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Month: November 2025

Residents Submit Memo to Penang State Assembly Urging Rejection of Reclamation off Karpal Singh Drive

George Town, PENANG (20 November 2025) – Residents of Bandar Sri Pinang and the surrounding neighbourhoods, together with the Protect Karpal Singh Drive Action Committee (ProtectKarpal), today submitted a formal memorandum to both the Chief Minister of Penang and the Leader of the Opposition at the Penang State Assembly, calling for the rejection of the proposed reclamation and landfill...
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Penang Suya Meiyarivagam (PSM) Annual Awareness Programme 2025: COOLING THE BODY NATURALLY

On the 16th of November 2025, Penang Suya Meiyarivagam (PSM) conducted its annual event for parents and volunteers at Sri Balathandayutabani Temple, Penang. The programme was attended by approximately 185 participants. The day was observed as Self-Achievement Day. As part of the event, an awareness session on energy conservation and energy efficiency was held, with emphasis on lifestyle changes...
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50,000 March in Brazil to Celebrate Death of Fossil Fuel Industry at COP30

“It is time to put these old fuels where they belong—in the ground of history.” An estimated 50,000 people took to the streets of Belém do Pará, Brazil, on Saturday to demonstrate outside the halls of the United Nations annual climate summit, holding a “Great People’s March” and makeshift “Funeral for Fossil Fuels” as they demanded a just transition toward a more renewable...
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Play Sand Products Containing Asbestos Recalled in Australia and New Zealand

Last November 12, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published a recall notice from supplier Educational Colours regarding play sand products that were found to contain tremolite asbestos, a naturally occurring asbestos. The products are used by children for art and craft activities or sensory play. “The products may cause a risk to health,” the ACCC warned, advising...
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SILENT BRAIN HACKER

Why We Need to Periodically Disconnect from Our Phones A recent study suggests that taking a 3-day break from using a smartphone can help reset the brain of someone addicted to it. Excessive phone use, especially social media and constant notifications, can overstimulate the brain’s reward system, leading to dependency similar to other forms of addiction. This overuse often results in anxiety,...
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WHY NATURE CONSERVATION MATTERS

It takes only minutes to cut down a forest, drain a wetland, or clear a grassland. But restoring what was lost isn’t measured in days or months – it’s measured in decades, sometimes centuries. A tree can be felled in seconds, but a healthy mature forest takes generations to grow. Wildlife displaced today may never return. Soil that’s stripped or compacted can take a lifetime to heal....
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CAP’s Pioneering Community and Consumer Work – in a Book

People With A Purpose is a book on CAP’s activities and work on community issues and consumer-related matters in the early years. Authored by Troth and Dexter Tiranti, members of the editorial team of the New Internationalist magazine – who described CAP as “one of the country’s highly impressive people’s organisations” – it documents CAP’s important purpose of looking into...
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Microorganisms: The Invisible Forces Sustaining Life and the Climate

Most people, apart from those in the scientific community, have very limited knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that microorganisms play in enabling life on Earth to exist. Unlike other living things that can be seen and heard, microorganisms are invisible to the naked eye. As the earliest forms of life, they are found everywhere on the planet, from the frozen reaches of the Arctic...
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Heavy Drinking Linked to Deadlier Brain Haemorrhages

It’s long been known that heavy drinking raises blood pressure and damages the liver. But a new study suggests it may also deal a devastating blow to the brain – causing life-threatening haemorrhagic strokes. The study, published November 5 in Neurology, found that people who consumed 3 or more alcoholic drinks a day experienced bleeding strokes inside the brain an average of 11 years...
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FLOATING SCHOOLS Bring Education to Remote Areas

In parts of the Philippines, where children once risked their lives crossing rough waters just to reach school, teachers have turned the tide – quite literally. Floating schools and boat classrooms are now bringing education straight to remote island and coastal communities. Here’s how it works. In Puerto Galera (Mindoro), the Sea Adventure School sails to coastal villages, teaching marine...
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