wildlife concealed in a suitcase, passing undetected...
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CAP Urges Ban on Insurance Promotion in Banks

Lai Cheng April 7, 2025 0 Comments
The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) to prohibit financial institutions from promoting any form of insurance, particularly investment-linked insurance, within their premises. We have received complaints that bank officers approached customers inside bank premises to promote investment-linked insurance as a ‘better investment option offering higher returns...
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NO SUCH THING AS “AWAY”

Lai Cheng April 7, 2025 0 Comments
Our trash doesn’t simply vanish when we throw it out. “There is no such thing as ‘away’,” Annie Leonard, former executive director of Greenpeace USA, says in her book, The Story of Stuff. “When we throw anything away, it must go somewhere.” It ends up in a landfill, incinerator, or the environment.    
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SAY NO TO HATE

Lai Cheng April 7, 2025 0 Comments
Hate speech is rising around the world. Hate speech incites violence and intolerance. The devastating effect of hatred is sadly nothing new. However, its scale and impact are now amplified by new communications technologies. Hate speech – including online – has become one of the most common ways of spreading divisive rhetoric on a global scale, threatening peace around the world. We all have...
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WE HAVE A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PEACE & SUSTAINABILITY

Lai Cheng April 5, 2025 0 Comments
Today (April 5) is the International Day of Conscience, a day that serves to remind us of the profound impact that ethical awareness and moral responsibility can have on global peace and harmony. It’s a day for us to reflect on the importance of conscience in shaping a more compassionate and just society. Conscience is a moral insight that guides our conduct or intentions with a feeling or...
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GREEN ACTION WEEK

Lai Cheng April 4, 2025 0 Comments
Building a Sharing Community for Sustainable Consumption Green Action Week is a global campaign that unites communities for the well-being of both people and the planet. The campaign builds a sharing community as a powerful driver of sustainable consumption. By sharing knowledge, skills, resources, creative ideas, and more participants help build a culture of sustainability and circular systems...
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Open Letter to UN-HABITAT: Promote Zero Waste, Not Waste Burning!

Lai Cheng April 3, 2025 0 Comments
GAIA and over 100 civil society groups across five continents (including Consumers’ Association of Penang and Sahabat Alam Malaysia) are calling on UN-HABITAT to stop promoting "waste-to-energy" incineration—a harmful, outdated, and unjust approach to waste management. Incineration is NOT sustainable. It harms public health, deepens environmental injustices, and undermines real climate...
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CREATE A GOOD DAY, LIVE HAPPIER

Lai Cheng April 3, 2025 0 Comments
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions. One of the world’s greatest thinkers Aristotle, taught this: "Happiness depends upon ourselves." You are the only one who can make your life happier – and better. Live each day to the fullest. Wake up early, enjoy nature, and live in the moment. To live a happier and healthy life, eat nourishing food, get enough sleep, be...
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