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Year: 2025

Year: 2025

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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6 FOODS THAT NOURISH AND PROTECT YOUR BODY

Lai Cheng April 29, 2025 0 Comments
A primarily plant-based diet will activate more than 500 disease-preventing genes and deactivate more than 200 disease-causing genes. Plant foods have the power to switch on the genes that create health and to switch off the genes that create cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and many of the other ailments of civilization. This is what researchers know from over 30 years of clinical research at...
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PLANT A TREE, BUILD A PLANET

Lai Cheng April 29, 2025 0 Comments
It’s not just shade. It’s a birdhouse, a squirrel highway, a pollinator pantry, and an oxygen factory – all in one. From nesting birds to climbing insects, one tree can host hundreds of species. When you plant a tree, you create a living community – and you’re building a planet. – Info and picture from Home & Garden Tips  
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Borneo pygmy elephants must be protected at all costs

Lai Cheng April 28, 2025 0 Comments
The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked and condemns the decapitation of the three pygmy elephants, murdered within three months of one another. It is a difficult time for Sabah because elephant deaths are on the rise, particularly since 2013 when fourteen endangered pygmy elephants were discovered dead under suspicious circumstances in the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve in Sabah....
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KNOW THE SIGNS OF BURNOUT

Lai Cheng April 25, 2025 0 Comments
Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress and overwork. Left unchecked, it can lead to serious physical and mental health problems, impacting performance, relationships, and overall well-being. Burnout doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a gradual process. It can creep up on you, often unnoticed until it's become a significant problem. And the...
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Youth Powered Sustainability Takes Root at Methodist Girls School, Penang

Lai Cheng April 24, 2025 0 Comments
On 9 April 2025, the Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) inspired a group of 65 enthusiastic students of Methodist Girls School in Penang with an engaging energy-saving awareness talk. This initiative aimed to instill a strong sense of responsibility and awareness about energy conservation among the youth. CAP research officer Ung Jun Min led the session, sharing easy-to-follow tips on how...
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