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Month: May 2025

Month: May 2025

Don’t trade away Malaysians’ access to affordable medicines

Lai Cheng May 7, 2025 0 Comments
In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff wars and growing global trade volatility, countries across the Global South, Malaysia included, have turned to free trade agreements (FTAs) to diversify markets and reduce economic risk. During the Special Parliamentary Session to discuss the US tariffs on 5th May, Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced that Malaysia has...
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COPENHAGEN SHOWS CAR-FREE CITIES ARE POSSIBLE

Lai Cheng May 6, 2025 0 Comments
Car-free initiatives are often disregarded as utopian and difficult to implement on any meaningful scale. Critics will say they’re only good for small towns. If that’s the case, somebody should tell Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Oslo, whose largely car-free centres prove that with proper planning, education, and infrastructure, car-free cities are indeed very possible and functional. Source:...
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ARE YOU USING TOO MUCH TOOTHPASTE?

Lai Cheng May 5, 2025 0 Comments
Brushing your teeth? You don’t need to squeeze a ribbon of toothpaste along the length of your toothbrush, just a pea-sized amount is plenty. Young children under 3 should use even less, about the size of a rice grain. According to the Australian Dental Association, less is more for both adults and children when it comes to brushing your pearly whites. Most toothpastes contain fluoride, a...
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THE BEAUTY OF BEING HUMBLE

Lai Cheng May 5, 2025 0 Comments
Humility is a virtue encouraged in most world cultures. Confucius, a 5th-century BCE Chinese thinker, one of the world’s greatest philosophers, taught that: “Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues." Distinguished world poet T.S. Eliot once said, "The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility." What does it take to be humble? Humility is a lack of pride, arrogance,...
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Southeast Asian Farmers’ Groups Reject Foreign Influence in Plant Variety Protection Discussions

Lai Cheng May 2, 2025 0 Comments
Press Release   Davao, Philippines – 2 May 2025 – Farmers' groups across Southeast Asia today express their strong rejection of the ongoing involvement of government officials from our nations in the East Asia Plant Variety Protection Forum (EAPVPF), facilitated by the UPOV (International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants) Secretariat and heavily sponsored by Japan. We,...
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Consumer Groups Support Medicine Price Display Law: Transparency for the People, Upholding Consumer Rights

Lai Cheng May 2, 2025 0 Comments
Malaysian consumer groups welcome the enforcement of the medicine price display law, effective 1st May 2025, as a landmark step towards greater transparency, accountability, and consumer empowerment in healthcare. This new regulation, known as the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering (Price Marking for Drug) Order 2025 and gazetted under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011, requires...
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CAP: Bottled water does more harm than good

Lai Cheng May 1, 2025 0 Comments
An advertised promise for safer, purer and healthier water has led Malaysians to consume an average of 150 litres of bottled water annually. Convenience, health considerations and a lack of trust in municipal tap water quality, have propelled this trend. Over the past two decades, bottled water has become a part of every social function. Gone are the days when water was served from a jug. But in...
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